diff --git a/adapter-pinecone/pom.xml b/adapter-pinecone/pom.xml
index e4bce6b0d..26e5b17b5 100644
--- a/adapter-pinecone/pom.xml
+++ b/adapter-pinecone/pom.xml
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
     <!--
-      ~ Copyright (c) 2022-2023 nosqlbench
-      ~
-      ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-      ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-      ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
-      ~
-      ~     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-      ~
-      ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-      ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-      ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-      ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-      ~ limitations under the License.
-      -->
+  ~ Copyright (c) 2022-2023 nosqlbench
+  ~
+  ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
 
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
@@ -53,12 +53,6 @@
         <artifactId>pinecone-client</artifactId>
         <version>0.2.3</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-        <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-        <artifactId>adapters-api</artifactId>
-        <version>5.17.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
 </dependencies>
 
 <build>
diff --git a/adapter-pinecone/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/pinecone/opdispensers/PineconeOpDispenser.java b/adapter-pinecone/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/pinecone/opdispensers/PineconeOpDispenser.java
index 0f0b52c5e..4b2facc7a 100644
--- a/adapter-pinecone/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/pinecone/opdispensers/PineconeOpDispenser.java
+++ b/adapter-pinecone/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/pinecone/opdispensers/PineconeOpDispenser.java
@@ -1,13 +1,29 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2023 nosqlbench
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
 package io.nosqlbench.adapter.pinecone.opdispensers;
 
+import io.nosqlbench.adapter.pinecone.PineconeDriverAdapter;
 import io.nosqlbench.adapter.pinecone.PineconeSpace;
 import io.nosqlbench.adapter.pinecone.ops.PineconeOp;
 import io.nosqlbench.engine.api.activityimpl.BaseOpDispenser;
-import io.nosqlbench.engine.api.activityimpl.uniform.DriverAdapter;
 import io.nosqlbench.engine.api.templating.ParsedOp;
 
 public class PineconeOpDispenser extends BaseOpDispenser<PineconeOp, PineconeSpace> {
-    protected PineconeOpDispenser(DriverAdapter<PineconeOp, PineconeSpace> adapter, ParsedOp op) {
+    protected PineconeOpDispenser(PineconeDriverAdapter adapter, ParsedOp op) {
         super(adapter, op);
     }
 
diff --git a/adapter-pinecone/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/pinecone/ops/PineconeOpTypes.java b/adapter-pinecone/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/pinecone/ops/PineconeOpTypes.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d5cdd1a8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/adapter-pinecone/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/pinecone/ops/PineconeOpTypes.java
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2023 nosqlbench
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package io.nosqlbench.adapter.pinecone.ops;
+
+public enum PineconeOpTypes {
+    query,
+    update
+}
diff --git a/adapter-pinecone/src/main/resources/adapter-pinecone.md b/adapter-pinecone/src/main/resources/adapter-pinecone.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000
diff --git a/adapter-pinecone/src/main/resources/docs/pinecone.md b/adapter-pinecone/src/main/resources/docs/pinecone.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aba2a940d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/adapter-pinecone/src/main/resources/docs/pinecone.md
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# pinecone driver
+
+```yaml
+ops:
+
+# A pinecone query op
+ query-example:
+  query: myindex
+  ... additional fields ...
+
+# A delete op
+ delete-example:
+  delete: indexfoo
+  ... additional fields ...
+
+# A describe index stats op
+ describe-index-stats-example:
+  describe-index-stats: indexbar
+
+# A pinecone fetch op
+
+# A pinecone update op
+
+# A pinecone upsert op
+
+```
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 732700505..6739919a7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@
         <module>adapter-s4j</module>
         <module>adapter-kafka</module>
         <module>adapter-jdbc</module>
+        <module>adapter-pinecone</module>
 
         <!-- VIRTDATA MODULES -->
         <module>virtdata-api</module>