# NVIDIA Agent Toolkit NVIDIA Agent Toolkit is an open-source platform announced at GTC 2026 (March 16, 2026) for building and deploying autonomous, self-evolving [[AI Agents]]. It extends AI beyond generation and reasoning into action, providing the infrastructure for enterprises to deploy teams of specialized agents. ## Components The toolkit is an umbrella containing several open-source projects: - **[[OpenShell]]**: safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents. Containerized execution with policy-driven security (filesystem, network, process, inference routing). - **[[NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit]]** (`nvidia-nat`): library for connecting, evaluating, and accelerating teams of agents across any framework. Profiling, optimization, RL fine-tuning. - **[[NemoClaw]]**: reference implementation for running [[OpenClaw]] agents securely inside OpenShell with managed inference. - **[[NVIDIA Nemotron]]**: open models for research and reasoning. - **[[NVIDIA AI-Q]]**: open agent blueprint for perception, reasoning, and action using a hybrid architecture (frontier models for orchestration, Nemotron for research). ## Architecture The system is layered: models (Nemotron + frontier), agent intelligence (NeMo Agent Toolkit), agent execution (OpenShell sandboxes), orchestration (NemoClaw), and blueprints (AI-Q). The hybrid approach claims 50%+ query cost reduction vs frontier-only approaches while maintaining top leaderboard accuracy on DeepResearch Bench. ## Enterprise adoption Partners include Adobe, Atlassian, Box, Cadence, CrowdStrike, IQVIA (150+ agents deployed), Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Siemens, and others. Runs on GeForce RTX, RTX workstations, DGX Station, and DGX Spark. ## References - https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/ai-agents - https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell - https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Agent-Toolkit - https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw ## Related - [[AI Agents]] - [[AI Agent Orchestration]] - [[AI Agent Harness]] - [[OpenShell]] - [[NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit]] - [[NemoClaw]] - [[NVIDIA Nemotron]] - [[NVIDIA AI-Q]] - [[Agentic Era]]