Agent Skills

Connect Pinecone and Agent Skills to ship vector search and RAG: embed, index, and query at scale with managed infrastructure.

Pinecone’s official Agent Skills library brings Pinecone capabilities to any agentic IDE that supports the Agent Skills standard. Use skills to manage indexes, run semantic search, create document Q&A assistants, and more — all through natural language in your IDE.

Compatible with GitHub Copilot, Codex, and other agentic IDEs.

If you use Claude Code, install the dedicated Pinecone plugin for Claude Code instead. If you use Gemini CLI, install the dedicated Pinecone extension for Gemini CLI instead. If you use Cursor, install the dedicated Pinecone plugin for Cursor instead. Each includes additional features specific to that tool.

Features

• Built-in skills for index management, semantic search, full-text search, assistant creation, and more
• Universal compatibility with any IDE that supports Agent Skills
• Works with the Pinecone MCP server for direct index operations

Prerequisites

• A Pinecone API key
• Node.js installed (for npx)
• Pinecone MCP server configured in your IDE (optional, enables the query skill)
• uv installed (optional, runs bundled Python scripts)
• Pinecone CLI installed (optional, enables the cli skill)

Installation

1. Set your API key

   export PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
   

   Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your Pinecone API key.

2. Install the skills

   npx skills add pinecone-io/skills
   

   This downloads Pinecone’s skills into your project, making them available to your IDE’s AI agent.

3. Configure the MCP server (optional)

   For full functionality, configure the Pinecone MCP server in your IDE. This enables the query skill and direct index operations.

Available skills

Skill	Description
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.
assistant	Create, manage, and chat with Pinecone Assistants for document Q&A with citations.
cli	Use the Pinecone CLI for terminal-based index and vector management across all index types.
full-text-search	Create, ingest into, and query a Pinecone full-text-search (FTS) index using the preview API.
n8n	Build n8n workflows with the Pinecone Assistant node or Pinecone Vector Store, including best practices and full workflow JSON generation.
mcp	Reference for all available Pinecone MCP server tools and their parameters.
pinecone-docs	Curated links to official Pinecone documentation, organized by topic.
help	Overview of all skills and what you need to get started.

MCP tools

Agent Skills work alongside the Pinecone MCP server, which provides tools for listing indexes, creating indexes, upserting records, searching, reranking, and more. Configure the MCP server in your IDE to enable the query skill and direct index operations.

For the full list of MCP tools, see Use the Pinecone MCP server.

Resources

• GitHub repository
• Pinecone MCP server guide