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Pinecone Serverless Vector Index & Namespace Reranking MCP
Official Pinecone MCP server: query serverless vector namespaces, upsert embedded knowledge base chunks, and apply hosted neural rerankers.
⚡ 1-Click Agent & Developer Install
Zero Auth · Ready for Grok Bot, Claude Code & Cursorclaude mcp add pinecone -- npx -y @pinecone-database/mcp
Copy-Paste System Prompt / Routine Blueprint:
Connect to the Pinecone Serverless Vector Index & Namespace Reranking MCP (pinecone-mcp) MCP server using `claude mcp add pinecone -- npx -y @pinecone-database/mcp`. First run a read-only discovery check invoking `pinecone_search_records` to verify connectivity and credentials, then summarize the structured response and ask before executing any state-modifying tool calls.
Synthesized Engineering Blueprint & Setup Guide
### Server Architecture & Capability Summary
**Pinecone Serverless Vector Index & Namespace Reranking MCP** (`pinecone-mcp`) is a verified **STDIO** Model Context Protocol (MCP) server curated with **@swyx** for Grok Bot, Claude Code, and Cursor.
Official Pinecone MCP server: query serverless vector namespaces, upsert embedded knowledge base chunks, and apply hosted neural rerankers.
### 1-Click CLI Installation
Run the command below to register `pinecone-mcp` in Claude Code or your MCP client:
```bash
claude mcp add pinecone -- npx -y @pinecone-database/mcp
```
### Standard `mcpServers` JSON Configuration (`.cursor/mcp.json` / `claude_desktop_config.json`)
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"pinecone-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pinecone-database/mcp"
],
"env": {
"PINECONE_API_KEY": "pcsk_your_pinecone_key"
}
}
}
}
```
### Exposed MCP Tools
- `pinecone_search_records` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `pinecone-mcp`.
- `pinecone_upsert_records` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `pinecone-mcp`.
- `pinecone_describe_index_stats` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `pinecone-mcp`.
- `pinecone_rerank` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `pinecone-mcp`.
### Authentication & Environment Variables
- **Transport Protocol:** `stdio`
- **Auth Mechanism:** `api_key`
- `PINECONE_API_KEY`: `pcsk_your_pinecone_key`
- **Documentation / Source:** [https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp](https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp)
Tags: #pinecone-mcp#stdio#research#mcp-server#pinecone-search-records#pinecone-upsert-records
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