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   "date": "2026-09-05",
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
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   "note": "pc authenticates with user login, a service account, or an API key via pc auth configure --api-key or PINECONE_API_KEY. API keys cannot call the Admin API.",
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
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   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "fact": "modalities.rpa.ui_stack[0]",
   "note": "Pinecone documents a web console for creating and managing project API keys.",
   "source": "https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/projects/manage-api-keys",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "fact": "modalities.rpa.drivability",
   "note": "The console is a web UI. No repeatable UI probe was run, so drivability stays unknown.",
   "source": "https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/projects/manage-api-keys",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "fact": "modalities.agent_docs.llms_txt",
   "note": "Opened a real docs llms.txt that indexes Pinecone Database, Assistant, Nexus, APIs, and related guides for agents.",
   "source": "https://docs.pinecone.io/llms.txt",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
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   "source": "https://docs.pinecone.io/reference/api/introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.mcp",
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   "source": "https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/operations/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.cli",
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   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened the current Pinecone Database MCP guide, including the integrated-embedding constraint and the Assistant MCP pointer.",
   "source": "https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/operations/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
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   "source": "https://docs.pinecone.io/reference/api/introduction",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened the current pc CLI quickstart, including JSON output and install notes.",
   "source": "https://docs.pinecone.io/reference/cli/quickstart",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[3].url",
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   "tier": "declared"
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   {
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   {
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   ]
  },
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  },
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  },
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   ],
   "import": []
  },
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   "webhooks": "unknown"
  },
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   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
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   "third_party": [],
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  },
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   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. The Pinecone REST API, official SDKs, pc CLI, and @pinecone-database/mcp cover index and record work without browser control.\n",
   "ui_stack": [
    "web-dom"
   ],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
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   "languages": [
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    "javascript",
    "java",
    "go"
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 "name": "Pinecone",
 "platforms": [
  "web"
 ],
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   "elasticsearch",
   "supabase"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
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 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
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  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
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   "cli": 8,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": 7,
   "overall": 8,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "Pinecone Database is automatable today through a public REST API. This record is the Pinecone Database index product. It is not Elasticsearch and it is not Pinecone Assistant. Control-plane calls go to https://api.pinecone.io. Data-plane query and upsert go to the index host. Requests send an Api-Key header and X-Pinecone-Api-Version. The Database API covers indexes, namespaces, vectors, search, imports, backups, and hosted inference embed and rerank. Official SDKs exist for Python (pinecone), Node.js (@pinecone-database/pinecone), Java, and Go. The official pc CLI prints JSON with -j, authenticates in CI with PINECONE_API_KEY or a service account, and manages indexes, vectors, namespaces, backups, and object-storage imports. The first-party MCP package @pinecone-database/mcp runs over stdio with PINECONE_API_KEY. Named tools are search-docs, list-indexes, describe-index, describe-index-stats, create-index-for-model, upsert-records, search-records, cascading-search, and rerank-documents. That MCP path supports only indexes with integrated embedding. Indexes that store vectors from external embedding models are not supported by MCP. The REST API and CLI do support bring-your-own-vector indexes. A separate Assistant MCP at a per-assistant host is out of this boundary. Plans include a free Starter tier. Computer-use viability is unassessed. API and CLI both score 8; API is the best path because it covers both index types without a local CLI install.\n"
 }
}