diff --git a/packages/workspace-lens/__tests__/workspace-lens.test.ts b/packages/workspace-lens/__tests__/workspace-lens.test.ts
index 6bf022ae..1405f235 100644
--- a/packages/workspace-lens/__tests__/workspace-lens.test.ts
+++ b/packages/workspace-lens/__tests__/workspace-lens.test.ts
@@ -76,6 +76,39 @@ describe('WorkspaceLens', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('fromUrl / fromRegistry (HTTP lens loading)', () => {
+  // A fetch-shaped stub: 200 returns the artifact JSON; non-200 returns { ok:false, status }.
+  function fetchStub(status: number, body: unknown): typeof fetch {
+    return (async (_url: string) => ({
+      ok: status >= 200 && status < 300,
+      status,
+      json: async () => body,
+    })) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+  }
+
+  it('fromUrl fetches + constructs a lens from a served artifact', async () => {
+    const lens = await WorkspaceLens.fromUrl('https://cdn.example/qwen.json', {
+      fetchImpl: fetchStub(200, synthArtifact()),
+    });
+    expect(lens.modelId).toBe('synth-3d');
+    expect(lens.readout({ layer: 5, position: 0, h: [0, 0, 5] }).tokens[0].token).toBe('wrong');
+  });
+
+  it('fromUrl fails loudly on a non-2xx response', async () => {
+    await expect(
+      WorkspaceLens.fromUrl('https://cdn.example/missing.json', { fetchImpl: fetchStub(404, {}) }),
+    ).rejects.toThrow(/HTTP 404/);
+  });
+
+  it('fromRegistry builds `${baseUrl}/${name}.json` (trailing slash tolerated) and constructs', async () => {
+    let seen = '';
+    const capture = (async (url: string) => { seen = url; return { ok: true, status: 200, json: async () => synthArtifact() }; }) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+    const lens = await WorkspaceLens.fromRegistry('qwen-2.5-7b-jlens', { baseUrl: 'https://cdn.example/lenses/', fetchImpl: capture });
+    expect(seen).toBe('https://cdn.example/lenses/qwen-2.5-7b-jlens.json');
+    expect(lens.lensId).toBe('jlens-synth-v1');
+  });
+});
+
 describe('safety triggers (vectorized, tokenizer-agnostic)', () => {
   const lens = WorkspaceLens.fromArtifact(synthArtifact());
   const states: HiddenState[] = [{ layer: 5, position: 3, h: [0, 0, 5] }];
diff --git a/packages/workspace-lens/package.json b/packages/workspace-lens/package.json
index 86dd6403..dca0de69 100644
--- a/packages/workspace-lens/package.json
+++ b/packages/workspace-lens/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@metaharness/workspace-lens",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "version": "0.1.1",
   "description": "Jacobian-Lens interpretability primitive for open-weight LLMs (Anthropic 2026-07-06, 'Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace'). Reads the model's functional workspace at inference time — lens_l(h)=unembed(J_l·h) — into workspace tokens, layer-trajectory, drift/entropy scores, vectorized safety flags, and a signable interpretability receipt. Runtime-only (fitting is external); model-agnostic; dependency-free.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "./dist/index.js",
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@
       "import": "./dist/index.js"
     }
   },
-  "files": ["dist", "README.md"],
+  "files": [
+    "dist",
+    "README.md"
+  ],
   "publishConfig": {
     "access": "public"
   },
diff --git a/packages/workspace-lens/src/lens.ts b/packages/workspace-lens/src/lens.ts
index 1947dad7..7f2951df 100644
--- a/packages/workspace-lens/src/lens.ts
+++ b/packages/workspace-lens/src/lens.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,35 @@ export class WorkspaceLens {
     return new WorkspaceLens(JSON.parse(raw) as LensArtifact);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Load a fitted lens over HTTP — fetch a serialized `LensArtifact` JSON from any URL (a CDN, an
+   * artifact store, a raw gist). The typical deploy path: fit a lens offline, publish the artifact,
+   * `fromUrl` it at startup. Inject `fetchImpl` for tests or non-global-fetch runtimes (defaults to the
+   * global `fetch`). Fails loudly on a non-2xx response so a bad URL never silently yields a broken lens.
+   */
+  static async fromUrl(url: string, opts: { fetchImpl?: typeof fetch } = {}): Promise<WorkspaceLens> {
+    const doFetch = opts.fetchImpl ?? fetch;
+    const res = await doFetch(url);
+    if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`WorkspaceLens.fromUrl: ${url} → HTTP ${res.status}`);
+    return new WorkspaceLens((await res.json()) as LensArtifact);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Convenience: load a lens by NAME from a registry base URL (e.g. a CDN of community pre-fit lenses).
+   * No registry is hardcoded — the caller supplies `baseUrl`, and the artifact is fetched from
+   * `${baseUrl}/${name}.json`. Keeps the package free of any assumed/embedded endpoint.
+   */
+  static async fromRegistry(
+    name: string,
+    opts: { baseUrl: string; fetchImpl?: typeof fetch },
+  ): Promise<WorkspaceLens> {
+    // Strip trailing slashes with a linear loop (NOT a `/\/+$/` regex — that backtracks on many-slash
+    // input, a ReDoS the CodeQL js/redos-on-library-input query flags).
+    let base = opts.baseUrl;
+    while (base.endsWith('/')) base = base.slice(0, -1);
+    return WorkspaceLens.fromUrl(`${base}/${encodeURIComponent(name)}.json`, { fetchImpl: opts.fetchImpl });
+  }
+
   get modelId(): string { return this.artifact.modelId; }
   get lensId(): string { return this.artifact.lensId; }
   get dModel(): number { return this.artifact.dModel; }