NVIDIA expands open-source Agent Toolkit and launches Agent Knowledge Foundation
What happened
On 21 October 2026, the NVIDIA Blog reported that NVIDIA is expanding its open-source Agent Toolkit, adding the Agent Knowledge Foundation and incorporating the CUDA-X libraries, the Nemotron Retriever and Kumo series of open models, the OpenShell security runtime, the NemoClaw blueprint, and tools including NeMo Relay and NeMo Compass. The report did not disclose the specific functions, release timelines or availability of each tool. The current development is an expansion of the toolset, with the Agent Knowledge Foundation introduced as a new component alongside the expansion.
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- NVIDIA BlogNVIDIA Agent Toolkit Expands, Grounding Enterprise Agents in Company Data
Agents are only as useful as what they know, and only as trustworthy as the boundaries they run within.
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