Collection Forking

Factory AI uses Chroma Cloud to power semantic and full-text code search for its AI software development agents (Droids). Chroma enables semantic similarity search, regex/full-text search, and collection forking to incrementally index git diffs without full re-ingestion. Serverless scalability handles unpredictable parallel workloads across many concurrent Droid instances. Factory's Droids hold the #1 score on Terminal-Bench, resolving 58.8% of tasks.

Oct 7, 2025

Chroma Sync is a new Chroma Cloud feature that automatically handles chunking, embedding, and indexing of external data sources. The initial launch supports GitHub, using collection forking to process only diffs between commits rather than entire repositories. Enables version-aware retrieval at specific commits or branches, designed to support background agents and automated CI/CD workflows. More data sources to follow.

Oct 22, 2025

Chroma Sync, Chroma Cloud's serverless ingestion service, now supports Amazon S3, GitHub repositories, and web crawling as data sources. The service handles parsing, chunking, and embedding automatically with queue-based retries and rate-limit awareness. Amazon S3 supports PDFs, images, and code with optional auto-sync; GitHub uses collection forking for efficient incremental updates; web uses a JavaScript-capable crawler with configurable depth. Pricing starts at $0.04/GiB processed.

Mar 3, 2026

Chroma Cloud is a hosted, production-grade deployment of Chroma built from everything we learned shipping the single-node engine, re-architected into a distributed system for scale. The API remains unchanged, allowing migration from single-node to cloud without rewriting applications.

Aug 17, 2025