@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