MCP Server

PinRAG MCP Server

Name: PinRAG MCP Server
Author: io.github.ndjordjevic

io.github.ndjordjevic/pinrag

Repository Registry

What is the PinRAG MCP server?

MCP RAG: index PDFs, repos, YouTube, Discord, text; optional YouTube vision; query with citations.

How to install PinRAG

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

OPENROUTER_API_KEY
required
secret
OpenRouter API key — required for the default chat LLM (PINRAG_LLM_PROVIDER defaults to openrouter). Get a key at openrouter.ai.
PINRAG_PERSIST_DIR
Absolute path to the Chroma vector store directory (recommended so indexes are not tied to the server process cwd).

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pinrag": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pinrag",
        "--refresh",
        "pinrag"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "PINRAG_PERSIST_DIR": "<YOUR_PINRAG_PERSIST_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pinrag": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pinrag",
        "--refresh",
        "pinrag"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "PINRAG_PERSIST_DIR": "<YOUR_PINRAG_PERSIST_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pinrag": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pinrag",
        "--refresh",
        "pinrag"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "PINRAG_PERSIST_DIR": "<YOUR_PINRAG_PERSIST_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "pinrag": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pinrag",
        "--refresh",
        "pinrag"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "PINRAG_PERSIST_DIR": "<YOUR_PINRAG_PERSIST_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add pinrag --env OPENROUTER_API_KEY=<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY> --env PINRAG_PERSIST_DIR=<YOUR_PINRAG_PERSIST_DIR> -- uvx pinrag --refresh pinrag