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title: "Chroma - Open-Source Embedding Database - Air Market"
description: "Sometimes the words you remember aren't the words in the document, so a normal search misses what you want. This is a database that lets you search by meaning instead. It also helps when you want an…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/chroma"
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Skill by [Nous Research](/@nousresearch)

# Chroma - Open-Source Embedding Database

Search your documents by meaning, not exact words

## What this does

Sometimes the words you remember aren't the words in the document, so a normal search misses what you want. This is a database that lets you search by meaning instead. It also helps when you want an AI to answer from your own material rather than only from what it already knows.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Store my documents so they can be searched by meaning
- Find passages related to a question

## Information

**Chroma - Open-Source Embedding Database at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Nous Research](/@nousresearch) |
| Category | [Data & Analytics](/category/data) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Languages | en |
| Version | 1.0.0 |
| Size | 9 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [NousResearch/hermes-agent](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/tree/a61183b56fdb45b9d2a0f2f6b8482e665ccf702f/optional-skills/mlops/chroma) |
| GitHub stars | 261,931 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Chroma - Open-Source Embedding Database and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Chroma - Open-Source Embedding Database's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | a61183b56fdb45b9d2a0f2f6b8482e665ccf702f |
| Content hash | ee420fd775310609c06b184836bf3538887b7ea992e62a31d68b7119b2a3fb25 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/blob/a61183b56fdb45b9d2a0f2f6b8482e665ccf702f/optional-skills/mlops/chroma/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Chroma - Open-Source Embedding Database](/security/chroma)

## About Chroma - Open-Source Embedding Database

Chroma is an open-source embedding database. It is meant for two jobs: semantic search, which finds things by meaning rather than by exact words, and RAG, where an AI looks up relevant material before it answers.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/integration.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Chroma - Open-Source Embedding Database safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Chroma - Open-Source Embedding Database and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit a61183b56fdb, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/chroma.

### How do I install Chroma - Open-Source Embedding Database?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/chroma on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/tree/a61183b56fdb45b9d2a0f2f6b8482e665ccf702f/optional-skills/mlops/chroma. Install from that link, not the branch.

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