StudioTesting NVIDIA OpenShell sandbox: auto-approve let the agent reach new hosts 12 of 12 times
Original title: Do you let your agent approve its own network access? We tested it: auto-approve let it reach new hosts 12 of 12 times
The author tested NVIDIA OpenShell 0.1.2 with a local qwen3:8b agent via Ollama: the default policy blocked data exfiltration in all 10 runs, but with auto-approve on, new public hosts were approved without human review in 12 of 12 trials, including rules the sandbox drafted itself. "GET only" rules still leaked data via query strings and headers, rules for GraphQL, MCP, WebSocket and JSON-RPC were flagged unsupported yet accepted anyway, and audit mode logged traffic while letting it through. The author notes these are documented behaviors, not bugs, and the sandbox is only as strict as whoever approves new access.
The author ran controlled tests on NVIDIA OpenShell's network policies in one setup, producing reproducible first-hand data on what each mode blocks and allows.
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