Pinecone's Developer MCP server lets coding assistants search Pinecone documentation and manage indexes with integrated embedding, including creating indexes, upserting, searching and reranking records. It runs locally via npx; without an API key only documentation search is available.
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Connect
- 1Add the server to Codex
codex mcp add pinecone --env PINECONE_API_KEY=YOUR_PINECONE_API_KEY -- npx -y @pinecone-database/mcp
Configs are generated from the publisher's documented endpoint. Check their docs for plan requirements and scopes. New to this? Read the step-by-step tutorial.
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search-docslist-indexesdescribe-indexdescribe-index-statscreate-index-for-modelupsert-recordssearch-recordscascading-searchrerank-documentsThings to ask
- “List my Pinecone indexes and their stats”
- “Create an index for model llama-text-embed-v2 called docs”
- “Upsert these records into my docs index”
- “Search my index for passages about refund policy”