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title: Skills and Plugins | Developer Documentation
description: Use the LlamaParse skills and plugins to make your agents better at processing documents.
---

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](../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](../../parse/getting_started/). 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](../../general/api_key/)), 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](https://github.com/run-llama/llamaparse-agent-skills) with the [`skills` CLI](https://www.npmjs.com/package/skills):

Terminal window

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

To install a single skill, pass `--skill`:

Terminal window

```
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](../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](#tab-panel-644)
- [Codex](#tab-panel-645)

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`.

Add the marketplace:

Terminal window

```
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.