Lune

Connect Lune to your AI app

Connect Lune once, then ask your AI agent a research question in plain English. The agent can call Lune to retrieve relevant literature, inspect available source text, trace citations, compare papers, and consult guidance built for scientific workflows. You do not need to name a tool or learn a separate query language.

What your assistant can do once Lune is connected

  • Search top-tier research papers. Hybrid search across papers from leading academic conferences. Results include titles, authors, abstracts, venue and publication metadata, and stable source links.
  • Follow citation trails. Look up which papers cite a paper and which papers it builds on. Useful for "what's the lineage of this idea."
  • Read available full text. Where Lune has permission to index it, the agent can retrieve the actual methods, results, related work, equations, and source passages needed for the task.
  • Browse conferences. Look up the venues Lune indexes (NeurIPS, ICLR, CCS, etc.) and pull their accepted papers by year.
  • Consult scientific workflow guidance. Lune curates guidance for literature reviews, evaluation design, ablation studies, research writing, peer review, and venue selection. The agent can retrieve and cite the relevant entries alongside papers.

Repeatable research workflows

Plain English is the default. For repeatable jobs, Lune also publishes guided workflows that some AI apps show as slash commands. Each workflow coordinates the same underlying tools to search, read, compare, verify, and cite.

  • /literature_review takes a topic and gives you a survey: the main themes, the foundational and recent work, and the open gaps.
  • /find_related_work takes your abstract and returns the prior work to cite, grouped by theme, with a note on how your contribution differs.
  • /compare_papers builds a comparison table across papers; you pick the columns (dataset, metric, result, and so on).
  • /verify_draft fact-checks a paragraph or a list of claims against the literature, with an exact supporting quote for each.
  • /trace_citations traces a paper's lineage: what it built on, what built on it, and adjacent work.
  • /research_methodology gives grounded advice on experiment design, ablations, evaluation, responding to reviewers, or choosing a venue.

Not every app shows slash commands. Ask for the same job in plain English and the agent can still use the underlying tools.

Pick your setup

  • Local AI agents: Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, OpenCode, Antigravity, Zed, and other installed MCP clients.
  • Web AI apps: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Manus, Hermes, and any web app that supports custom connectors.

Pick the guide that matches where the app runs. The Install page has the current recipe for every supported client.

What's the difference?

  • Local AI agents run on your device. Most connect straight to Lune's hosted Streamable HTTP server. Clients that require stdio launch the official npm package locally.
  • Web AI apps install Lune as a connector or plugin and connect to the same hosted MCP server. OAuth handles sign-in without a pasted token.

Either way, your assistant gets the same abilities. Pick whichever matches the app you actually use.

Switching apps

You can connect Lune to as many apps as you want: they all share your account, your daily allowance, and your credits. The dashboard's Install page is the canonical place to manage which apps are connected.