LlamaCloud MCP Servers & Tools

LlamaIndex provides official MCP servers that integrate with LlamaCloud services like LlamaCloud Indexes and LlamaExtract.

The llamacloud-mcp Python package provides an alternative implementation that supports both query and extraction capabilities, using LlamaCloud indexes as knowledge bases and LlamaExtract agents for structured extraction.

Installation

pip install llamacloud-mcp
*# or*
uvx llamacloud-mcp@latest

Claude Usage

To use with an MCP host like claude-code, you can set your configuration file like so:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "llama_index_docs_server": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "llamacloud-mcp@latest",
                "--index",
                "your-index-name:Description of your index",
                "--index",
                "your-other-index-name:Description of your other index",
                "--extract-agent",
                "extract-agent-name:Description of your extract agent",
                "--project-name",
                "<Your LlamaCloud Project Name>",
                "--org-id",
                "<Your LlamaCloud Org ID>",
                "--api-key",
                "<Your LlamaCloud API Key>"
            ]
        },
        "filesystem": {
        "command": "npx",
        "args": [
                "-y",
                "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
                "<your directory you want filesystem tool to have access to>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

General Usage

By default, the MCP server is launched with the stdio transport. This is useful for hosts like Claude Desktop that support MCP servers via stdin/stdout, but you can also launch the server with the streamable-http or sse transport, which is useful for hosts that support MCP servers via HTTP.

You can launch the server directly from the command line:

llamacloud-mcp --index "index-name:Description" --extract-agent "name:description" --org-id YOUR_ORG_ID --project-id YOUR_PROJECT_ID --api-key YOUR_API_KEY --transport streamable-http