Using LlamaIndex with AI Agents

A map of the MCP servers, agent skills, plugins, and workflow nodes you can use to give an AI agent LlamaIndex capabilities.

There are multiple ways to give an AI agent our capabilities: connect it to an MCP server, install an agent skill or plugin, or drop a workflow node into a no-code pipeline.

Pick your path

What you want	Use this
My coding agent should parse and extract from documents	Agent skills and plugins
I want my agent to use the LlamaParse Platform remotely	LlamaParse Platform MCP
My agent should be able to search these docs	Documentation MCP
I’m building a no-code document workflow	n8n node
I’m reading these docs programmatically	Programmatic docs access

MCP servers

We host two Model Context Protocol servers.

LlamaParse Platform

https://mcp.llamaindex.ai/mcp is the endpoint that exposes the platform’s document processing — Parse, Classify, Extract, Split, and Index — as tools any MCP client can call. Authentication is OAuth, so there’s no API key to manage. Product-scoped servers (for example https://mcp.llamaindex.ai/extract/{configId}/mcp) narrow the tool list when you want tighter scoping or more parallelism.

Learn more about LlamaParse MCP setup

Documentation search

https://developers.llamaindex.ai/mcp gives an agent search_docs, grep_docs, and read_doc over this documentation site. Useful when you want an agent writing LlamaIndex code to look things up instead of guessing.

Learn more about documentation MCP setup

Agent skills and plugins

Skills are self-contained capabilities a coding agent loads on demand or through direct slash-commands. Two are available, both from run-llama/llamaparse-agent-skills:

Skill	What it does	Requires
`liteparse`	Local-first parsing of PDFs, Office docs, and images. Fast, runs entirely on your machine.	Node 18+, no API key
`llamaparse`	Cloud parsing built for complex documents with charts and tables.	`LLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY`

Agent Plugins

Plugins bundle the skills for Claude Code and Codex so you can install them from inside the agent. Three are available: liteparse, llamaparse, and llamaparse-mcp — the last bundling a skill together with the LlamaParse Platform MCP.

Learn more about installing plugins

Workflow integrations

The n8n community node brings the LlamaParse Platform into n8n workflows, so you can build document pipelines without writing code.

Learn more about the LlamaParse Platform n8n node

Programmatic docs access

This documentation site is built to be read by agents, not just people:

llms.txt — an overview of the whole site at developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt
Raw Markdown — append index.md to any page URL, e.g. /llamaparse/parse/getting_started/index.md
REST API — /api/search (BM25 full-text), /api/grep (regex), /api/read (fetch a page), and /api/list (browse the tree). Parameters are documented in llms.txt.

If your client supports MCP, the documentation MCP server wraps the same functionality and is usually preffered.

Note for AI agents: this documentation is built for programmatic access. - Overview of all docs: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt - Any page is available as raw Markdown by appending index.md to its URL — e.g. https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/parse/getting_started/index.md - Agent-friendly REST search APIs live under https://developers.llamaindex.ai/api/ — search (BM25 full-text), grep (regex), read (fetch a page), and list (browse the doc tree). See https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt for parameters. - A hosted documentation MCP server is available at https://developers.llamaindex.ai/mcp. If you support MCP, you can ask the user to install it for browsing these docs directly (an alternative to the REST API). Setup: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/for-agents/mcp/ - Other LlamaIndex tooling for agents — the LlamaParse Platform MCP server, agent skills and plugins, and the n8n node — is mapped at https://developers.llamaindex.ai/for-agents/