Pinecone Quickstart
Interactive Pinecone onboarding: build a vector index or a document Q&A assistant, step by step.
Test report
- Verdict
- Works with setup
- Score
- Tested
- Jul 15, 2026
- Environment
- Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
- Upstream re-checked
- Aug 10, 2026 · f859b11
Path A (Database) is fully self-contained and its bundled upsert.py/quickstart_complete.py compile and run cleanly against real Pinecone SDK calls; Path B (Assistant) calls `../assistant/scripts/create.py` — a sibling skill folder that isn't included if you copy only `skills/quickstart`, so a standalone install silently breaks half the skill.
Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works
- Installs cleanly 4/5
- Triggers reliably 5/5
- Output vs. baseline 8/10
- Docs & honesty 3/5
What Pinecone Quickstart does
Walks a new Pinecone user through creating an integrated vector index, upserting sample data, and running semantic search queries (Database path), or building a document Q&A Assistant (Assistant path). Triggers when a user wants to get started with Pinecone for the first time or wants a guided tour of its MCP/CLI tools.
How to install Pinecone Quickstart
git clone https://github.com/pinecone-io/gemini-cli-extension
cd gemini-cli-extension
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r skills/quickstart ~/.claude/skills/quickstart
Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/
(per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.
Commands — how to trigger Pinecone Quickstart
-
/quickstartInteractive Pinecone onboarding: build a vector index or a document Q&A assistant, step by step.
It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:
-
Walk me through creating a Pinecone vector index step by step -
Help me build a document Q&A assistant using Pinecone -
Show me how to run a semantic search over sample data in Pinecone
Frequently asked questions
- Is the Pinecone Quickstart skill free?
- Yes. The skill itself is free from pinecone-io/gemini-cli-extension. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
- Does Pinecone Quickstart work with Claude Code?
- We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 15, 2026. Verdict: Works with setup. Path A (Database) is fully self-contained and its bundled upsert.py/quickstart_complete.py compile and run cleanly against real Pinecone SDK calls; Path B (Assistant) calls `../assistant/scripts/create.py` — a sibling skill folder that isn't included if you copy only `skills/quickstart`, so a standalone install silently breaks half the skill.
- What is the Pinecone Quickstart SkillProof Score?
- 8.0/10 — installs cleanly 4/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 3/5.
- How do I install Pinecone Quickstart?
- Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
- Can I use Pinecone Quickstart with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?
- The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.