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/script_name.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.

Operations

For full workflow details on any operation, read the relevant file in references/.

Natural Language Recognition

Proactively handle these patterns without requiring explicit commands:

Create: "create an assistant", "make an assistant called X", "set up an assistant for my docs" → See [references/create.md](references/create.md)

Upload: "upload my docs", "add files to my assistant", "index my documentation" → See [references/upload.md](references/upload.md)

Sync: "sync my docs", "update my assistant", "keep assistant in sync", "refresh from ./docs" → See [references/sync.md](references/sync.md)

Chat: "ask my assistant about X", "what does my assistant know about X", "chat with X" → See [references/chat.md](references/chat.md)

Context: "search my assistant for X", "find context about X" → See [references/context.md](references/context.md)

List: "show my assistants", "what assistants do I have" → Run uv run scripts/list.py

Conversation Memory

Track the last assistant used within the conversation:

• When a user creates or first uses an assistant, remember its name
• If user says "my assistant", "it", or "the assistant" → use the last one
• Briefly confirm which assistant you're using: "Asking docs-bot..."
• If ambiguous and multiple exist → ask the user to clarify

Multi-Step Requests

Handle chained requests naturally. Example:

"Create an assistant called docs-bot, upload my ./docs folder, and ask what the main features are"

1. uv run scripts/create.py --name docs-bot
2. uv run scripts/upload.py --assistant docs-bot --source ./docs
3. uv run scripts/chat.py --assistant docs-bot --message "what are the main features?"

Prerequisites

• PINECONEAPIKEY must be available:
• 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/....
• uv must be installed — install uv
• Get a free API key at: https://app.pinecone.io/?sessionType=signup