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Prerequisites

Before you can configure and use LlamaIndex with Connect AI, you must do the following:
  • Connect a data source to your Connect AI account. See Sources for more information.
  • Generate a Personal Access Token (PAT) on the Settings page. Copy this down, as it acts as your password during authentication.
  • Obtain an OpenAI API key: https://platform.openai.com.
  • Make sure you have Python >= 3.10 in order to install the LlamaIndex packages.

Create the Python Files

1
Create a folder for LlamaIndex MCP.
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Create a Python file within the folder called llamaindex.py.
3
In llamaindex.py, set up your MCP server and MCP client to call the tools and prompts. For Authorization, you need to provide your Base64-encoded Connect AI username and PAT (obtained in the prerequisites) after Basic.

Install the LlamaIndex Packages

Run pip install llama-index llama-index-llms-openai llama-index-tools-mcp in your project terminal.

Run the Python Script

1
When the installation finishes, run python llamaindex.py to execute the script.
2
The script discovers the Connect AI MCP tools needed for the LLM to query the connected data.
3
Supply a prompt for the agent. The agent provides a response.
LlamaIndex Terminal