---
title: LlamaCloud MCP Servers & Tools | Developer Documentation
---

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

The [`llamacloud-mcp`](https://github.com/run-llama/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

Terminal window

```
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:

Terminal window

```
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
```