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Add Pinecone to your app or agent and run your first search. Choose the path that fits what you’re searching for.

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Prerequisites

If you use an AI coding agent, the quickest path is to let it do the setup: it designs your schema, ingests your data, and runs your first query, all conversationally. The steps below use Claude Code. Using Cursor, Gemini CLI, or another agent? See all supported IDEs and CLIs for the equivalent setup.
1

Set your API key and install the plugin

The plugin needs Node.js installed (and uv for assistant commands).
Restart Claude Code to activate the plugin.
2

Run the quickstart command

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Manual: Choose your path

Prefer to set it up yourself? Pick the path that matches what you’re searching for. Each path page lists its own setup (Python and SDK versions).
  • Meaning (docs, tickets, knowledge base) — rank by semantic similarity. Then pick based on your embeddings:
    • I have text or files → Ingest your own files. Extract text, chunk it, embed the chunks with Pinecone Inference, and index them. The page starts from sample records, so you can run it with no files of your own and swap in yours later.
    • I already have embeddings → Bring your own vectors. Upsert your vectors directly and rank by similarity.
  • Exact terms (SKUs, IDs, phrases, logs) → Try full-text search. Create an index, load documents, and run a keyword (BM25) search in about five minutes.