Does Chroma MCP work with Cursor?

Result

Steps

1. install OK
2. connected Failed
3. tools visible Failed
4. agent task: roundtrip Failedwrite then read back from a local database/vector store (no cloud account)Why it failed: no successful call to this server's tools; answer missing ['TP-36F9EB']; no tool result containing ['TP-36F9EB']

From our own harness run, not the maker’s claims. How we test.

What happened in this run

Install config we used

{
 "mcpServers": {
  "chroma": {
   "command": "uvx",
   "args": [
    "chroma-mcp",
    "--client-type",
    "persistent",
    "--data-dir",
    "/workspace/timmy/harness/sandbox/chroma"
   ]
  }
 }
}

Connection check

chroma: Error: Connection failed

Raw details from our harness log for this run. Secrets redacted.

Set it up in Cursor

Copy-paste config for every app is on the Chroma MCP page. Not connecting? Cursor MCP troubleshooting.

Other apps we tested it in: Claude Code (failed).

All MCP servers tested in Cursor