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 either export it in your terminal:

  export PINECONE_API_KEY="your-key"
  

  Or add it to a .env file if your IDE doesn't inherit shell variables: PINECONE_API_KEY=your-key

Optional (unlock more capabilities)