Cerbos translates authorization policies into native Pinecone query filters
Cerbos documents that its query plan API can translate authorization policy into Pinecone-compatible metadata filters before retrieval, allowing Pillar A identity-aware authorization to constrain which vectors and document chunks Pinecone returns in a RAG workflow.
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Cerbos states that its query plans translate into native filter syntax for Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, Qdrant, and FAISS, with no custom middleware required.
Permissions-aware authorization for RAG pipelines - CerbosCerbos documents that its Query Plan can generate filters from the user's identity and policy context and that those filters are applied to the vector store query before retrieval so only authorized data is returned.
Implementing authorization in RAG-based AI systems - Cerbos DocsPinecone documents metadata filters directly in its search query API, including a `filter` object and operators such as `$eq`, `$and`, and `$or` to constrain search results at retrieval time.
Filter by metadata - Pinecone Docs