How do I install Lune?

Lune supports both local and remote installation. For local use, install it via npm (npx) and add the configuration to your AI app. For remote access, add the server URL to your MCP configuration.

What credentials does Lune need?

Lune requires the following credentials or environment variables: LUNE_API_KEY. You can find setup instructions on the server detail page.

What AI apps work with Lune?

Lune uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and works with any MCP-compatible AI app, including Claude, ChatGPT / Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor, and more.

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Lune MCP Server

by RetrogradeLabs

Developer ToolsLow Risk10.0MCP RegistryLocalRemote

Free

Server data from the Official MCP Registry

Search peer-reviewed papers and research methodology guidance from your AI agent.

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Search peer-reviewed papers and research methodology guidance from your AI agent.

Remote endpoints: streamable-http: https://mcp.luneresearch.com/mcp

Security Report

10.0

Low Risk10.0Low Risk

Valid MCP server (2 strong, 1 medium validity signals). No known CVEs in dependencies. Package registry verified. Imported from the Official MCP Registry.

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Permissions Required

This plugin requests these system permissions. Most are normal for its category.

HTTP Network Access

Connects to external APIs or services over the internet.

What You'll Need

Set these up before or after installing:

Lune personal access token. Generate one at https://luneresearch.com/dashboard/credentials.Required

Environment variable: LUNE_API_KEY

How to Install & Connect

Available as Local & Remote

This plugin can run on your machine or connect to a hosted endpoint. during install.

Documentation

View on GitHub

From the project's GitHub README.

@retrograde-labs/lune-mcp-server

Official Model Context Protocol server for Lune Research.

Exposes 16 tools and 6 guided research workflows (prompts) for searching, retrieving, comparing, fact-checking, and subscribing to academic papers across security, ML, NLP, CV, and systems venues. Two transports:

stdio: run locally via npx @retrograde-labs/lune-mcp-server. Reads LUNE_API_KEY from the environment.
Streamable HTTP: hosted at https://mcp.luneresearch.com/mcp. Pass your PAT or OAuth token as Authorization: Bearer ....

Quick start (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lune-research": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@retrograde-labs/lune-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "LUNE_API_KEY": "lune_your_personal_access_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Get your token at https://luneresearch.com/dashboard/credentials.

Tools

Tool	Description
`search_papers`	Hybrid vector + BM25 search across the corpus
`search_papers_many`	Run many query variants in one call, RRF-merged
`search_related_papers`	Semantically nearest papers to a given paper
`get_paper_fulltext`	Parsed full text (markdown or JSON)
`get_paper_citations`	Citation graph (cited_by or cites)
`list_conferences`	Indexed venues, optionally by category
`get_conference_papers`	Paginated papers for a venue
`extract_from_papers`	Structured field extraction across many papers
`verify_claims`	Fact-check claims against the corpus with quotes
`search_research_guidance`	Curated reproducibility / methodology corpus
`get_research_guidance_doc`	Full text of a guidance document
`list_subscriptions`	Active conference subscriptions
`subscribe_conference`	Follow a conference for new-paper updates
`unsubscribe_conference`	Stop following a conference
`get_subscription_updates`	New papers across every subscription

Prompts

Reusable research workflows, surfaced by MCP clients as slash commands (e.g. /literature_review). Each runs a guided, multi-tool sequence grounded in the corpus, so common research tasks are one command instead of hand-orchestrating the tools.

Prompt	What it does	Key arguments
`/literature_review`	Survey a topic and synthesise themes, foundational vs recent work, and open gaps	`topic` (+ optional `venues`, `since_year`)
`/find_related_work`	From your abstract, find and organise prior work to cite and distinguish your contribution from	`abstract` (+ optional `venues`)
`/compare_papers`	Build a structured comparison table across papers, read from full text	`topic` (+ optional `columns`)
`/verify_draft`	Fact-check a draft or list of claims against the corpus, with a verbatim quote per claim	`draft`
`/trace_citations`	Trace a paper's lineage: its foundations, what built on it, and adjacent work	`paper`
`/research_methodology`	Grounded advice on experiment design, ablations, evaluation, rebuttals, or venue choice	`question`

License

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What You'll Need

How to Install & Connect

Documentation

@retrograde-labs/lune-mcp-server

Quick start (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.)

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