pinecone:mcp

A reference guide to the tools provided by the Pinecone MCP server. MCP is a way for an AI agent or development environment to call external tools, such as listing indexes, adding records, searching, and reranking results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent needs to inspect indexes, create an integrated index, add or search records, view index statistics, or rerank documents.
Why use it?
It gives an agent the details needed to choose and use Pinecone operations correctly. It also explains that these tools work only with Pinecone integrated indexes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin/mcp
Any agent
npx skills add pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin --skill mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,136 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00080 $0.01136
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00568
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00114

Measured 2d ago against content hash f7c0d254efed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pinecone:mcp scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/mcp/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pinecone MCP Tools Reference

The Pinecone MCP server exposes the following tools to AI agents and IDEs. For setup and installation instructions, see the MCP server guide.

Key Limitation: The Pinecone MCP only supports integrated indexes — indexes created with a built-in Pinecone embedding model. It does not work with standard indexes using external embedding models. For those, use the Pinecone CLI.


list-indexes

List all indexes in the current Pinecone project.


describe-index

Get configuration details for a specific index — cloud, region, dimension, metric, embedding model, field map, and status.

Parameters:

  • name (required) — Index name

describe-index-stats

Get statistics for an index including total record count and per-namespace breakdown.

Parameters:

  • name (required) — Index name

create-index-for-model

Create a new serverless index with an integrated embedding model. Pinecone handles embedding automatically — no external model needed.

Parameters:

  • name (required) — Index name
  • cloud (required) — aws, gcp, or azure
  • region (required) — Cloud region (e.g. us-east-1)
  • embed.model (required) — Embedding model: llama-text-embed-v2, multilingual-e5-large, or pinecone-sparse-english-v0
  • embed.fieldMap.text (required) — The record field that contains text to embed (e.g. chunk_text)

upsert-records

Insert or update records in an integrated index. Records are automatically embedded using the index's configured model.

Parameters:

  • name (required) — Index name
  • namespace (required) — Namespace to upsert into
  • records (required) — Array of records. Each record must have an id or _id field and contain the text field specified in the index's fieldMap. Do not nest fields under metadata — put them directly on the record.

Example record:

{ "_id": "rec1", "chunk_text": "The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889.", "category": "architecture" }

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 108 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A f7c0d254efed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pinecone:mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin (68 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,136 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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