// 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.
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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.
export PINECONE_API_KEY="your-key"
| 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 |
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
quickstart | Step-by-step onboarding — create an index, upload data, and run your first search |
query | Search integrated indexes using natural language text via the Pinecone MCP |
cli | Use the Pinecone CLI (pc) for terminal-based index and vector management |
assistant | Create, manage, and chat with Pinecone Assistants for document Q&A with citations |
mcp | Reference for all Pinecone MCP server tools and their parameters |
pinecone-docs | Curated links to official Pinecone documentation, organized by topic |
Just getting started? → quickstart
Want to search an index you already have?
query (uses MCP)cliWorking with documents and Q&A? → assistant
Need to manage indexes, bulk upload vectors, or automate workflows? → cli
Looking up API parameters or SDK usage? → pinecone-docs
Need to understand what MCP tools are available? → mcp
Issues using Pinecone here?
Query integrated indexes using text with Pinecone MCP. IMPORTANT - This skill ONLY works with integrated indexes (indexes with built-in Pinecone embedding models like multilingual-e5-large). For standard indexes or advanced vector operations, use the CLI skill instead. Requires PINECONE_API_KEY environment variable and Pinecone MCP server to be configured.
Interactive Pinecone quickstart for new developers. Choose between two paths - Database (create an integrated index, upsert data, and query using Pinecone MCP + Python) or Assistant (create a Pinecone Assistant for document Q&A). Use when a user wants to get started with Pinecone for the first time or wants a guided tour of Pinecone's tools.
Create, manage, and chat with Pinecone Assistants for document Q&A with citations. Handles all assistant operations - create, upload, sync, chat, context retrieval, and list. Recognizes natural language like "create an assistant from my docs", "ask my assistant about X", or "upload my docs to Pinecone".
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 vector operations — unlike the MCP which only supports integrated indexes. Use for batch operations, vector management, backups, namespaces, CI/CD automation, and full control over Pinecone resources.
Reference for the Pinecone MCP server tools. Documents all available tools - list-indexes, describe-index, describe-index-stats, create-index-for-model, upsert-records, search-records, cascading-search, and rerank-documents. Use when an agent needs to understand what Pinecone MCP tools are available, how to use them, or what parameters they accept.
Curated documentation reference for developers building with Pinecone. Contains links to official docs organized by topic and data format references. Use when writing Pinecone code, looking up API parameters, or needing the correct format for vectors or records.