Chroma MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides database capabilities for Chroma

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: CHROMA_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configCHROMA_CLIENT_TYPE— export ="http" # or "cloud", "persistent", "ephemeral"

configCHROMA_DATA_DIR— export ="/full/path/to/your/data/directory"

configCHROMA_HOST— export ="your-host"

configCHROMA_PORT— export ="your-port"

configCHROMA_CUSTOM_AUTH_CREDENTIALS— export ="your-custom-auth-credentials"

configCHROMA_TENANT— export ="your-tenant-id"

configCHROMA_DATABASE— export ="your-database-name"

🔐 secretCHROMA_API_KEY— export ="your-api-key"

configCHROMA_SSL— export ="true"

configCHROMA_DOTENV_PATH— export ="/path/to/your/.env"

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commit: 98ff67589bdcc31b730a5415ff9529433f949077

code hash: 121a3a4d911c038e1d38362f679abe0ef6a92417ebb769f030993262900607bd

verified: 6/27/2026, 8:57:25 AM

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