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 "generated": "2026-10-26",
 "id": "margelo-ai-chat-demo--point-knowledge-base-tool-at-own-index",
 "repo": "margelo/ai-chat-demo",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/margelo/ai-chat-demo",
 "repo_slug": "margelo-ai-chat-demo",
 "title": "Point the knowledge base tool at your own Pinecone index",
 "page_title": "How to point the knowledge base tool at your own Pinecone index with AI Chat Demo",
 "summary": "Reuse the chat app and retrieval tool with your own Pinecone index and text content.",
 "who": "A developer or product team with their own documentation who wants a mobile assistant that answers only from that content.",
 "problem": "Building a retrieval-backed chat that answers only from a specific body of text means wiring a streamed model, a search tool, and a mobile UI together.",
 "outcome": "The assistant answers questions from your index, and the answers draw on the retrieved text instead of the model's memory.",
 "steps": [
  "Create a Pinecone index with integrated embedding and load your text into it, since the README says raw text goes up and Pinecone embeds it server-side.",
  "Open `src/config.ts` and set the Pinecone key and your new index host.",
  "Read `app/src/rag/searchKnowledgeBase.ts` and update the system behavior that tells the model to answer Margelo questions only from retrieved context, changing the topic to your own.",
  "Run `npm run typecheck` to confirm the changes compile.",
  "Run `npm run ios` or `npm run android` and test questions that you know the index can answer."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "In the margelo/ai-chat-demo repo, change the knowledge base search to use the Pinecone index host <your index host> and adjust the retrieval instructions for <your topic>. Run npm run typecheck and report the result, then ask one question you know the index answers and confirm the reply uses retrieved text.",
 "agents": [
  "any"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Advanced",
 "time": "2 hours",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The README does not describe how to populate the index, so the content loading step depends on your own Pinecone process.",
 "category": "Software and DevOps",
 "tags": [
  "Software and DevOps"
 ],
 "lang": "typescript",
 "requirements": [
  "Xcode and CocoaPods for iOS, or the Android setup from the React Native environment guide",
  "Node 22.11 or newer",
  "An OpenAI API key",
  "A Pinecone API key, a populated Pinecone index, and its index host"
 ],
 "risk": "sensitive",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [
  {
   "tag": "credentials",
   "notice": "Your Pinecone and OpenAI keys go into the app bundle under this demo setup, so limit their scope and rotate them after testing."
  }
 ],
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 "score": 0.9,
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