Lune Research developer resources

This is the canonical index for adding Lune to an AI app. Install the Lune connector or plugin in a web chatbot. Add the Lune MCP server to a local agent. These are the supported integration paths.

Once connected, the agent can turn a plain-English research question into a search across top-tier conference papers, with abstracts, metadata, citation context, and full text when available. It can also retrieve curated guidance for literature reviews, evaluation design, ablations, and venue selection.

Web chatbots

• Web AI app setup
• Lune Install page
• MCP Registry server manifest

Install the listed Lune connector or plugin when the app has one. Otherwise, add https://mcp.luneresearch.com as a custom connector. ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and other compatible apps discover OAuth and ask the user to sign in.

Local agents

• Desktop and local agent setup
• Hosted MCP endpoint: https://mcp.luneresearch.com
• Published stdio MCP server on npm
• Official MCP Registry entry

Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and other MCP clients can use the hosted server or run the official stdio package locally. Once installed, Lune appears in the agent's regular tool list.

Command line app

• Lune CLI setup guide
• Official Lune CLI package on npm
• Install: npm install -g @retrograde-labs/lune-cli

Use lune install to configure a supported local agent and lune doctor to check the CLI's own setup. The CLI also handles sign-in and teams, and can create access keys. Run research tasks through the installed MCP tools inside the agent.

Authentication and permissions

• MCP connection details
• MCP authentication guide
• Scoped permissions
• OAuth authorization-server metadata

Compatible remote clients discover OAuth from the server URL. Clients that can't do OAuth, and local stdio installs, use an access key the user creates in the dashboard. Request the three scopes the MCP server advertises: papers:read guidance:read account:read.

Discovery files

• llms.txt explains when an agent should use Lune and lists the public content index.
• auth.md gives MCP clients the complete credential flow.
• sitemap.xml lists public pages, conferences, and papers.
• Service status reports current reachability for the public MCP endpoint.