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chroma-mcp

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides database capa

GitHub ↗registry ↗
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✅ Actively maintained, production-ready

What it does for you

Connects your AI to Chroma — store documents and run semantic search, a lightweight RAG memory backend.

Capabilities

  • Store and embed documents
  • Semantic retrieval

Once installed, try asking your AI

Say this directly in Claude / Cursor or any client with this server connected

  • Store these docs so I can semantically search them later

Before you connect

🔑 Needs an API key / tokenPython

Install / Connect

# No npm package — install from source.
# See the repo's README for the exact command:
# https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma-mcp

Follow the official README; env and args vary per server.

🛠️ Maintenance weight 30% · 19 pts

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Last commit308 days ago
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Commits in 90 days0
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Median issue response5 days
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Repo statusNormal

📊 Adoption weight 25% · 50 pts

GitHub stars576 (90d +0%)
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npm weekly downloadsNot npm-distributed
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Releases per month

✅ Usability weight 20% · 100 pts

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Official registryListed
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Runnable entryResolvable (npx/remote)
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AuditabilityOpen-source repo, auditable

❤️ Health & community weight 25% · 58 pts

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open issues27
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open PRs
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LicenseApache-2.0
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Contributors / forks6 / 116

Sources: GitHub API · npm registry · Official registry · updated 2026-07-23

90-day trend

⭐ stars +0%

Similar / alternative servers

How to choose among these

Database servers split into relational vs. vector; vector stores are all for RAG, differing by scale and hosting.

  • Relational DB (business data, SQL)Pick Supabase / Neon / MongoDB / ClickHouse — match your DB
  • RAG with semantic memoryPick a vector store: Pinecone (scaled) / Qdrant / Chroma (light) / Weaviate

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