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Core Concepts#

How Lens Agents works under the hood — the architecture, the sandbox, and the protocol agents use to reach tools.

  • How It Works


    Request flow, the governance chain, and the platform's key components.

  • Agent Execution Modes


    Mode 1 (agent outside the sandbox) vs Mode 2 (agent inside). What governance each mode covers.

  • Sandbox


    How every agent action runs inside kernel-enforced isolation.

  • MCP


    The Model Context Protocol — how agents discover and call tools, regardless of framework.

For the comparison of agent types (Desktop / External / Managed), see the Agents overview.


Architecture review, live

Platform teams and security architects usually want this walked through with their own clusters, IdP, and integrations on the whiteboard. We run that session as part of every evaluation. Talk to us to book it.