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Chroma (local)

On-disk vector index for POST /search over docs and prompts.

Source: documentation/tools/integrations/chroma-local.md

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Chroma (local vector index)

Role in Ship: powers POST /search in the bundled FastAPI service — embeddings over documentation/, prompts/, and README.md, persisted under backend/.chroma/.

Operator notes

Requires OPENAI_API_KEY on the server for embedding generation; index rebuilds when content fingerprints change (or when FORCE_REINDEX=true).
Not a multi-tenant hosted vector DB — local-first for methodology search on a laptop or single VM.

Read next

Backend API — /search, /fetch, /feedback, /patterns (from the Ship repo use npm run ship -- docs … and npm run ship -- patterns …).
Ship CLI: ship docs search … from the repo root (see root package.json script ship).