ChromaDB Remote MCP Server

io.github.meloncafe/chromadb-remote-mcp

4/5 checks passed
Local or hosted
1 secret
★ 12 GitHub stars
Updated 2025-10-31
Health score 59

About ChromaDB Remote MCP Server

ChromaDB Remote MCP Server is an MCP server published by the GitHub account meloncafe. Remote ChromaDB vector database MCP server with streamable HTTP transport

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the Docker (OCI) package devsaurus/chromadb-remote-mcp:latest, with no version pinned, or you can connect to the hosted version instead.

It asks for one secret: MCP_AUTH_TOKEN. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

It also needs CHROMADB_MCP_URL set before it starts.

Version 1.0.2 was published on 31 October 2025, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on registry metadata: 4 pass, 1 warn, 0 fail, 4 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`CHROMADB_MCP_URL`	Yes	No	URL of your deployed ChromaDB Remote MCP server
`MCP_AUTH_TOKEN`	No	Yes	Authentication token for the MCP server (if enabled)

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/meloncafe/chromadb-remote-mcp
Version pinned	Warn	Not pinned: devsaurus/chromadb-remote-mcp:latest
Remote uses HTTPS	Pass	All remote endpoints use https://
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: MCP_AUTH_TOKEN
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account meloncafe
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Code red flags	Info	oci packages are not read yet
Tool descriptions read	Info	Did not answer the MCP handshake (HTTP 405)

Popularity & health: 59 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity10 / 40

12 GitHub stars, no download count, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-29, last release 2026-10-25, 65 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 1 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks16 / 20

1 warning, each costing a fifth.

5 forks, 94 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

Look further: search Reddit, search Hacker News, read its GitHub issues. These are not reviews we checked.

Facts

Registry name	`io.github.meloncafe/chromadb-remote-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account meloncafe
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account meloncafe. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local package and a hosted remote
Packages	oci `devsaurus/chromadb-remote-mcp:latest` no version given (streamable-http)
Remote endpoints	streamable-http https://meloncafe.github.io/chromadb-remote-mcp/mcp
Version	1.0.2
Published	2025-10-31
Last updated	2025-10-31
Source repository	https://github.com/meloncafe/chromadb-remote-mcp
Website	None linked
Category	Databases & data (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Docker image

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chromadb-remote-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "CHROMADB_MCP_URL",
        "devsaurus/chromadb-remote-mcp:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CHROMADB_MCP_URL": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code · hosted

claude mcp add --transport http chromadb-remote-mcp https://meloncafe.github.io/chromadb-remote-mcp/mcp

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We could not read its code or its tool descriptions, which is where tool poisoning hides. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-meloncafe-chromadb-remote-mcp.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.