Pinecone Assistant MCP Server

An MCP server implementation for retrieving information from Pinecone Assistant.

Local serverstdio

What is the Pinecone Assistant MCP Server?

Pinecone Assistant MCP Server is an MCP project maintained in the pinecone-io/assistant-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “An MCP server implementation for retrieving information from Pinecone Assistant”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

Local setup

The project provides a local client configuration using docker. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.

Configuration values

The example declares PINECONE_API_KEY, PINECONE_ASSISTANT_HOST. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.

Source

Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.

How to install the Pinecone Assistant MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pinecone-assistant": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "PINECONE_API_KEY",
        "-e",
        "PINECONE_ASSISTANT_HOST",
        "pinecone/assistant-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PINECONE_API_KEY": "YOUR_PINECONE_API_KEY",
        "PINECONE_ASSISTANT_HOST": "<YOUR_PINECONE_ASSISTANT_HOST_HERE>"
      }
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
PINECONE_API_KEYDeclared in the maintainer’s client configuration.Yes
PINECONE_ASSISTANT_HOSTDeclared in the maintainer’s client configuration.Optional