Repo No. 4Pinecone · Updated 18 September 2026 · In print

Skills Docs · No. 4

Pinecone

pinecone-io / skills

Pinecone’s official Agent Skills library, for use with agentic IDEs such as Cursor, Github Copilot, Antigravity, Gemini CLI and more.

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1 — Install

$ npx skills add pinecone-io/skills

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Contents

pinecone-io/skills · Skills Docs

Provenance

Front matter

From the README

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 (opens in a new tab).

Installation

npx skills add pinecone-io/skills

Using Claude Code? Try our official plugin (opens in a new tab) 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 (opens in a new tab)
API key — create one in the console, then export PINECONE_API_KEY="your-key"
Pinecone MCP (optional) — enables the query skill and agent-native index operations. Setup guide (opens in a new tab)
Pinecone CLI (optional) — enables the cli skill. brew install pinecone-io/tap/pinecone
uv (optional) — runs the bundled Python scripts. Install uv (opens in a new tab)

Development

Validate all skills against the Agent Skills spec:

uv run tools/check-skills.py --skills-dir skills

Check for broken links:

uv run tools/check-links.py --skills-dir skills

Check source tag conventions in scripts:

uv run tools/check-source-tags.py --dir skills

Colophon

How this issue was made

Source

github.com/pinecone-io/skills, branch main, last pushed 18 September 2026.

Licence

MIT — the text of every skill is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.

Discovery

9 skills found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. One layout observed: skills/*/SKILL.md.

Issue colours

Resolved from a deterministic hash of the owner name. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.

Heading repairs

1 repair applied to the front matter so the document has one h1 and no skipped levels:

Shifted “5 headings” from h1 to h2 so the skill title is the only h1.

Spec compliance

Every skill satisfies the Agent Skills specification’s frontmatter rules.

Images

Images inside a skill come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.

Signal

Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.

Agent surfaces

The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /pinecone-io/skills.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.

Publication

Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.

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