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@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

com.luneresearch/lune

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@retrograde-labs/lune-mcp-server

Quick start (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.)

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