chroma AGENTS.md

Codebase instructions for Chroma, a software project for storing and searching data used by AI applications. They point agents to the project's conventions, including how commit messages should be written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when asking an agent to change Chroma code, prepare commits, or follow its development conventions.
Why use it?
They provide project-specific rules so an agent can work consistently with the existing code and contribution process.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/chroma-core/chroma/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 34 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 34 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00034 $0.00034
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00017
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00007
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00003

Measured 2d ago against content hash bf57b0829caa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chroma AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 4 lines

What it actually says

Chroma Codebase Guidelines for AI Agents

See CLAUDE.md for codebase conventions (commit message format, etc.).

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 4 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A bf57b0829caa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chroma AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chroma-core/chroma (29,202 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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