# Lune launches search engine for scientific AI agents

published: 2026-10-11T23:43:34.928Z
topic: search
source: https://www.producthunt.com/products/lune-research
url: https://aiagentnews.io/stories/lune-launches-search-engine-for-scientific-ai-agents

Lune, a Product Hunt launch, is a search and grounding service that connects AI agents to research papers from top-tier academic conferences. It works as a connector for ChatGPT, Claude and other MCP-compatible apps.

Lune describes itself as a search engine for scientific AI agents and compares its role to Exa.ai, but focused on research. It connects agents to research knowledge and tools for scientific workflows, and grounds answers in papers from top-tier academic conferences.

According to the maker, Lune indexes years of conference papers in full text, including equations and appendices. Its grounding service lets an AI search and read papers on its own before it answers, and each citation is checked against the paper it names.

The product is pitched at literature review, experimental design, writing and peer review. Lune can be added to ChatGPT or Claude in one click and also works in Cursor, Codex and more than 40 AI apps that support MCP. The maker says it is free to start and that over 1,000 researchers use it daily. Coverage is currently limited to computer science and AI, with other fields promised later.

## Why it matters if you build agents

Developers building research agents can use Lune as a retrieval layer over conference papers instead of general web results, which the maker says keeps answers tied to peer-reviewed sources.

Because coverage is currently limited to computer science and AI, teams working in other fields should check whether the index includes their area before relying on it.