assistant

A managed Pinecone service for asking questions about uploaded documents and receiving answers with citations, without building the document-search infrastructure yourself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create document assistants, upload or sync files, ask questions, retrieve relevant excerpts, and list assistants or their files.
Why use it?
It removes the need to create your own document-processing and search pipeline, while keeping answers tied to source passages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pinecone-io/gemini-cli-extension/assistant
Any agent
npx skills add pinecone-io/gemini-cli-extension --skill assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pinecone-io/gemini-cli-extension

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 806 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00068 $0.00806
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00403
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00081

Measured 3d ago against content hash 04f7e688221a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assistant 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/chat.py, scripts/context.py, scripts/create.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/assistant/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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]

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/.


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

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

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

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

Context: "search my assistant for X", "find context about X" → See 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

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 79 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 04f7e688221a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

assistant is a skill published in the GitHub repository pinecone-io/gemini-cli-extension (23 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 806 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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.

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