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Chroma Foundation by ryan-brosas — Agent Skill

Name: Chroma Foundation
Author: ryan-brosas

Chroma Foundation

Use when porting Chroma embedded vector database internals — HNSW segment engine, layered brute-force batches, SQL metadata filter planner, SQLite WAL queue, and the Rust MaxScore/SPANN/HNSW-provider engine.

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Chroma: Vector Database Foundation

Foundation contract

This is a cold, source-specific foundation, not an operational procedure. It is historical, revision-pinned evidence rather than timeless guidance. Current project source, tests, requirements, and runtime behavior outrank this projection and decide what ships.

Provenance and revision

Source record: chroma; portable upstream identity, license, coverage caveats, and retrieval history are preserved in the index.
Recorded revision: main@93652ec0869489b803fe1682427fc02bd47bec14.
Full provenance, coverage caveats, boundaries, and preserved evidence: references/index.md.

Topic map

Representative topics: HNSW label plane; Layered write path; Batch accounting; Brute-force twin; Params validation; Filter planner; Metadata write path; WAL producer.
Scope and retrieval questions: references/index.md#use-this-for.
Complete capsule chooser: references/index.md#load-the-matching-source-dump.
Detailed grouped map: references/index.md#capsule-map.
Source limitations and portability boundaries: references/index.md#boundaries.

Retrieval

Open the index, choose one capsule matching the active question, and load only that capsule. Revalidate its cited source and revision before relying on it. Do not bulk-load the inventory, treat historical claims as current truth, or apply this foundation as a procedure.

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