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Lune Research MCP Server

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Lune Research is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. 134 installs a week from npm. Last commit 17 Sep 2026.

Search peer-reviewed papers and research methodology guidance from your AI agent.

Installs per day peak 337 · avg 40 · +107% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 97%
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
182 of 182 checks
Tools
hidden behind auth
811 ms
Response time
average over 24h
134
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Lune Research does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.9% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add lune --transport http https://mcp.luneresearch.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lune": {
      "url": "https://mcp.luneresearch.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.lune]
url = "https://mcp.luneresearch.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lune": {
      "url": "https://mcp.luneresearch.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lune": {
      "url": "https://mcp.luneresearch.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: LUNE_API_KEY (Lune personal access token. Generate one at https://luneresearch.com/dashboard/settings/credentials.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

This server publishes 1 more address. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.luneresearch.com/mcp streamable-http sign-in 798 ms 14 min ago
https://mcp.luneresearch.com streamable-http sign-in 796 ms 14 min ago

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Lune Research — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Lune Research?
The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.
Is Lune Research working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 182 of 182 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 811 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Lune Research?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.
How do you sign in to Lune Research?
No API key is involved. Lune Research answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.
How fast is Lune Research?
It answers our handshake in 811 ms on average, which is faster than 13% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Lune Research?
The npm package @retrograde-labs/lune-mcp-server was installed 134 times in the last week. Week over week that is +107%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Lune Research open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 4 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.