LlamaIndex Newsletter 2025-08-26

Hi there, Llama Enthusiasts! 🦙

Welcome to this week's edition of the LlamaIndex newsletter! We're excited to share some incredible developments including comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) documentation, powerful legal document knowledge graph workflows, multimodal market research capabilities, and innovative tools like vibe-llama for streamlined development. Plus, we have exciting enterprise webinars and partnerships to announce!

If you haven't explored LlamaCloud yet, make sure to sign up and get in touch with us to discuss your specific enterprise use case.

🤩 The Highlights:

• Legal Document Knowledge Graphs: Transform unstructured legal contracts into queryable knowledge graphs using LlamaCloud and Neo4j, with complete workflows for PDF extraction, contract classification, and relationship mapping. Full Cookbook
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) Documentation: New comprehensive documentation section for connecting AI applications to external tools and data sources through standardized interfaces, including LlamaCloud service integration. MCP Overview
• Multimodal Market Research: Build AI applications that analyze both text and images for market research and surveys, combining visual data processing with LlamaParse capabilities. Market Survey Notebook

🗺️ LlamaCloud And LlamaParse:

• Enterprise Document Processing Webinar: Join us September 30th at 9 AM PST for advanced agentic processing techniques, featuring layout-aware processing, human-in-the-loop workflows, and cost-balancing strategies. Register Here
• StackAI Partnership Case Study: Over 1M+ documents processed with high-accuracy parsing for enterprise document agents in finance and insurance sectors. Full Story
• Invoice Parser with Streamlit: Complete walkthrough of building a vibe-coded invoice extraction application using LlamaExtract with carefully constructed prompts for UI development. Repository | Video Tutorial

✨ Framework:

• Durable Workflows: New guide covering three strategies for building workflows that persist across multiple runs, including state stores, external checkpointing, and dependency injection. Durable Workflows Guide
• vibe-llama: Command-line tool that automatically configures coding agents with up-to-date LlamaIndex context, supporting 16 popular agents including Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot. GitHub Repository
• Custom Retrievers with Superlinked: Build domain-specific retrievers that understand gaming jargon and complex queries, combining semantic search with specialized knowledge using multi-field indexing. Full Tutorial
• Heroku AI Integration: Build data-aware AI applications using managed infrastructure with Anthropic Sonnet, Cohere embeddings, and Heroku Postgres with pgvector for seamless RAG deployments. Technical Guide

✍️ Community:

• Agentic AI in Action SF Event Today!: Co-sponsored event with AWS, Elastic, and Twelve Labs on August 26th featuring live tech talk on "Building Document Agents with LlamaIndex: Effective Design Patterns." Register