Pinecone - MCP (Tool for vector search - RAG)

📘 Integrating the Pinecone MCP Server with NicoChat

✅ What is the Pinecone MCP Server?

The Pinecone MCP Server lets NicoChat connect directly to your Pinecone vector database.
With it, the AI can efficiently run vector searches (RAG), insert embeddings and retrieve relevant context.

✅ How to generate the MCP Server URL in Pinecone

Step by step:

• Go to your Pinecone account dashboard:
  www.pinecone.io/
• In the side menu, click “Assistants”.
• Click “Create Assistant”.
• Choose a name for your Assistant (example: nicochat-assistant).
• Once created, Pinecone will show the unique MCP Server URL, which will look like this:

Copy the URL exactly as provided.

✅ How to get the API Key (Access Token)

Authentication is done with a Bearer Token, using your Pinecone API Key.

Follow these steps:

• In the Pinecone dashboard, go to the API Keys section.
• Generate a new key or copy the existing one.
• Store this API Key securely — it will be used inside NicoChat.

✅ How to register the Pinecone MCP Server in NicoChat

• In the NicoChat side menu, go to:

• Fill in the fields as follows:

• Click List Tools so NicoChat fetches the tools available on that MCP Server.
• Select only the tools you want to enable for the AI.
  Example: ✅ get_context (to fetch vector context).

✅ Configuration example:

📌 Learn more about how to set this up in your flow at:
👉 MCP Servers