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Come join our VP of Engineering Jörg Schad , Ph.D. in San Francisco next week to talk about BYOC, along with our friends at Tensor9, Rootly, and Twingate! Details below.

API design has always had one reader in mind: a human developer with docs open in one tab and Stack Overflow in the other. Now there's a second reader that reads differently. Agents don't file support tickets, and they can't squint at "400: invalid request." Every doc detour is billed in turns and tokens. Every verbose response displaces the reasoning they need to finish the job. With this in mind, we wrote down the tenets we're now holding our own API to: 1. Errors are guidance 2. Budget the reader's context 3. Self-description beats documentation 4. Safe at machine tempo 5. Access without a human in the loop 6. The agent surface is a product, not a mirror Every one of these would be familiar to an API designer from a decade ago: actionable errors, idempotency, least privilege. But human developers have been grace-filled and forgiving of API designs that don't follow these tenets. Good API design is really a net benefit for your customers' agents that makes them more cost efficient and less churn-inducing and ultimately lets them get the job done right. Full post: https://lnkd.in/d4g7CRW8

Most semantic search queries leave something unstated. The user knows what they mean. The system doesn't. Pinecone's text match filters scope a vector search to a lexical condition (a machine number, a jurisdiction, a country) before the search runs, so an agent gets the right candidate pool without a dataset pre-labeled for every filter it might eventually need. How it works, with a real example: https://lnkd.in/gZSrqApf

Knowledge is rather abstract and philosophical. So what does it mean from an agentic context? How does providing the right knowledge at the right time to an agent increase its accuracy, task completion, and cost efficiency far above and beyond a frontier model alone? Watch the video to see it in action, and if you’d like to learn more, check out the blog post: https://lnkd.in/gUbrsXQJ

Building Agent Skills and testing them is hard, but it doesn't have to be. Listen to Arjun Patel , DevRel at Pinecone, demo Cultivar, an open source tool to help benchmark and evaluate agent skills in sandboxes. Thanks to Voxel51 for hosting us! https://lnkd.in/daG96RTB

One dataset. Three totally different questions. Zero retrieval code. Arjun Patel , senior DevRel at Pinecone, gave Pinecone Nexus a pile of recipes and asked it to organize itself to: - match his cravings to recipes - align his shopping list to recipes to make - combine the above two to meal plan a whole week Check out the results below: 🎥👇 https://lnkd.in/d4QT8XT4

Most enterprises aren't struggling to scale AI because of the models. They're struggling to get those models to the right knowledge. That's why we built Pinecone Nexus. Now generally available, Nexus compiles knowledge scattered across your business into a governed layer that agents can query directly. On Sierra's τ-Knowledge benchmark, GPT-5.2 with Nexus achieved 12% higher accuracy at 80% lower cost per task, while GPT-5.5 maintained its accuracy at 77% lower cost. Read more: https://lnkd.in/daBpuzEX

Pinecone Nexus is now generally available. It compiles knowledge scattered across the business into a governed layer agents query directly. On Sierra's τ-Knowledge benchmark: GPT-5.2 with Nexus gained 12% more accuracy at 80% lower cost per task. GPT-5.5 held its accuracy at 77% lower cost. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/ddmiyWt3

Next Tuesday, August 11, we're hosting the August LA Agentic AI Meetup, 5 to 7pm at Gulp in Playa Vista. May drew 70 people. July brought 80. Let's break 100 in August. Come hang out with builders, engineers, founders, and the AI-curious for networking, a live demo, drinks, and real conversations about what people are building. RSVP: https://luma.com/avw5a3y9

We're excited to celebrate our team's growth by welcoming Nico Alba, Pinecone's new Staff Technical Writer. Nico comes to Pinecone with 10 years in the docs industry, and we're thrilled to have him on the team. Are you interested in joining our talented team? Check out our opportunities today: https://lnkd.in/d4R_7sN