embcli-chroma

chroma plugin for embcli, a command-line interface for embeddings.

Reference

• Chroma

Installation

pip install embcli-chroma

Quick Start

Use Chroma as a Vector Database

# show general usage of emb command.
emb --help

# list all available vector stores.
emb vector-stores
ChromaVectorStore
    Vendor: chroma

# index example documents to a Chroma collection. Default chroma db path is `./chroma`.
emb ingest-sample -m sbert -c catcafe --corpus cat-names-en --vector-store chroma

# or, you can give the path to your db path.
emb ingest-sample -m sbert -c catcafe --corpus cat-names-en --vector-store chroma --persist-path /path/to/chroma

# search indexed documents in a Chroma collection.
emb search -m sbert -c catcafe -q "Who's the naughtiest one?" --vector-store chroma

# or, you can give the path to your db path.
emb search -m sbert -c catcafe -q "Who's the naughtiest one?" --vector-store chroma --persist-path /path/to/chroma

Development

See the main README for general development instructions.

Run Tests

uv run --package embcli-chroma pytest packages/embcli-chroma/tests

Run Linter and Formatter

uv run ruff check --fix packages/embcli-chroma
uv run ruff format packages/embcli-chroma

Run Type Checker

uv run --package embcli-chroma pyright packages/embcli-chroma

Build

uv build --package embcli-chroma

License

Apache License 2.0