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.

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 export it in your terminal:

  export PINECONE_API_KEY="your-key"
  

  Note: Claude Code inherits your shell environment, so the export above is sufficient.

Optional (unlock more capabilities)