NVIDIA/OpenShell
OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #59 of 2,794 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 2%).
4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 218 days ago, with 135 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #99 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 5, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a safe, private runtime environment for autonomous AI agents with sandboxed execution and declarative policy enforcement.
- Ensures data, credential, and infrastructure protection via layered, hot-reloadable YAML policies controlling filesystem, network, and process access.
- Use for securely running AI agents with controlled outbound network and filesystem access in isolated sandboxes.
- Use for managing credential injection and policy-driven inference routing for AI workloads requiring strict privacy and security.
- Use for deploying GPU-accelerated AI agent sandboxes on supported hosts with experimental GPU passthrough support.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents. It provides sandboxed execution environments that protect your data, credentials, and infrastructure — governed by declarative YAML policies that prevent unauthorized file access, data exfiltration, and uncontrolled network activity.
OpenShell is built agent-first. The project ships with agent skills for everything from gateway troubleshooting to policy generation, and we expect contributors to use them.
Alpha software — single-player mode. OpenShell is proof-of-life: one developer, one environment, one gateway. We are building toward multi-tenant enterprise deployments, but the starting point is getting your own environment up and running. Expect rough edges. Bring your agent.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+9,937 stars over 87 days across 35 snapshot days; best day +775 on Oct 23.
Forks
1.8K+744
Open issues
564+155
Compared with peers in Backend
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| akitaonrails/ai-memory | 12.8K | +3.3K | 40 | today |
| shiyu-coder/Kronos | 43.2K | +2.4K | 75 | — |
| NVIDIA/OpenShell | 17.8K | +0 | 75 | 218 days ago |
| Category median | 43.9K | +4.0K | 75 | — |
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