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Open Policy Agent compiles authorization decisions into Pinecone metadata filters

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Endpoints: OPA policy decision and compile API layer (Policy) + Pinecone metadata-filter search surface (Retrieval)
Mechanism: OPA–Pinecone filtered retrieval runbook
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Open Policy Agent can be used in a filtered-retrieval runbook where policy decisions are evaluated or compiled into constraints that an application maps onto Pinecone's native metadata filters before search, helping enforce identity-aware retrieval boundaries.

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Open Policy Agent documents its REST APIs for policy evaluation and compilation, including partial evaluation that can produce residual constraints for downstream systems.

REST API - Open Policy Agent Docs
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Pinecone documents metadata filter expressions directly in its search API, including operators such as $eq, $and, and $or to constrain retrieval results before they are returned.

Filter by metadata - Pinecone Docs