@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

MIT