Lune Research MCP server

@retrograde-labs/lune-mcp-server

<!-- mcp-name: com.luneresearch/lune -->

The official Lune Research MCP server. It gives an AI agent a literature habit: full-text search over top-tier venues, citation trails, figure design references, and a curated corpus of research best practices.

Every answer your agent gives can rest on a paper it actually read, quoted by title, authors and venue, instead of on recall.

Install

Hosted (recommended). One endpoint, OAuth in the browser, no token to paste or rotate:

https://mcp.luneresearch.com

Claude Code:

claude mcp add lune --transport http https://mcp.luneresearch.com

Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Manus and the rest have their own wording for "add a custom connector". The Install page carries a copy-pasteable recipe for each, and the docs explain the flow.

Local stdio. For clients that only speak stdio, run the package directly and hand it a personal access token:

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

Mint a token at Settings -> Credentials. The server reads LUNEAPIKEY from the environment and writes diagnostics to stderr, never stdout, so JSON-RPC framing stays intact.

Tools

Fourteen tools. search finds candidates, get retrieves something you already have a handle on, and list browses. A fifteenth, getmore_tools, is offered alongside them so an agent can report a capability Lune is missing; it is not there if you opt out of analytics.

Finding papers

Reading them

Working across many at once

Designing figures

Doing the work well

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.