SAP embeds NVIDIA OpenShell — an open source runtime for securely developing and deploying autonomous AI agents — into SAP Business AI Platform. In addition, SAP engineers are codesigning OpenShell alongside NVIDIA, contributing back to the open source project.

OpenShell provides isolated execution environments, policy enforcement at the filesystem and network layers, and infrastructure-level containment that guards against damage when agent logic fails.

Within SAP Business AI Platform, OpenShell is the runtime security layer for all SAP AI agents, including custom agents built in Joule Studio — SAP’s environment for building and managing end-to-end enterprise agents.

For enterprises, the shift from AI assistants to autonomous agents changes the trust equation. An agent that can touch systems of record, cross application boundaries and operate without review at every step needs boundaries, policy enforcement and an audit trail before it can become part of production work. That’s what SAP and NVIDIA are collaborating to address.