pinecone-quickstart SKILL.md skillA

pinecone-quickstart from pinecone-io/pinecone-cursor-plugin is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add pinecone-io/pinecone-cursor-plugin/pinecone-quickstart@git:20260811.3d6515e

Pins git:20260811.3d6515e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
pinecone-io/pinecone-cursor-plugin
Path
skills/pinecone-quickstart/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260811.3d6515e, committed Aug 11, 2026
First version recorded
May 13, 2026
Size
9,371 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Interactive Pinecone quickstart for new developers. Choose between two paths - Database (create an integrated index, upsert data, and query using Pinecone MCP + Python) or Assistant (create a Pinecone Assistant for document Q&A). Use when a user wants to get started with Pinecone for the first time or wants a guided tour of Pinecone's tools.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Pinecone Quickstart

Welcome! This skill walks you through your first Pinecone experience using the tools available to you. In this quickstart,
you will learn how to do a simple form of semantic search over some example data.

Whenever this skill asks the user to choose between options, confirm a destructive step, or pick from a list, ask in plain prose, list the options, and wait for their answer before continuing.

## Prerequisites

Before starting either path, verify the API key works by calling `list-indexes` via the Pinecone MCP. If it succeeds, proceed. If it fails, ask the user to set their key:

- Add `PINECONE_API_KEY=your-key` to a `.env` file at your workspace root. The
  bundled MCP config reads it through Cursor's `envFile` field.
- For scripts, either `export PINECONE_API_KEY="your-key"` in your terminal or
  run them with `uv run --env-file .env scripts/...`.

Then retry `list-indexes` to confirm.

## Step 0: Choose Your Path

Ask the user which path they want:

- **Database** – Build a vector search index. Best for developers who want to store and search embeddings. Uses the Pinecone MCP + a Python upsert script.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add pinecone-io/pinecone-cursor-plugin/pinecone-quickstart@sha256:a7c6f6579baf822f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260811.3d6515e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_wmktpvuovoxbdahj.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_wmktpvuovoxbdahj)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 13, 2026 and Aug 11, 2026, about one every 90 days.

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git:20260811.3d6515e latest2026-08-11 3d6515e 9,371 BA view · diff
git:20260513.6f34a132026-05-13 6f34a13 9,165 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9371 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

pinecone-io/pinecone-cursor-plugin · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-09 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wmktpvuovoxbdahj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pinecone-io/pinecone-cursor-plugin/pinecone-quickstart
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a7c6f6579baf822fde5b264392ff797a17f243a6f1292a7c1d294d11416f5da9

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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