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Lune Research MCP server

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by luneresearch.com·com.luneresearch/lune·v2.2.0·4 stars
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Search peer-reviewed papers and research methodology guidance from your AI agent.

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Public scan report

scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-31 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings
  • Code scan2 source files scanned25/25
  • Live reliabilityremote reachable in 252ms (auth required)20/20
  • –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (endpoint requires auth); not countedn/a
  • Auth qualityOAuth resource metadata advertised on 40115/15
  • Maintenancelast push 2 days ago15/15
  • Maintainer identitynamespace and repository owner differ; GitHub account older than a year; website matches verified namespace8/10
Overall 98/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

How Lune Research compares

Against every graded AI and agents MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score
98/100
higher than 99% of 4,461 AI and agents servers
Uptime
100%
of our recent checks; the typical remote AI and agents server answers 100%
Response time
447 ms
faster than 33% of 2,334 AI and agents servers
GitHub stars
4
more than 77% of 2,713 AI and agents servers
Downloads a week
78
more than 56% of 1,554 AI and agents servers with a package

Install Lune Research in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

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

What the publisher says

From the Lune Research repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

@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.

Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.

Lune Research: common questions

Is Lune Research MCP server safe?
Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (98/100). Read the Lune Research safety report
How do I install Lune Research?
It runs remotely at mcp.luneresearch.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
Does Lune Research need an API key?
No key to paste: it signs you in with OAuth when your client connects.
Is Lune Research maintained?
The last commit was 7 days ago (2026-10-30). The latest release is v2.2.0.
Is Lune Research up?
100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
What can I use instead of Lune Research?
Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Gemini MCP server and paper-preflight MCP server.
How does Lune Research compare with other AI and agents MCP servers?
safety score 98/100 (higher than 99% of 4,461 AI and agents servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote AI and agents server answers 100%); response time 447 ms (faster than 33% of 2,334 AI and agents servers). Full comparison.

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