Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to pinecone-io/skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pinecone-io/skills/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pinecone-io/skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/pinecone-io/skills/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/pinecone-io/skills/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/pinecone-io/skills/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/pinecone-io/skills/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/pinecone-io/skills/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00517 | $0.00517 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00207 | $0.00207 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00103 | $0.00103 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00052 | $0.00052 |
Grade A, and why
skills CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 34 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Skills Repo — Authoring Guidelines
This is the base skills repo and the only place skills are authored. Skills here must work across any agent environment (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.).
Plugin repos receive generated output. tools/build.py renders this tree per target using the manifests in targets/, and the sync workflow opens a pull request against each plugin repo. Nothing rewrites skills after they leave here, so what you write is what ships. Where a target genuinely needs different wording, base leaves a <<marker>> and each file in targets/ supplies its own text — see targets/README.md.
Generalization Rules
No IDE-specific tool calls in base. Don't name AskUserQuestion or any other tool that isn't universally available. Write plain prose: "ask the user which they prefer."
Where a tool really is the right answer for one target, use a snippet instead of dropping the idea. Base leaves a <<marker>>; each file in targets/ supplies its own wording. That is how AskUserQuestion reaches the Claude Code plugin while Cursor gets prose — see targets/README.md → Snippets. Earlier the rule was a flat ban, which quietly cost the Claude plugin a working feature at 15 sites.
Add a snippet only where the targets truly differ. If one wording is right everywhere, it belongs in base.
Never assume PINECONE_API_KEY is inherited. Always check first. If not set:
- Tell the user to
export PINECONE_API_KEY=...(terminal envs) - Or create a
.envfile and run scripts withuv run --env-file .env scripts/...(IDE envs that don't inherit shell vars)
MCP-dependent skills must say so. If a skill requires MCP, state it in the description and fail fast with a helpful message if tools aren't available.
No IDE-specific language. Avoid phrases like "Claude Code console" or references to specific IDE UI.
No fake API key literals. Never write pcsk_... or similar patterns — use your-key as a placeholder. Security linters will flag fake key patterns.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 517 tokens per session scan A 72d0d3b7ca35
skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository pinecone-io/skills (15 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 517 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
skills CLAUDE.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| skills CLAUDE.mdpinecone-io/skills | Instructions file | 15 | yesterday | MIT | A | 517 | Claude Code |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
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| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 275k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |