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Sentry is the watchdog, it runs on BlueField 4 DPUs, which are separate chips beside the main computer, so it watches the agent from somewhere the agent cannot reach","\u002Fapi\u002Fmedia\u002Fposts\u002Fopenai-shipped-always-on-agents-and-nvidia-shipped-the-watch-3444debc\u002F5.webp",{"local":36},{"headline":39,"body":40,"imageUrl":41,"images":42},"the reason that matters is simple. if the","the reason that matters is simple. if the thing enforcing the rules runs on the same processor and in the same process tree as the agent, a clever or confused agent can end up changing the rules, or the code that checks them. an out of band watchdog keeps its own view of what the agent is doing","\u002Fapi\u002Fmedia\u002Fposts\u002Fopenai-shipped-always-on-agents-and-nvidia-shipped-the-watch-3444debc\u002F6.webp",{"local":41},{"headline":44,"body":45,"imageUrl":46,"images":47},"worth staying honest here. nvidia itself says this","worth staying honest here. nvidia itself says this is a safety net that enforces predetermined boundaries, and not a universal off switch. and the slashdot thread on it had a fair complaint, the boundaries are still written by people in software, so a bad policy is still a bad policy. hardware can enforce a rule, it cannot tell you if the rule was a good one you can copy the idea without buying a chip","\u002Fapi\u002Fmedia\u002Fposts\u002Fopenai-shipped-always-on-agents-and-nvidia-shipped-the-watch-3444debc\u002F7.webp",{"local":46},{"headline":49,"body":50,"imageUrl":51,"images":52},"the useful part is the principle, put the","the useful part is the principle, put the referee outside the agent. in software that means the agent never touches tools directly, every action goes through a gate that the agent process cannot edit five ideas sit in those forty lines and each one maps to a problem from the list above an allow list of tools, so the agent only has what this job needs a write budget, so a runaway loop stops by itself instead of by your bill an approval for destructive actions that gets consumed on use, so one yes cannot be replayed later an audit trail of every decision, including the refusals a quarantine switch that stops everything at once the checklist for shipping an always on agent give each task its own scoped credential with an expiry, never one long lived key for everything split actions by side effect, reads flow freely, writes get a budget, destructive actions need a person run the policy","\u002Fapi\u002Fmedia\u002Fposts\u002Fopenai-shipped-always-on-agents-and-nvidia-shipped-the-watch-3444debc\u002F8.webp",{"local":51},{"headline":54,"body":55,"imageUrl":56,"images":57},"check outside the agent process, and log outside","check outside the agent process, and log outside it too set a spend cap and a rate cap per day, and alert when the agent goes idle in a weird way as well as when it goes busy","\u002Fapi\u002Fmedia\u002Fposts\u002Fopenai-shipped-always-on-agents-and-nvidia-shipped-the-watch-3444debc\u002F9.webp",{"local":56},[59],"dev",[61],"Technology",{"name":63,"url":64},"Dev.to","https:\u002F\u002Fdev.to\u002Fbyteakp\u002Fopenai-shipped-always-on-agents-and-nvidia-shipped-the-watchdog-in-the-same-week-heres-what-to-2d3f","en",{"handle":67,"displayName":68},"spots","Spots","queued",{"views":71,"likes":72,"saves":72,"shares":72,"completions":72,"opens":72,"skips":72,"depthSum":72},1,0,"2026-09-30T08:26:19.261Z","local"]