Assistant

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/.

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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](references/create.md)

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

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

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

Context: "search my assistant for X", "find context about X" → See [references/context.md](references/context.md)

List: "show my assistants", "what assistants do I have" → Run uv run scripts/list.py

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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

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Multi-Step Requests

Handle chained requests naturally. Example:

> "Create an assistant called docs-bot, upload my ./docs folder, and ask what the main features are"

1. uv run scripts/create.py --name docs-bot
2. uv run scripts/upload.py --assistant docs-bot --source ./docs
3. uv run scripts/chat.py --assistant docs-bot --message "what are the main features?"

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Prerequisites

• PINECONE_API_KEY must be available — terminal: export PINECONE_API_KEY="your-key", or add to a .env file and run scripts with uv run --env-file .env scripts/...
• uv must be installed — install uv
• Get a free API key at: https://app.pinecone.io/?sessionType=signup

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: pinecone-io
• Source: pinecone-io/gemini-cli-extension
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.