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* feat(providers): report bounded token-grant failures Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * test(providers): align policy metadata and TLS lockfile Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * test(providers): fix trusted grant recovery fixture Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * test(providers): enable denial API in recovery fixture Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * refactor(providers): simplify token-grant failure reporting Remove duplication and dead paths from the token-grant failure reporting without changing classification, the workload-visible 502 response, or the wire format. - Build the gRPC failure envelope with tonic-types, store the typed failure in EndpointFailure, and share one request-ID rule and one endpoint-status authority check. - Merge the gateway exchange client wrapper, drop forwarding validators, and name the request field when a reported cause is rejected. - Inject fallback credentials only from live provider state and delete the unread per-connection credential copy. Keep one 502 writer per path and restore the base token-cache handling. - Check the token endpoint after the cache lookup, still before any credential acquisition. - Document 429 and 5xx classification as implemented, and drop tests that repeat retained assertions through the same code path. Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * refactor(providers): trim token-grant failure tests and supervisor API Cut the token-grant failure tests to one test per distinct behavior across core, gateway, supervisor, CLI and Go, and replace the 794-line closure E2E with status assertions in the existing route-recovery E2E: the refused grant appears in sandbox status with the response's request ID, code, stage and upstream status, and the matching grant's later success clears it. - Pin the live provider snapshot with one helper used by inspected and fallback forwarding, and inject selector-matched grants through inject_for_selectors, which borrows the pinned context. Move the test-only wrapper into test_support. - Drop the 35-second wrappers around the gateway grant RPC. The shared channel bounds the connection attempt and the gateway bounds its token-service calls. - Log the token service's OAuth error and error_description, without control characters and limited to 256 characters each, with the request ID in the gateway or supervisor log. Status and the workload response still carry only the bounded cause. - Keep one check that an untrusted token-service certificate cannot assert a cause. Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * fix(providers): restore test import and features lockfile The injection tests named EndpointObservationSender through the parent module, which no longer imports it. The features suite lockfile kept the tonic TLS dependency that the removed E2E fixture added. Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * test(providers): fix body-bound fixture width and table type Pass the response-size width as a named argument; an implicitly captured constant panics at runtime. Name the mutation type in the validation table for Clippy. Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * test(providers): pad exact-bound body without a format width MAX_TOKEN_RESPONSE_BYTES exceeds u16::MAX, the largest format width, so the padded fixture panicked. Pad with repeat_n as before. Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * test(server): update public RPC schema hash after rebase Main added the ListProvidersRequest label selector. The merged public schema hash comes from the Branch Checks storage_proto test output. Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * fix(providers): keep token-service error text out of grant logs A token service can echo a submitted credential in its OAuth error or error_description. Log only the classified failure code, HTTP status and request ID, and cover the canary echo in a dedicated test binary. Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * docs(providers): tighten token grant failure documentation Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> * docs(providers): condense token grant failure guidance Signed-off-by: John Myers <9696606+johntmyers@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: John Myers <9696606+johntmyers@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: John Myers <9696606+johntmyers@users.noreply.github.com>
Important
New in OpenShell 0.1.x: a stable release cadence, new isolation primitives, an expanded extension surface, and new APIs. Read the 0.1.0 upgrade guide.
OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents. Agents are most useful when they can read files, install packages, call APIs, and use credentials. OpenShell gives them that capability without giving them unrestricted access to your data, secrets, or network. You declare what each agent can touch in a policy, and OpenShell enforces it.
How It Works
OpenShell governs what agents can do in two ways: it instruments the kernel to enforce policy on every file access, system call, and network connection at runtime, and it uses formal verification to check what a policy change would allow before it is applied.
- Kernel-level enforcement. Each agent runs in an isolated sandbox. Kernel controls confine which files it can access and which system calls it can make, and every network connection passes through a policy check before it leaves the sandbox. Agents never see real credentials; OpenShell adds them only to requests bound for approved endpoints.
- Formally verified policy changes. Before a policy change is approved, OpenShell uses formal verification to flag risky new access it would grant, such as reaching a new host with credentials or calling a new API method, so those changes wait for human review.
See Architecture for how the gateway, supervisor, and sandbox fit together.
Quickstart
You need Linux, macOS on Apple Silicon, or Windows with WSL 2 (experimental), plus Docker, Podman, or host virtualization. See the Support Matrix for details.
curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell/main/install.sh | sh
openshell sandbox create --name demo
The installer sets up the CLI and a local gateway. The default sandbox image is minimal Ubuntu with no agent installed. To run a real agent, follow Run Your First Agent: it runs OpenCode against a free OpenRouter model and shows how to approve new access as the agent needs it.
Explore Further
- Sandboxes: images, runtimes, GPUs, and lifecycle.
- Policies: filesystem, network, and process rules, with the advisor and prover for reviewing changes.
- Providers: credentials that work only at approved endpoints, including inference.
- Gateways: the control plane for sandboxes, policy, and access.
- Kubernetes: deploy the gateway with Helm. Your CNI must enforce
NetworkPolicy. - Extensibility: middleware, interceptors, and compute drivers.
- Tutorials: step-by-step policy and agent walkthroughs.
- Prerelease and development builds: try an upcoming release or the latest commit on
main.
Agent Skills
Install the public OpenShell skills for your coding agent:
npx skills add NVIDIA/OpenShell
The skills teach your agent to drive the OpenShell CLI, write sandbox policies, and debug gateways and inference routing. They live in skills/ and work without an OpenShell source checkout.
SDKs
SDKs connect applications to an OpenShell gateway. They do not install the CLI. Use the same OpenShell release for the SDK and the gateway when possible.
| Language | Install | Docs |
|---|---|---|
| Python | uv add openshell |
README |
| TypeScript | npm install @nvidia/openshell-sdk (GitHub Packages) |
README |
| Go | go get github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell/sdk/go@latest |
README |
| Rust | cargo add openshell-sdk --git https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell --tag <release-tag> |
Installation and usage |
Community
- Questions and discussion: GitHub Discussions
- Bug reports and feature requests: GitHub Issues, using the issue templates
- Security vulnerabilities: follow SECURITY.md. Do not open a GitHub issue.
- Roadmap: OpenShell Roadmap and the RFC board
- Try it in the cloud: Brev Launchable
OpenShell is built agent-first: it is developed with the same agent-driven workflows it enables. See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup and the contribution workflow, and AGENTS.md for repository coding conventions.
Telemetry
OpenShell collects anonymous telemetry, limited to operational categories and counts, to help improve the project. It does not collect sandbox names, hostnames, file paths, prompts, credentials, provider or model names, or user content. To disable it, set OPENSHELL_TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false on the gateway, or server.telemetryEnabled=false for Helm installs. You can also compile telemetry out entirely. See Telemetry for details and the community telemetry reports for published usage trends.
Notice and Disclaimer
This software automatically retrieves, accesses or interacts with external materials. Those retrieved materials are not distributed with this software and are governed solely by separate terms, conditions and licenses. You are solely responsible for finding, reviewing and complying with all applicable terms, conditions, and licenses, and for verifying the security, integrity and suitability of any retrieved materials for your specific use case. This software is provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind. The author makes no representations or warranties regarding any retrieved materials, and assumes no liability for any losses, damages, liabilities or legal consequences from your use or inability to use this software or any retrieved materials. Use this software and the retrieved materials at your own risk.
License
This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.