# Lune Miniapps

Miniapps are hosted research assistants with Lune already connected. Open one
in your browser and ask a question in plain English. The assistant can retrieve
relevant top-tier papers and research guidance without an installation step or
an access key to paste.

Miniapps call the same Lune MCP server your own agent would, with a subset of
its tools: paper search, related papers, full text, citations, venues, and
research guidance. Workspace adds extraction, claim checks, and evidence
gathering. Paper results include abstracts, metadata, citation context, and
available full text. Guidance
results cover literature reviews, evaluation design, ablations, peer review,
and venue selection. The response can carry those sources forward instead of
asking the model to reconstruct the literature from memory.

## The miniapps

### Assistant: find what the literature says

Describe a topic in plain language and Assistant searches the corpus for
relevant foundational and recent work. It returns a cited synthesis with the
paper records and available source text behind it. Use it to orient yourself in
a field, find related work, or check the evidence for a technical claim.

Open [Assistant](https://luneresearch.com/dashboard/search).

### Critique: pressure-test a draft or an idea

Paste a draft, an abstract, or a one-line research idea, and Critique reviews it
against the literature: what's already been done, where the gaps are, and which
related work you should be citing. It's the second reader who actually read the
field.

Open [Critique](https://luneresearch.com/dashboard/critique).

### Workspace: chat with your own documents

Upload your own papers, notes, or reports and Workspace answers from them. Ask
what a document says, compare a few side by side, or pull one detail out of a
long PDF, and each answer cites the exact file it came from. Your uploads stay
private to your workspace, and you can invite collaborators when you want a
shared library.

Open [Workspace](https://luneresearch.com/dashboard/workspaces).

## Why the answers hold up

A general chatbot may answer a research question from model memory. A Lune
miniapp retrieves first. It can show which papers were found, preserve their
metadata and links, and quote source passages when full text is available. That
makes the evidence easier to inspect before the answer informs a draft,
evaluation, or higher-stakes decision.

## Bring the same grounding into your own agent

The miniapps are the hosted version. The whole idea behind Lune is that you can
have the same grounding in the tools you already work in. Connect Lune once and
your own assistant gains the same paper retrieval, citation trails, available
full text, and scientific workflow guidance that power the miniapps here.

- [Connect Lune to your AI app](https://luneresearch.com/docs/mcp): Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor,
  and the rest.
- [The Lune command line app](https://luneresearch.com/docs/cli): configure a local agent from your
  terminal, and check the command line app's own setup.