MCP server · Pinecone
Pinecone Developer MCP Server
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- Type
- MCP server
- Tasks
- Databases & SQLBuild AI appsLibrary docs & research
- Compatible agents
- Cursor, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Google Antigravity, Gemini CLI (source: clients with setup steps in Pinecone's official MCP docs (docs.pinecone.io) and the official README)
- Verdict
- Pick it to prototype RAG and semantic search on Pinecone from your editor; use a key for a dev project only, since the agent can create indexes and upsert data.
- Permissions
- Searches Pinecone docs; with an API key it lists and describes indexes, creates indexes with integrated embedding, upserts records, searches and reranks across indexes in the project the key belongs to. Only indexes with integrated embedding are supported.
- Credentials
- Optional: works without a key for docs search only; a Pinecone API key (PINECONE_API_KEY) is needed to manage or query indexes. Node.js 20+ with npx.
- Maintenance
- Official repo pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp; release v0.3.0 on 2026-08-07 (npm @pinecone-database/mcp 0.3.0); last push 2026-10-22
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Install
- Local stdio server `npx -y @pinecone-database/mcp` with PINECONE_API_KEY in env. Claude Code: `claude mcp add-json pinecone-mcp '{"type":"stdio","command":"npx","args":["-y","@pinecone-database/mcp"],"env":{"PINECONE_API_KEY":"YOUR_API_KEY"}}'`; Cursor: same command in .cursor/mcp.json; Gemini CLI: `gemini extensions install https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp`. Official install docs ↗
- Source
- https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp
- Verified on
- 2026-10-24
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