Pinecone Model Context Protocol Server for Claude Desktop.

Components

flowchart TB
subgraph Client["MCP Client (e.g., Claude Desktop)"]
UI[User Interface]
end
subgraph MCPServer["MCP Server (pinecone-mcp)"]
Server[Server Class]
subgraph Handlers["Request Handlers"]
ListRes[list_resources]
ReadRes[read_resource]
ListTools[list_tools]
CallTool[call_tool]
GetPrompt[get_prompt]
ListPrompts[list_prompts]
end
subgraph Tools["Implemented Tools"]
SemSearch[semantic-search]
ReadDoc[read-document]
ListDocs[list-documents]
PineconeStats[pinecone-stats]
ProcessDoc[process-document]
end
end
subgraph PineconeService["Pinecone Service"]
PC[Pinecone Client]
subgraph PineconeFunctions["Pinecone Operations"]
Search[search_records]
Upsert[upsert_records]
Fetch[fetch_records]
List[list_records]
Embed[generate_embeddings]
end
Index[(Pinecone Index)]
end

%% Connections
UI --> Server
Server --> Handlers
ListTools --> Tools
CallTool --> Tools
Tools --> PC
PC --> PineconeFunctions
PineconeFunctions --> Index

%% Data flow for semantic search
SemSearch --> Search
Search --> Embed
Embed --> Index

%% Data flow for document operations
UpsertDoc --> Upsert
ReadDoc --> Fetch
ListRes --> List

Resources

The server implements the ability to read and write to a Pinecone index.

Tools

• semantic-search: Search for records in the Pinecone index.
• read-document: Read a document from the Pinecone index.
• list-documents: List all documents in the Pinecone index.
• pinecone-stats: Get stats about the Pinecone index, including the number of records, dimensions, and namespaces.
• process-document: Process a document into chunks and upsert them into the Pinecone index. This performs the overall steps of chunking, embedding, and upserting. Note: embeddings are generated via Pinecone's inference API and chunking is done with a token-based chunker.

Quickstart# Installing via Smithery

To install Pinecone MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-pinecone --client claude

Install the server

Recommend using uv to install the server locally for Claude.

uvx install mcp-pinecone

OR

uv pip install mcp-pinecone

Add your config as described below.

Claude Desktop

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json Note: You might need to use the direct path to uv. Use which uv to find the path.

Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration

"mcpServers": {
  "mcp-pinecone": {
    "command": "uv",
    "args": [ "--directory", "{project_dir}", "run", "mcp-pinecone" ]
  }
}

Published Servers Configuration

"mcpServers": {
  "mcp-pinecone": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [ "--index-name", "{your-index-name}", "--api-key", "{your-secret-api-key}", "mcp-pinecone" ]
  }
}

Sign up to Pinecone

You can sign up for a Pinecone account here.

Get an API key

Create a new index in Pinecone, replacing {your-index-name} and get an API key from the Pinecone dashboard, replacing {your-secret-api-key} in the config.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.