Here are common categories and problems that cause installation issues.

Installation

• Node isn’t installed
• Node version is outdated (run: npm install @latest -g)
• Yarn isn’t installed on your machine (run: npm install -g yarn)
• .env file is missing.
• .env file contains the wrong credentials (or clashes with global environment variables).

OpenAI

• Missing card on OpenAI’s billing account: https://platform.openai.com/account/billing/payment-methods
• You’ve run out of OpenAI credits: https://platform.openai.com/account/usage
• API key is invalid.

Pinecone

• Invalid environment and index name in your .env file.
• Your environment is restricted to gcp-starter on the free plan. This environment is limited and cannot use namespaces or delete all vectors. The solution here is to either upgrade to a paid plan allowing you to change environment OR use a different vectorstore i.e. supabase.
• Vector dimensions is not set to 1536.
• Pinecone namespace is not in lowercase.
• Attempting to query by integer. Pinecone stores vectors in uuid.
• Pinecone indexes of users on the Starter(free) plan are deleted after 7 days of inactivity. To prevent this, send an API request to Pinecone to reset the counter before 7 days.
• Pinecone index is corrupted. Retry from scratch with a new Pinecone project, index, and cloned repo.

Files