Pinecone Skills — Help & Overview

Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. It's useful for building semantic search, retrieval augmented generation, recommendation systems, and agentic applications.

Here's everything you need to get started and a summary of all available skills.

What You Need

Required

• Pinecone account — free to create at https://app.pinecone.io/?sessionType=signup
• API key — create one in the Pinecone console after signing up, then export it in your terminal:

  export PINECONE_API_KEY="your-key"
  

  Note: Claude Code inherits your shell environment, so the export above is sufficient.

Optional (unlock more capabilities)

Available Skills

Which skill should I use?

Just getting started? → pinecone:quickstart

Want to search an index you already have?

• Integrated index (built-in embedding model) → pinecone:query (uses MCP)
• Any other index type → pinecone:cli

Working with documents and Q&A? → pinecone:assistant

Building a full-text search index (BM25-style keyword/phrase matching, optionally combined with dense or sparse vectors)? → pinecone:full-text-search (preview API, needs pinecone Python SDK ≥ 9.0)

Building an n8n workflow with Pinecone (RAG pipeline, chat with docs)? → pinecone:n8n

Need to manage indexes, bulk upload vectors, or automate workflows? → pinecone:cli

Looking up API parameters or SDK usage? → pinecone:docs

Need to understand what MCP tools are available? → pinecone:mcp