@retrograde-labs/lune-mcp-server

Official Model Context Protocol server for Lune Research.

Exposes 12 tools and 6 guided research workflows (prompts) for searching, retrieving, comparing, and fact-checking academic papers across security, ML, NLP, CV, and systems venues, plus retrieval over your own uploaded workspace documents. 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 | | gather_evidence | Judge evidence sufficiency for a task, with gaps + next queries | | search_research_guidance | Curated reproducibility / methodology corpus | | get_research_guidance_doc | Full text of a guidance document |

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