help

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description	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 Pinecone, or what they need to set up before using any Pinecone skill.

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.

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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 either export it in your terminal:

  export PINECONE_API_KEY="your-key"
  

Optional (unlock more capabilities)

Tool	What it enables	Install
Pinecone MCP server	Use Pinecone directly inside your AI agent/IDE without writing code	Already installed for you in Gemini CLI!
Pinecone CLI (pc)	Manage all index types from the terminal, batch operations, backups, CI/CD	brew tap pinecone-io/tap && brew install pinecone-io/tap/pinecone
uv	Run the packaged Python scripts included in these skills	Install uv