Set up in five minutes

The fastest path from "no account" to "my AI assistant just cited a paper for me."

1. Create your account

Go to luneresearch.com/signup and sign up with email or Google. If you choose email, click the confirmation link we send you, then come back.

You're now on the Free plan with 10 requests per day. No card needed, nothing to expire.

2. Pick how you'll connect Lune

The dashboard's Install page walks you through this with one-click buttons. Choose the AI app you already use:

• Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, OpenCode — desktop apps. We give you a one-line install command, you paste, done.
• ChatGPT, Perplexity, Manus — web AI apps. Add Lune as a custom connector through the app's settings; copy-paste the URL we provide.
• Lune CLI — a small terminal app for power users. Install once with npm install -g @retrograde-labs/lune-cli and you can search, manage subscriptions, and switch teams from any shell.

Each path is a few clicks; the dashboard's Install page has illustrated recipes for every supported app.

3. Try a question

Open a chat in your AI app and ask something only a research assistant could answer well. For example:

Find recent papers about cache-timing attacks on AES; cite the top three with links.

Behind the scenes your assistant looks up the right papers through Lune and quotes them in the answer. That counts as one "request" against your daily allowance.

What's next

• Teams & API keys — invite teammates, share a paid plan, mint a key for a new device.
• Plans, requests & credits — when to upgrade, how credits work, what happens at the daily limit.
• Walkthroughs — copy-paste prompts your assistant can run as full research workflows.