Trigger an on-demand self-tuning optimize
Tunes the manifest from real query traffic, then chains a forced re-curate. Every field of the required body is optional, so {} is valid — and a no-op without candidate_queries. The context must be curated, and only one optimize runs at a time.
POST /contexts/{slug}/optimize
curl --request POST \
--url https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/optimize \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'X-Pinecone-Api-Version: <x-pinecone-api-version>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"eval_pass_rate_threshold": 123,
"retrieval_p90_latency_ms": 123,
"optimize_timeout_seconds": 123,
"max_iterations": 123,
"max_tool_turns": 123,
"models": [
"<string>"
],
"candidate_queries": [
{
"ask": "<string>",
"answer": "<string>",
"fallback_to_chunks": true,
"latency_ms": 123
}
],
"pinecone_api_key": "<string>"
}'import requests
url = "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/optimize"
payload = {
"eval_pass_rate_threshold": 123,
"retrieval_p90_latency_ms": 123,
"optimize_timeout_seconds": 123,
"max_iterations": 123,
"max_tool_turns": 123,
"models": [
"<string>"
],
"candidate_queries": [
{
"ask": "<string>",
"answer": "<string>",
"fallback_to_chunks": True,
"latency_ms": 123
}
],
"pinecone_api_key": "<string>"
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"X-Pinecone-Api-Version": "<x-pinecone-api-version>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: "POST", headers: {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>", "X-Pinecone-Api-Version": "<x-pinecone-api-version>", "Content-Type": "application/json"}, body: JSON.stringify({
"eval_pass_rate_threshold": 123,
"retrieval_p90_latency_ms": 123,
"optimize_timeout_seconds": 123,
"max_iterations": 123,
"max_tool_turns": 123,
"models": [
"<string>"
],
"candidate_queries": [
{
"ask": "<string>",
"answer": "<string>",
"fallback_to_chunks": true,
"latency_ms": 123
}
],
"pinecone_api_key": "<string>"
})};
fetch("https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/optimize", options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/optimize",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\"eval_pass_rate_threshold\":123,\"retrieval_p90_latency_ms\":123,\"optimize_timeout_seconds\":123,\"max_iterations\":123,\"max_tool_turns\":123,\"models\":[\"<string>\"],\"candidate_queries\":[{\"ask\":\"<string>\",\"answer\":\"<string>\",\"fallback_to_chunks\":true,\"latency_ms\":123}],\"pinecone_api_key\":\"<string>\"}",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"X-Pinecone-Api-Version: <x-pinecone-api-version>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/optimize"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\"eval_pass_rate_threshold\":123,\"retrieval_p90_latency_ms\":123,\"optimize_timeout_seconds\":123,\"max_iterations\":123,\"max_tool_turns\":123,\"models\":[\"<string>\"],\"candidate_queries\":[{\"ask\":\"<string>\",\"answer\":\"<string>\",\"fallback_to_chunks\":true,\"latency_ms\":123}],\"pinecone_api_key\":\"<string>\"}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("X-Pinecone-Api-Version", "<x-pinecone-api-version>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/optimize")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("X-Pinecone-Api-Version", "<x-pinecone-api-version>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\"eval_pass_rate_threshold\":123,\"retrieval_p90_latency_ms\":123,\"optimize_timeout_seconds\":123,\"max_iterations\":123,\"max_tool_turns\":123,\"models\":[\"<string>\"],\"candidate_queries\":[{\"ask\":\"<string>\",\"answer\":\"<string>\",\"fallback_to_chunks\":true,\"latency_ms\":123}],\"pinecone_api_key\":\"<string>\"}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug}/optimize")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["X-Pinecone-Api-Version"] = '<x-pinecone-api-version>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\"eval_pass_rate_threshold\":123,\"retrieval_p90_latency_ms\":123,\"optimize_timeout_seconds\":123,\"max_iterations\":123,\"max_tool_turns\":123,\"models\":[\"<string>\"],\"candidate_queries\":[{\"ask\":\"<string>\",\"answer\":\"<string>\",\"fallback_to_chunks\":true,\"latency_ms\":123}],\"pinecone_api_key\":\"<string>\"}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"task_id": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
"exploring": true,
"profiling": true,
"importing": true
}{
"message": "<string>",
"code": "<string>"
}Authorizations
Section titled “Authorizations”AuthorizationstringrequiredSession token from POST /auth/login, sent as Authorization: Bearer <token>.
Headers
Section titled “Headers”X-Pinecone-Api-Version?stringDate-based contract version, echoed back on the same header. Omit for the default (2026-07); send unstable for the in-development surface. An unrecognized value is rejected with 400 unsupported_api_version.
Path Parameters
Section titled “Path Parameters”slugstringrequiredContext slug or UUID.
eval_pass_rate_threshold?numberPass rate a candidate manifest must clear to count as ready.
retrieval_p90_latency_ms?integerThe p90 latency bar a candidate must stay under.
optimize_timeout_seconds?integerDefault 7200
max_iterations?integerDefault 20
max_tool_turns?integerDefault 200
models?string[]Model-id overrides passed to the optimize runtime
candidate_queries?object[]Recent query records to tune toward (absent = no-op)
Show child attributes
ask?stringThe question to tune retrieval against.
answer?stringUsed as eval ground truth
fallback_to_chunks?booleanWhether answering this query had to drill from artifacts down to chunks.
latency_ms?numberLatency the query showed in real traffic, as a tuning baseline.
pinecone_api_key?stringTask-token override; normally not needed
Response
Section titled “Response”200 — Optimize enqueued (state: optimizing)
What every context-workflow trigger returns. The work is asynchronous: poll GET /tasks/{task_id}. The per-workflow booleans duplicate state and appear only where a workflow's contract names one.
task_idstringrequiredThe enqueued task. Poll it at GET /tasks/id.
statestringrequiredThe forward-looking status the trigger put the context into.
exploring?booleanDuplicates state; present only for explore
profiling?booleanDuplicates state; present only for profile
importing?booleanDuplicates state; present only for the import/curate triggers