diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 826fa7e54..c928174cb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,5 +8,10 @@ __pycache__
 # Ignore everything in the generated directory
 /generated/*
 
+# Ignore the locally persisted chromadb
+.chroma_db/
+**/chroma-embeddings.parquet
+
 # Don't ignore .gitkeep files in the generated directory
 !/generated/.gitkeep
+
diff --git a/constants.py b/constants.py
index b7ccc11b4..9eaa2b8f8 100644
--- a/constants.py
+++ b/constants.py
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
+import os
+
+
 EXTENSION_TO_SKIP = [".png",".jpg",".jpeg",".gif",".bmp",".svg",".ico",".tif",".tiff"]
 DEFAULT_DIR = "generated"
+ROOT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+DEFAULT_DIR_FULL_PATH = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, DEFAULT_DIR)
 DEFAULT_MODEL = "gpt-3.5-turbo" # we recommend 'gpt-4' if you have it # gpt3.5 is going to be worse at generating code so we strongly recommend gpt4. i know most people dont have access, we are working on a hosted version 
 DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS = 2000 # i wonder how to tweak this properly. we dont want it to be max length as it encourages verbosity of code. but too short and code also truncates suddenly.
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diff --git a/src/__init__.py b/src/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/src/embeddings.py b/src/embeddings.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..440774ac1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/embeddings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+import os
+
+from termcolor import colored
+import chromadb
+
+from constants import ROOT_DIR
+from src.traversal import traverse_dir
+
+
+class Embeddings():
+    
+    EXCLUDE_PATTERNS = ["*.png","*.jpg","*.jpeg","*.gif","*.bmp","*.svg","*.ico","*.tif","*.tiff"]
+    
+    def __init__(self, debug=False):
+        self.debug = debug
+        self.GENERATED_FILES_COLLECTION_NAME = "generated_files"
+
+        DB_DIR = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, ".chroma_db")
+        # Create the embedding database directory if it doesn't exist
+        if not os.path.exists(DB_DIR):
+            os.makedirs(DB_DIR)
+
+        self.client = chromadb.Client(
+          chromadb.config.Settings(
+            chroma_db_impl="duckdb+parquet",
+            persist_directory=DB_DIR,
+          )
+        )
+
+        self.ensure_generated_files_collection_exists()
+
+    def ensure_generated_files_collection_exists(self):
+        # Create the generated files collection if it doesn't exist
+        self.generated_files_collection = self.client.get_or_create_collection(self.GENERATED_FILES_COLLECTION_NAME)
+
+
+    def persist_generated_file_contents(self, reset=False):
+        if reset:
+            self.generated_files_collection.reset()
+        self.ensure_generated_files_collection_exists()
+
+        # Iterate over all files in the generated directory
+        file_paths_list = []
+        file_contents_list = []
+        metadatas_list = []
+        for file_path in traverse_dir("generated", exclude_patterns=self.EXCLUDE_PATTERNS):
+            file_paths_list.append(file_path)
+            if self.debug:
+                print("embedding: " + colored(file_path, 'green'))
+            # Read the file
+            with open(file_path, "r") as file:
+                file_contents_list.append(file.read())
+                # Get the filename
+                filename = os.path.basename(file_path)
+                # Get the extension
+                extension = filename.split(".")[-1]
+                metadatas_list.append({
+                    "filename": filename,
+                    "extension": extension,
+                })
+
+        # Upsert the file into the database
+        self.generated_files_collection.upsert(
+            documents=file_contents_list,
+            metadatas=metadatas_list,
+            ids=file_paths_list,
+        )
+        if self.debug:
+            print(colored("persisted embeddings for %s files." % len(file_paths_list), 'yellow'))
+        
+        
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diff --git a/src/traversal.py b/src/traversal.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..67dfd9e82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/traversal.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import os
+import fnmatch
+
+def traverse_dir(root_dir, include_patterns=None, exclude_patterns=None):
+    """
+    # Example usage:
+      root_dir = '/path/to/directory'
+      include_patterns = ['*.txt', '*.py']  # Include files matching these patterns
+      exclude_patterns = ['exclude_dir1/*', 'exclude_dir2/*']  # Exclude directories matching these patterns
+
+      for file_path in traverse_dir(root_dir, include_patterns=include_patterns, exclude_patterns=exclude_patterns):
+          print(file_path)
+    """
+    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(root_dir):
+        if exclude_patterns and any(fnmatch.fnmatch(root, pattern) for pattern in exclude_patterns):
+            continue
+        for file in files:
+            file_path = os.path.join(root, file)
+            if include_patterns and not any(fnmatch.fnmatch(file_path, pattern) for pattern in include_patterns):
+                continue
+            yield file_path
+
+