pinecone:query

pinecone:query is a skill for Claude Code from pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,139 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A text-search skill for Pinecone integrated indexes, which are searchable data stores with built-in systems that turn text into searchable representations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find records in a Pinecone integrated index with text queries. It does not apply to standard indexes or searches using custom vectors.
Why use it?
It lets you search records using ordinary language without creating the search representations yourself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the pinecone plugin — 9 skills, 1 command, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to find records in a Pinecone integrated index with text queries. It does not apply to standard indexes or searches using custom vectors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin/query
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pinecone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,139 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 69
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00074 $0.01139
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00456
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00114

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1a24f97102b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pinecone:query 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/query/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pinecone Query Skill

Search for records in Pinecone integrated indexes using natural language text queries via the Pinecone MCP server.

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.

What is this skill for?

This skill provides a simple way to query integrated indexes (indexes with built-in Pinecone embedding models) using text queries. The MCP server automatically converts your text into embeddings and searches the index.

Prerequisites

Required:

  1. ✅ Pinecone MCP server must be configured - Check if MCP tools are available
  2. ✅ PINECONE_API_KEY environment variable must be set - Get a free API key at https://app.pinecone.io/?sessionType=signup
  3. ✅ Index must be an integrated index - Uses Pinecone embedding models (e.g., multilingual-e5-large, llama-text-embed-v2, pinecone-sparse-english-v0)

When NOT to use this skill

Use the pinecone:cli skill instead if:

  • ❌ Your index is a standard index (no integrated embedding model)
  • ❌ You need to query with custom vector values (not text)
  • ❌ You need advanced vector operations (fetch by ID, list vectors, bulk operations)
  • ❌ Your index uses third-party embedding models (OpenAI, HuggingFace, Cohere)

MCP Limitation: The Pinecone MCP currently only supports integrated indexes. For all other use cases, use the pinecone:cli skill.

How it works

Utilize Pinecone MCP's search-records tool to search for records within a specified Pinecone integrated index using a text query.

Workflow

IMPORTANT: Before proceeding, verify the Pinecone MCP tools are available. If MCP tools are not accessible:

  • Inform the user that the Pinecone MCP server needs to be configured
  • Check if PINECONE_API_KEY environment variable is set
  • Direct them to the MCP setup documentation or the pinecone:help skill
  1. Parse the user's input for:
    • query (required): The text to search for.
    • index (required): The name of the Pinecone index to search.
    • namespace (optional): The namespace within the index.
    • reranker (optional): The reranking model to use for improved relevance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 1mo ago First seen · 89 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 1a24f97102b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pinecone:query is a skill published in the GitHub repository pinecone-io/pinecone-claude-code-plugin (69 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,139 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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