diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 80be2dd..adb4551 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,5 +2,8 @@
 
 /venv/
 /run/
+/build/
 
 __pycache__/
+*.egg-info/
+CLAUDE.md
diff --git a/src/mgds/pipelineModules/EncodeLensText.py b/src/mgds/pipelineModules/EncodeLensText.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61ab992
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/mgds/pipelineModules/EncodeLensText.py
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+from contextlib import nullcontext
+
+import torch
+from lens.text_encoder import LensGptOssEncoder
+from mgds.PipelineModule import PipelineModule
+from mgds.pipelineModuleTypes.RandomAccessPipelineModule import RandomAccessPipelineModule
+
+
+# This module is Lens-specific: it relies on LensGptOssEncoder.encode_layers() rather than the
+# standard output_hidden_states=True API. The standard API cannot be used because transformers'
+# @capture_outputs applies tie_last_hidden_states, which norms hidden_states[-1] — corrupting
+# the last selected layer (GPT-OSS layer 23 is the final layer in the model).
+# text_encoder.set_selected_layers() must have been called before this module is used;
+# LensModelLoader does this immediately after loading the text encoder.
+class EncodeLensText(
+    PipelineModule,
+    RandomAccessPipelineModule,
+):
+    def __init__(
+            self,
+            tokens_name: str,
+            tokens_attention_mask_in_name: str | None,
+            hidden_state_out_name: str,
+            tokens_attention_mask_out_name: str | None,
+            text_encoder: LensGptOssEncoder,
+            crop_start: int | None = None,
+            autocast_contexts: list[torch.autocast | None] = None,
+            dtype: torch.dtype | None = None,
+    ):
+        super(EncodeLensText, self).__init__()
+        self.tokens_name = tokens_name
+        self.tokens_attention_mask_in_name = tokens_attention_mask_in_name
+        self.hidden_state_out_name = hidden_state_out_name
+        self.tokens_attention_mask_out_name = tokens_attention_mask_out_name
+        self.text_encoder = text_encoder
+        self.crop_start = crop_start
+
+        self.autocast_contexts = [nullcontext()] if autocast_contexts is None else autocast_contexts
+        self.dtype = dtype
+
+    def length(self) -> int:
+        return self._get_previous_length(self.tokens_name)
+
+    def get_inputs(self) -> list[str]:
+        return [self.tokens_name, self.tokens_attention_mask_in_name]
+
+    def get_outputs(self) -> list[str]:
+        return [self.tokens_name, self.hidden_state_out_name, self.tokens_attention_mask_out_name]
+
+    def get_item(self, variation: int, index: int, requested_name: str = None) -> dict:
+        tokens = self._get_previous_item(variation, self.tokens_name, index)
+        tokens = tokens.unsqueeze(0)
+
+        if self.tokens_attention_mask_in_name is not None:
+            tokens_attention_mask = self._get_previous_item(variation, self.tokens_attention_mask_in_name, index)
+            tokens_attention_mask = tokens_attention_mask.unsqueeze(0)
+        else:
+            tokens_attention_mask = None
+
+        with self._all_contexts(self.autocast_contexts):
+            layer_outputs = self.text_encoder.encode_layers(tokens, tokens_attention_mask)
+
+        hidden_state = torch.cat(layer_outputs, dim=-1)
+        tokens = tokens.squeeze(dim=0)
+        hidden_state = hidden_state.squeeze(dim=0)
+        tokens_attention_mask = tokens_attention_mask.squeeze(dim=0)
+
+        if self.crop_start is not None:
+            tokens = tokens[self.crop_start:]
+            tokens_attention_mask = tokens_attention_mask[self.crop_start:]
+            hidden_state = hidden_state[self.crop_start:]
+
+        return {
+            self.tokens_name: tokens,
+            self.hidden_state_out_name: hidden_state,
+            self.tokens_attention_mask_out_name: tokens_attention_mask,
+        }
diff --git a/src/mgds/pipelineModules/Tokenize.py b/src/mgds/pipelineModules/Tokenize.py
index b3ff90c..d800a83 100644
--- a/src/mgds/pipelineModules/Tokenize.py
+++ b/src/mgds/pipelineModules/Tokenize.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ def __init__(
             additional_format_text_tokens: int | None = None,
             apply_chat_template: Callable | None = None,
             apply_chat_template_kwargs = {},
+            apply_chat_template_post_process: Callable[[str], str] | None = None,
             expand_mask: int = 0,
     ):
         super(Tokenize, self).__init__()
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.format_text = format_text
         self.apply_chat_template = apply_chat_template
         self.apply_chat_template_kwargs = apply_chat_template_kwargs
+        self.apply_chat_template_post_process = apply_chat_template_post_process
         self.additional_format_text_tokens = additional_format_text_tokens
         self.expand_mask = expand_mask
 
@@ -60,6 +62,8 @@ def get_item(self, variation: int, index: int, requested_name: str = None) -> di
                 tokenize=False,
                 **self.apply_chat_template_kwargs,
             )
+            if self.apply_chat_template_post_process is not None:
+                text = self.apply_chat_template_post_process(text)
 
         tokenizer_output = self.tokenizer(
             text,