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.

Invoke any skill from chat with /pinecone:<skill-name> — for example /pinecone:quickstart or /pinecone:n8n.

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 make it available to this environment:
  • Run export PINECONE_API_KEY="your-key" in your terminal. Claude Code reads your shell environment, so this is enough.
• To use a .env file instead, run scripts with uv run --env-file .env scripts/....