# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025-2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved. # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 name: openshell title: OpenShell adopt-info: openshell summary: Safe, sandboxed runtimes for autonomous AI agents description: | OpenShell provides safe, sandboxed runtimes for autonomous AI agents. It offers a CLI for managing gateways, sandboxes, and providers with policy-enforced egress routing, credential proxying, and privacy-aware profile-backed model-provider access. The OpenShell snap ships a CLI (`openshell`), a terminal UI (`openshell.term`), a standalone policy prover (`openshell.prover`), and a managed gateway daemon (`openshell.user-gateway`). The user gateway is disabled by default so that one selected user can run it. **Setup instructions** 1. Install and start Docker using your preferred package source before installing the OpenShell snap. Use a system package or Docker's package repository. The Docker snap is not currently compatible with OpenShell. Snap Store installations automatically connect the required interfaces. Enable and start the gateway from the single user account that will run it: systemctl --user enable --now snap.openshell.user-gateway.service Do not enable the gateway for multiple users who may be logged in at the same time. Every user gateway binds to 127.0.0.1:17670, so only one can run on the system at a time. Older OpenShell snap revisions could enable the user gateway globally. When upgrading such an installation, remove that global enablement so the gateway does not start automatically for other users: sudo systemctl disable --global snap.openshell.user-gateway.service This does not stop gateways already running in other user sessions. Those users must disable and stop the service from their own sessions. If the OpenShell snap was installed before Docker was running, its user service may have hit the systemd start limit. Resolve this from the affected user's session after Docker is available: systemctl --user reset-failed snap.openshell.user-gateway.service systemctl --user restart snap.openshell.user-gateway.service 2. Register the per-user gateway after it provisions its mTLS credentials: snap services openshell.user-gateway openshell gateway add https://127.0.0.1:17670 --local --name openshell openshell status **Legacy upgrades** Installations upgraded from the former `openshell.gateway` service retain their state through `openshell.system-gateway`. Existing HTTPS registrations continue to work because the endpoint and TLS identity do not change. If this user still has an old HTTP registration, or has not previously been enrolled, wait for `openshell.system-gateway` to be active, copy its client credentials, and register its HTTPS endpoint: snap services openshell.system-gateway d=~/snap/openshell/common/.local/state/openshell/tls mkdir -p -m 700 "$d" "$d/client" sudo install -o "$USER" -g "$(id -gn)" -m 600 \ /var/snap/openshell/common/tls/ca.crt "$d/" sudo install -o "$USER" -g "$(id -gn)" -m 600 \ /var/snap/openshell/common/tls/client/tls.crt "$d/client/" sudo install -o "$USER" -g "$(id -gn)" -m 600 \ /var/snap/openshell/common/tls/client/tls.key "$d/client/" openshell gateway list old_registration="NAME_FROM_GATEWAY_LIST" openshell gateway remove "$old_registration" openshell gateway add https://127.0.0.1:17670 --local --name openshell openshell status The user and system gateways have separate state. See the OpenShell installation guide before changing `gateway-mode`; use `gateway-mode=disable` to stop both services while preserving the current TLS directory. base: core24 grade: stable confinement: strict # The system :docker slot was added in snapd 2.76, so this is the minimum # required version. Snapd 2.77 allowed manual connection to that slot without # snap-declaration overrides from the store, such as when installing a locally- # built snap, but that is not required for installations from the snap store. assumes: [snapd2.76] license: Apache-2.0 website: https://docs.nvidia.com/openshell/latest/index.html source-code: https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell issues: https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell/issues contact: https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell/security/policy platforms: amd64: build-on: [amd64] build-for: [amd64] arm64: build-on: [arm64] build-for: [arm64] apps: openshell: command: bin/openshell environment: XDG_CONFIG_HOME: "$SNAP_USER_COMMON/.config" XDG_DATA_HOME: "$SNAP_USER_COMMON/.local/share" XDG_STATE_HOME: "$SNAP_USER_COMMON/.local/state" plugs: - home - network - system-observe term: command: bin/openshell term desktop: meta/gui/term.desktop environment: XDG_CONFIG_HOME: "$SNAP_USER_COMMON/.config" XDG_DATA_HOME: "$SNAP_USER_COMMON/.local/share" XDG_STATE_HOME: "$SNAP_USER_COMMON/.local/state" plugs: - home - network - system-observe prover: command: bin/openshell-prover aliases: - openshell-prover plugs: - home system-gateway: command: bin/openshell-gateway-wrapper daemon: simple daemon-scope: system install-mode: disable # refresh-mode: endure prevents snapd from restarting the gateway daemon # during snap refreshes, which would kill active sandbox sessions. # The installer restarts the selected service after an explicit refresh. refresh-mode: endure # This compatibility daemon runs as root. The wrapper serves TLS from the bundle # generated in $SNAP_COMMON/tls, and the default config requires client # certificates; the legacy installer path copies the client bundle to the # target user. The wrapper uses $SNAP_COMMON/gateway.db. Before startup it # bootstraps package-managed credentials and validates the selected # operator-provided config without creating or rewriting it. A nonempty # OPENSHELL_GATEWAY_CONFIG takes precedence over gateway.toml. environment: XDG_DATA_HOME: "$SNAP_COMMON" OPENSHELL_SNAP_CONFIG_FILE: "$SNAP_COMMON/gateway.toml" OPENSHELL_DB_URL: "sqlite:$SNAP_COMMON/gateway.db?mode=rwc" OPENSHELL_LOCAL_TLS_DIR: "$SNAP_COMMON/tls" plugs: - docker - log-observe - network - network-bind - system-observe user-gateway: command: bin/openshell-gateway-wrapper daemon: simple daemon-scope: user install-mode: disable refresh-mode: endure # Use persistent user-owned XDG roots shared with the snap CLI and TUI. # Snapd provides the ephemeral XDG_RUNTIME_DIR automatically. environment: XDG_CONFIG_HOME: "$SNAP_USER_COMMON/.config" XDG_DATA_HOME: "$SNAP_USER_COMMON/.local/share" XDG_STATE_HOME: "$SNAP_USER_COMMON/.local/state" plugs: - docker - log-observe - network - network-bind - system-observe parts: openshell: plugin: nil source: ./snap/prebuilt override-pull: | craftctl default craftctl set version="$(cat "$CRAFT_PART_SRC/version")" override-build: | set -euo pipefail MISSING=() for bin in openshell openshell-prover openshell-gateway openshell-sandbox openshell-gateway-wrapper; do if [ ! -f "$CRAFT_PART_SRC/$bin" ]; then MISSING+=("$bin") fi done if [ ${#MISSING[@]} -gt 0 ]; then printf '%s\n' \ "ERROR: snap/prebuilt/ is incomplete:" \ "${MISSING[@]/#/' - '}" \ "" \ "The snap build directory must be populated by CI before snapcraft pack." \ >&2 exit 1 fi install -D -m 0755 "$CRAFT_PART_SRC/openshell" \ "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/bin/openshell" install -D -m 0755 "$CRAFT_PART_SRC/openshell-prover" \ "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/bin/openshell-prover" install -D -m 0755 "$CRAFT_PART_SRC/openshell-gateway" \ "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/bin/openshell-gateway" install -D -m 0755 "$CRAFT_PART_SRC/openshell-sandbox" \ "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/bin/openshell-sandbox" install -D -m 0755 "$CRAFT_PART_SRC/openshell-gateway-wrapper" \ "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/bin/openshell-gateway-wrapper" install -D -m 0644 "$CRAFT_PART_SRC/meta/gui/term.desktop" \ "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/meta/gui/term.desktop" install -D -m 0644 "$CRAFT_PART_SRC/meta/gui/icon.png" \ "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/meta/gui/icon.png" install -D -m 0644 "$CRAFT_PART_SRC/LICENSE" \ "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/usr/share/doc/openshell/LICENSE" install -D -m 0644 "$CRAFT_PART_SRC/README.md" \ "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/usr/share/doc/openshell/README.md" ssh: # Vendor the openssh-client `ssh` binary into the snap so the CLI/TUI # can spawn `ssh` for sandbox connect/exec/forward without relying on # the host's ssh-keys interface. The binary lands at # $SNAP/usr/bin/ssh and is found via the snap runtime PATH. plugin: nil stage-packages: - openssh-client prime: - usr/bin/ssh