Skills and Plugins

LlamaParse ships agent skills (focused capabilities that teach coding agents how to parse and extract content from documents) and agent plugins that bundle those skills (and, in one case, the LlamaParse MCP) for one-step installation in Claude Code and Codex.

Skills

A skill is a self-contained capability an agent loads on demand. LlamaParse provides two:

• llamaparse — unstructured document parsing and text extraction powered by Parse. Handles PDFs, presentations, Word documents, spreadsheets, and images, and is built for complex documents with charts and tables that need sophisticated extraction. Requires a LLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY (see the API Key guide), Node 18+, and npm; it can use the @llamaindex/llama-cloud package.
• liteparse — local-first, fast document parsing, conversion, and spatial text extraction. Prioritizes speed for PDFs and text-dense documents with tables and images, and runs entirely locally with no API key. Requires Node 18+, npm, and the globally installed @llamaindex/liteparse package; Office support additionally needs LibreOffice, and image support needs ImageMagick.

Installing skills

Install both skills from the skills repository with the skills CLI:

npx skills add run-llama/llamaparse-agent-skills

To install a single skill, pass --skill:

npx skills add run-llama/llamaparse-agent-skills --skill llamaparse

Alternatively, download the .zip from the repository’s GitHub Releases.

Plugins

Plugins package the skills above for Claude Code and Codex so you can install and enable them from within the agent. Three plugins are available:

• liteparse — the liteparse skill: parse and extract content from PDFs, Office docs, and images locally. No authentication required.
• llamaparse — the llamaparse skill: cloud-based, advanced document parsing. Requires a LlamaParse API key.
• llamaparse-mcp — bundles a skill together with the LlamaParse MCP, connecting your agent to the LlamaParse Platform (parse, split, classify, and more) at https://mcp.llamaindex.ai/mcp. Prompts you to authenticate on first use of an MCP tool.

Installing plugins

Claude Code

Add the marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add run-llama/llamaparse-agent-plugins

Then enable a plugin with its slash command — for example /liteparse:liteparse, /llamaparse:llamaparse, or /llamaparse-mcp:llamaparse-mcp.

Codex

Add the marketplace:

codex plugin marketplace add run-llama/llamaparse-agent-plugins

Then enable the plugins you want through Codex’s plugin management.

Tip

Use liteparse for fast, local parsing with no setup, and llamaparse (or llamaparse-mcp) when you need the LlamaParse Platform’s advanced parsing and the rest of its document-processing tools.