# pinecone:help

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

Overview of all available Pinecone skills and what a user needs to get started. Invoke when a user asks what skills are available, how to get started with Pinecone, or what they need to set up before using any Pinecone skill.

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/help ~/.claude/skills/pinecone:help
```

## From README

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. Invoke any skill from chat with /pinecone: — for example /pinecone:quickstart or /pinecone:n8n. --- 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 make it available to this environment: Run export PINECONEAPIKEY="your-key" in your terminal. Claude Code reads your shell environment, so this is enough. To use a .env file instead, run scripts with uv run --env-file .env scripts/....

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin/skills/help/
- 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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