Short visual explainers for the ideas the framework is built on.

Read alongside the Framework page for the architecture model and the project cards for production examples.

Automation to Agency

The spectrum from rule-based automation to autonomous agents. Pandora's Box sits at the right end — language-model-driven agents that plan multi-step actions inside a stated goal.

LLM + Retrieval-Augmented Generation

How a language model answers from your own documents. Knowledge is indexed once into a vector store; each question is matched to the most relevant passages and given to the LLM along with the prompt. Answers stay on-source and can cite the retrieved chunks.

The four blockers

Why earlier agentic systems struggled to reach production: stateless memory, ad-hoc security, brittle tool surfaces, and frontier-API cost for every routine decision. Pandora's Box addresses each by design.

Local plus Frontier

Route by task class. Small local models do classification, summarisation, extraction (free, fast, private). Frontier models are reserved for reasoning that earns their cost.

Defense in Depth

Six independent gates between an external message and an executed action. Each layer is enforced in code, not by policy. Breach one, the others still hold.