mcp-registry/chroma-mcp

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    [server:online]
    [protocol:ready]

chroma-mcp

by chroma-core

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides Chroma-powered vector & text search capabilities to LLM applications.

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Installation

1. Prerequisites
• Python 3.9 or newer
• (Optional) Docker 24+
2. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma-mcp.git cd chroma-mcp
3. (Recommended) create a virtual-env
python -m venv .venv source .venv/bin/activate # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
4. Install server dependencies
pip install -U pip wheel pip install -e .[server] # extras name used in Chroma projects # OR pull directly from PyPI if/when published # pip install chroma-mcp
5. Configure the database backend (DuckDB by default)
# Environment variables export CHROMA_DB_IMPL="duckdb+parquet" # or "postgres" export CHROMA_SERVER_PORT=8000 # For Postgres # export CHROMA_DB_HOST=localhost # export CHROMA_DB_PORT=5432 # export CHROMA_DB_USER=postgres # export CHROMA_DB_PASSWORD=yourpass
6. Run the server
python -m chroma_mcp.server # Starts FastAPI server on the configured port Docker quick-start docker build -t chroma-mcp . docker run -e CHROMA_DB_IMPL=duckdb+parquet -p 8000:8000 chroma-mcp The API will be available at http://localhost:8000 and Swagger docs at http://localhost:8000/docs.

Documentation

License: Apache License 2.0
Updated 7/30/2025

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