pinecone:assistant

A skill for creating and managing Pinecone Assistants, which answer questions about uploaded documents and include citations to their sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an assistant, upload or synchronise files, ask questions, retrieve relevant passages, and list assistants.
Why use it?
It lets you ask questions over your documents without building the search and document-processing system yourself.

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/pinecone-claude-code-plugin/assistant
Any agent
npx skills add pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin --skill assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 878 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 $0.00071 $0.00878
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00088

Measured 2d ago against content hash 00e2f473fba6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pinecone: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 2d 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.

skills/assistant/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 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]

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

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

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 2d ago First seen · 85 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 00e2f473fba6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pinecone:assistant is a skill published in the GitHub repository pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin (68 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 878 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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