A local connection that lets an AI agent search peer-reviewed research papers and get guidance on research methods. It runs through the Lune server and requires an API key.

Searching academic papers and asking for research-methodology guidance from within an AI-agent workflow.

It helps when answers need published research or advice on how to design and evaluate a study, instead of relying only on general model knowledge.

lune — MCP server for Claude Code and Codex by RetrogradeLabs

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RetrogradeLabs/lune-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

lune scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

server.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "lune": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": [
      "-y",
      "@retrograde-labs/lune-mcp-server"
    ],
    "env": {
      "LUNE_API_KEY": ""
    }
  }
}

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

7d ago First seen · 12 lines scan A 0da44e89e307

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lune is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository RetrogradeLabs/lune-mcp-server (4 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Research academic-papers ai-agents citation-analysis literature-review mcp model-context-protocol

lune

Getting it into your agent

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Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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