The Chroma MCP server, built by Chroma, provides embeddings, vector search, document storage, and full-text search with the open-source AI application database. It is community-built and best for Database.
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Embeddings, vector search, document storage, and full-text search with the open-source AI application database.
Trust verdict
How grades are computed →Grade B (79/100, solid) from 1 measured signal, based on repository evidence. Only one signal stands behind it, so treat the grade as provisional.
What was measured
- Repository maintenance55/100 · weight 20
The last push or release is between six and eighteen months old. — last push 2025-09-17, last release 2025-08-14 (v0.2.6).
- Source verification100/100 · weight 25
The repository URL was confirmed to resolve against the live GitHub API and is not archived.
- Provenance65/100 · weight 10
Community-built. That is not a mark against it — most of the ecosystem is community-built — but there is no vendor accountable for keeping it working.
- Listing ↔ repository match100/100 · weight 5
The listing name lines up with the linked repository chroma-core/chroma-mcp.
What could not be measured
These contributed nothing to the score — not a penalty, not a zero. They are why the confidence reads the way it does.
- Live MCP handshakeunknown
No remote endpoint to handshake — this server installs and runs locally over stdio, so there is nothing to probe from the outside.
- Measured uptimeunknown
No probe history recorded for this server yet.
- Tool-schema stabilityunknown
Drift is a difference between two successive checks, and this server has none recorded.
Installation
uvx chroma-mcpchroma-mcp confirmed live on PyPI — checked August 17, 2026.
Categories
Frequently Asked Questions
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Repo Health
Local/stdio install — runs on your machine, so there is no remote endpoint to verify live. Trust signal below is from the source repo.
- Last commit
- 1y ago
- Last release
- v0.2.6 · 1y ago
- Install
- pip
Quick Info
- Install Type
- pip
- Author
- Chroma
- Categories
- 3
- Integrations
- 5
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