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Chroma in one click.

Chroma is an embedding vector store for llm applications you can run on your own machine. Launch it in Even Stacks in one click, serve it over trusted HTTPS, and let your AI agents operate it.

What is Chroma?

Open-source embedding database for AI applications, storing and querying vector embeddings with metadata filtering and client SDKs for Python and JavaScript.

CategoryDatabase
Default port8562
Container imagechromadb/chroma:0.5.5
Official sitewww.trychroma.com

Run Chroma in Even

Even Stacks launches Chroma as a managed container on your own machine. No compose files, no manual setup.

  1. Open the Even Stacks panel in Even. The container engine starts on demand.
  2. Find Chroma in the one-click services and click Launch.
  3. Even pulls the image, starts it on port 8562, and serves it over trusted HTTPS at https://chroma.localhost.

Drive Chroma with your AI agents

Even ships an MCP, so any agent you run inside Even (Claude Code, Codex, and more) can operate Chroma directly, at both the UI level and the container level.

Through the Even MCP an agent can create tables, seed test data, run a migration, or inspect a schema, then tail the logs to confirm it worked. It runs commands inside the container, reads its logs, and for web apps opens and clicks through the interface in Even's own browser pane. Ask once, for example "set up Chroma and get it ready", and the agent handles it end to end.

How agents reach it: Use the REST API on port 8000: POST `/api/v1/collections` to create a collection, POST `/api/v1/collections/{name}/add` to insert embeddings, POST `/api/v1/collections/{name}/query` to search. Data (SQLite plus parquet) is stored in `/chroma/chroma`.

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