# pinecone-assistant

> Claude/Codex skill by [@pinecone-io](https://omgskills.com/library/pinecone-io/index.md) · 15 stars · Updated 2026-09-18

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: agent-skills, agents, pinecone, retrieval-augmented-generation, semantic-search, skills-sh

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/pinecone-io/skills /tmp/skills && ln -s /tmp/skills/skills/pinecone-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 \[arguments\] Operations | What to do | Script | Key args | |---|---|---| | Create an assistant | scripts/create.py | --name --instructions --region | | Upload files | scripts/upload.py | --assistant --source --patterns | | Sync files (incremental) | scripts/sync.py | --assistant --source --delete-missing --dry-run | | Chat / ask a question | scripts/chat.py | --assistant --message | | Get context snippets | scripts/context.py | --assistant --query --top-k | | List assistants | scripts/list.py | --files --json | For full workflow details on any operation, read the relevant file in references/.

## Links

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

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