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What Turning On “Agent Mode” Actually Does

Written by the Lumen team · 2026-08-17

Toggle the 🛠 Agent switch and Lumen stops just answering and starts working a loop: it plans a small set of steps, runs a tool for each one, looks at what came back, and decides whether to keep going, change course, or report the result. That's the same shape as the ReAct pattern -- reason, act, observe, repeat -- and each step is shown in the plan panel as it runs, not hidden behind a spinner.

What it can actually reach

Every tool call and its result is surfaced in the observation log in the UI, so "agent did something" is never a black box -- you can see the exact step, whether it succeeded, and what it found.

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