Issue with Pinecone File Retrieval Tool

Issue with Using My New n8n Agent

I’ve split my setup into two parts.

First part (Drive to Pinecone)

The first workflow watches a specific Google Drive folder, downloads new files, processes them using OpenAI embeddings, splits the text, and stores them in Pinecone. It seems to be working perfectly. The output is as expected, and I haven’t encountered any issues. I activated this workflow and attempted to use it in another workflow.

It seems to be working fine, and I see no issues there.

Second part (Basic Agent Example)

In the second workflow, I set up an AI agent that should be able to retrieve documents from my Google Drive using Pinecone as a vector store. However, it doesn’t seem to recognize or retrieve any files.

When I ask about my documents, the agent responds with “I don’t know” instead of retrieving them. Even a simple request like “show me all content of my files” doesn’t work, despite having only one small file stored.

Observations & Questions

Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version: Version 1.81.4
  • Database (default: SQLite): Window Buffer Memory
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): im new, idk what I should put there
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Docker
  • Operating system: MacOS 18

You may have to massively improve your system prompt and tool descriptions to more clearly define how and when to use designated tools.

But how? Im making whole thing step by step with tutorial from there:

Ań there everything works fine.

I also see it works pretty fine because this ai agent getting into that tools:


Interesting, does he provide a direct JSON download for the workflow? Have you copied him directly? It works for him? (could review video myself later potentially)

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