Getting Started

1. Make sure you're running at least Node version 18. You can run node -v to check your current Node version.

2. Install Docker Desktop for your platform.

3. Clone the repo or download the ZIP

git clone [github https url]

4. Install packages

npm i

5. Set up your .env file

• Copy .env.example into .env
• Your .env file should look like this:

OPENAI_API_KEY=
COLLECTION_NAME=

• Visit Openai to retrieve API keys and insert into your .env file.
• Choose a collection name where you'd like to store your embeddings in Chroma. This collection will later be used for queries and retrieval.

6. In a new terminal window, run Chroma in the Docker container:

docker run -p 8000:8000 ghcr.io/chroma-core/chroma:0.3.22

7. Inside docs folder is the document we want to 'ingest`.

8. Run the script npm run ingest to 'ingest' and embed your doc.

9. Run the app npm run dev to launch the local dev environment, and then type a question in the chat interface.

Sample Questions

• What did the president say about Justice Breyer?
• Was that nice?