Retrieve context snippets
Retrieve context snippets
This page shows you how to retrieve context snippets.
To try this in your browser, use the Pinecone Assistant - Context colab notebook.
Retrieve context snippets from an assistant
You can retrieve context snippets from an assistant, as in the following example:
The example above returns a JSON object like the following:
JSON
Control the snippets retrieved
This is available in API versions 2025-04
and later.
You can limit token usage by tuning top_k * snippet_size
:
snippet_size
: Controls the max size of a snippet (default is 2048 tokens). Note that snippet size can vary and, in rare cases, may be bigger than the setsnippet_size
. Snippet size controls the amount of context given for each chunk of text.top_k
: Controls the max number of context snippets retrieved (default is 16).top_k
controls the diversity of information received in the returned snippets.
While additional tokens will be used for other parameters, adjusting the top_k
and snippet_size
can help manage token consumption.
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