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title: "Pinecone: setup for Claude, Cursor, Codex · DotsAgent"
description: "Search Pinecone docs, and create, upsert into and query Pinecone vector indexes from a local server. Set up Pinecone in 13 MCP clients."
url: https://dotsagent.io/mcp/servers/pinecone
---

Models and memory · Pinecone

# Set up Pinecone

Search Pinecone docs, and create, upsert into and query Pinecone vector indexes from a local server.

- **Publisher**: Pinecone Official
- **Run locally**: `npx -y @pinecone-database/mcp`
- **Transports**: stdio
- **Authentication**: A Pinecone API key in PINECONE_API_KEY.
- **Environment**: `PINECONE_API_KEY`
- **What it can touch**: Read and write on your indexes.
- **Licence**: Apache-2.0
- **Source**: [github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp](https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp)
- **Status**: Active

## Install

This server runs on your machine as a child process of the client. You need the runtime its command uses, such as Node.js for npx, uv for uvx or Docker, plus any variables listed under Environment.

### Claude Code

`shell`

```
claude mcp add --scope project --env PINECONE_API_KEY='<PINECONE_API_KEY>' pinecone -- npx -y @pinecone-database/mcp
```

### Cursor

`.cursor/mcp.json`

```
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pinecone": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pinecone-database/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PINECONE_API_KEY": "${env:PINECONE_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

`~/.codex/config.toml`

```
[mcp_servers.pinecone]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@pinecone-database/mcp"]
env_vars = ["PINECONE_API_KEY"]
```

[Config for other clients →](https://dotsagent.io/mcp/config#add=pinecone)

## Other servers in models and memory

- [Memory](https://dotsagent.io/mcp/servers/memory): Keeps a knowledge graph of entities and relations in a local file so the agent can recall facts between sessions.

- [Sequential Thinking](https://dotsagent.io/mcp/servers/sequential-thinking): Gives the model a scratchpad for breaking a problem into numbered thoughts it can revise or branch.

- [Hugging Face](https://dotsagent.io/mcp/servers/hugging-face): Search Hub models, datasets, papers and docs, and call Gradio Spaces as tools, hosted by Hugging Face.

## Sources

1. [github.com](https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp)/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp

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