# How to change the communications library

In order to handle the remote communications with the different platforms, Autosubmit uses an implementation of a communications library. There are multiple implementations, so you can choose any of them.

Hint

At this moment there are two available communications libraries which are `saga` and `paramiko`.

To change the communications library, open the <experiments_directory>/cxxx/conf/autosubmit_cxxx.conf file where cxxx is the experiment identifier and change the value of the API configuration variable in the communications section:

    [communications]
    # Communications library used to connect with platforms: paramiko or saga.
    # Default = paramiko
    API = saga