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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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Set up

Skills are installed by placing their folder where your agent loads skills.

Install instructions come from the README

Skills do not use an MCP config. Follow the steps in the README below; one-click install arrives with accounts.

README

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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/skills

Using 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 query skill and agent-native index operations. Setup guide
Pinecone CLI (optional) — enables the cli skill. 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 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