pinecone-io / skills
✓ Official★ 14A skill package that teaches your agent 8 capabilities — every one documented and browsable below, no GitHub required · by pinecone-io.
Each skill below is one capability this package teaches your agent. Install the whole package, or open a skill to install just that one.
Create, manage, and chat with Pinecone Assistants for document Q&A with citations. Handles all assistant operations - create, upload, sync, chat, context…
15 files — installable on its own
Guide for using the Pinecone CLI (pc) to manage Pinecone resources from the terminal. The CLI supports ALL index types (standard, integrated, sparse) and all…
4 files — installable on its own
Curated documentation reference for developers building with Pinecone. Contains links to official docs organized by topic and data format references. Use when…
3 files — installable on its own
Create, ingest into, and query a Pinecone full-text-search (FTS) index using the preview API (2026-01.alpha, public preview). Use when the user or agent asks…
8 files — installable on its own
Overview of all available Pinecone skills and what a user needs to get started. Invoke when a user asks what skills are available, how to get started with…
1 file — installable on its own
Reference for the Pinecone MCP server tools. Documents all available tools - list-indexes, describe-index, describe-index-stats, create-index-for-model,…
1 file — installable on its own
Query integrated indexes using text with Pinecone MCP. IMPORTANT - This skill ONLY works with integrated indexes (indexes with built-in Pinecone embedding…
1 file — installable on its own
Interactive Pinecone quickstart for new developers. Choose between two paths - Database (create an integrated index, upsert data, and query using Pinecone MCP…
4 files — installable on its own
Pinecone Agent Skills
Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. Use it to build semantic search, retrieval augmented generation, recommendation systems, and agentic applications.
This is Pinecone's official Agent Skills library, compatible with agentic IDEs such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, and more. Skills follow the Agent Skills standard.
Installation
npx skills add pinecone-io/skillsUsing Claude Code? Try our official plugin instead.
Skills
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
pinecone-quickstart | Step-by-step onboarding — create an index, upload data, and run your first search |
pinecone-query | Search integrated indexes using natural language text via the Pinecone MCP |
pinecone-cli | Use the Pinecone CLI (pc) for terminal-based index and vector management across all index types |
pinecone-assistant | Create, manage, and chat with Pinecone Assistants for document Q&A with citations |
pinecone-mcp | Reference for all Pinecone MCP server tools and their parameters |
pinecone-full-text-search | Build a full-text-search index — schema design, safe bulk ingestion, and query construction (text / query_string / dense / sparse scoring with text-match and metadata filters) |
pinecone-docs | Curated links to official Pinecone documentation, organized by topic |
pinecone-n8n | Build n8n workflows with the Pinecone Assistant node or Pinecone Vector Store node, including best practices and full workflow JSON generation |
pinecone-help | Overview of all skills and what you need to get started |
Prerequisites
- Pinecone account — free at app.pinecone.io
- API key — create one in the console, then
export PINECONE_API_KEY="your-key" - Pinecone MCP (optional) — enables the
queryskill and agent-native index operations. Setup guide - Pinecone CLI (optional) — enables the
cliskill.brew install pinecone-io/tap/pinecone - uv (optional) — runs the bundled Python scripts. Install uv
Development
Validate all skills against the Agent Skills spec:
uv run tools/check-skills.py --skills-dir skillsCheck for broken links:
uv run tools/check-links.py --skills-dir skillsCheck source tag conventions in scripts:
uv run tools/check-source-tags.py --dir skillsInstall the whole package (8 skills):
npx skills add https://github.com/pinecone-io/skillsOr install a single skill:
npx skills add https://github.com/pinecone-io/skills --skill <name>Pick the skill name from the Skills tab — each entry there installs independently.