Pinecone Quickstart

Welcome! This skill walks you through your first Pinecone experience using the tools available to you. In this quickstart, you will learn how to do a simple form of semantic search over some example data.

Prerequisites

Before starting either path, verify the API key works by calling list-indexes via the Pinecone MCP. If it succeeds, proceed. If it fails, ask the user to set their key:

• Terminal: export PINECONE_API_KEY="your-key"
• Or create a .env file in the project root: PINECONE_API_KEY=your-key

Then retry list-indexes to confirm.

Step 0: Choose Your Path

Ask the user which path they want: