# pinecone:assistant

> Claude/Codex skill by [@pinecone-io](https://omgskills.com/library/pinecone-io/index.md) · 69 stars · Updated 2026-09-09

Create, manage, and chat with Pinecone Assistants for document Q&A with citations. Handles all assistant operations - create, upload, sync, chat, context retrieval, and list. Recognizes natural language like "create an assistant from my docs", "ask my assistant about X", or "upload my docs to Pinecone".

Tags: anthropic-claude, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-code-plugin-marketplace, hybrid-search, mcp, pinecone, retrieval-augmented-generation, semantic-search, skills, vector-database

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin /tmp/pinecone-claude-code-plugin && ln -s /tmp/pinecone-claude-code-plugin/skills/assistant ~/.claude/skills/pinecone:assistant
```

## From README

Pinecone Assistant Pinecone Assistant is a fully managed RAG service. Upload documents, ask questions, get cited answers. No embedding pipelines or infrastructure required. All scripts are in scripts/ relative to this skill directory. Run with: uv run scripts/scriptname.py \[arguments\] Whenever this skill asks the user to choose between options, confirm a destructive step, or pick from a list, use the AskUserQuestion tool rather than plain prose. Fall back to prose only if the tool is unavailable.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin/skills/assistant/
- GitHub: https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin
- Author: [@pinecone-io](https://omgskills.com/library/pinecone-io/index.md)

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