@retrograde-labs/lune-mcp-server

Official Model Context Protocol server for Lune Research.

Exposes 12 tools for searching, retrieving, 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 | | get_paper | Fetch metadata for a 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 | | search_research_guidance | Curated reproducibility / methodology corpus | | get_research_guidance_doc | Full text of a guidance document | | list_conference_update_subscriptions | Active conference update subscriptions | | subscribe_to_conference_updates | Start receiving updates for a conference | | unsubscribe_from_conference_updates | Stop receiving updates for a conference | | check_for_conference_updates | Pull new papers since the last check |

License

MIT