Lune — Claude Code plugin

Top-tier paper search, citation graphs, conference monitoring, and curated research best-practices — for your Claude Code agent.

This plugin bundles:

• MCP server (mcp.luneresearch.com) — search_papers, get_paper, get_paper_fulltext, get_paper_citations, get_conferences, get_conference_papers, subscribe_conference, search_research_guidance, etc.
• Four research skills (skills/) — paper search, literature review, conference monitoring, research guidance. Claude auto-invokes them when the description matches the user's request.
• Three slash commands (commands/) — /lune-search, /lune-cite, /lune-watch.

Install

# Inside Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add RetrogradeLabs/lune
/plugin install lune@retrograde-labs-lune

Then set your Lune API key (free tier available, sign up at https://luneresearch.com):

export LUNE_API_KEY=lune_xxx

The MCP server reads the key from ${LUNE_API_KEY} at request time. Restart Claude Code after the first install so it picks up the env var.

Skills

Skill	When Claude invokes it
lune-paper-search	"Find me papers on X", "what's been published on Y"
lune-literature-review	"Write a literature review of …", "summarise the state of …"
lune-conference-monitor	"Watch CCS 2025 for new papers", "subscribe me to …"
lune-research-guidance	"How should I structure a paper review?", "what's the SOP for …"

Slash commands

/lune-search <query>             # Search Lune for papers
/lune-cite <paper_id>            # Pull citations for a paper, sorted by inbound count
/lune-watch <conference>         # Subscribe + drain new papers

Source

• Plugin: https://github.com/RetrogradeLabs/lune
• MCP server: https://github.com/luneresearch/lune-mono/tree/main/apps/mcp
• Lune platform: https://luneresearch.com

License

MIT