diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 7e3ad27128f3cdd09c40ce555b0882dd32d78618..4e13b9382771a2da57007ebe4170d098e99a72cb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           python -m nltk.downloader punkt stopwords wordnet
       - name: Pytest
+        env:
+          PINECONE_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.PINECONE_API_KEY }}
         run: |
           make test
       - name: Upload coverage to Codecov