> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Store Short Term • AI Agent SDK

> store_short_term: Store in ChromaDB (short-term and long-term treated the same).

# store\_short\_term

Method

> This is a method of the [**ChromaMemoryAdapter**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/classes/ChromaMemoryAdapter.md) class in the [**factories**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/modules/factories.md) module.

Store in ChromaDB (short-term and long-term treated the same).

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def store_short_term(text: str, metadata: Optional[Dict[str, Any]]) -> str
```

## Parameters

**text** `str` *required*

No description available.

**metadata** `Optional`

No description available.

### Returns

**Returns** `str`

The result of the operation.

## Uses

* `store_long_term`

## Used By

* [`Agent.store_memory`](../functions/Agent-store_memory)
* [`AgentTeam.save_session_state`](../functions/AgentTeam-save_session_state)
* [`Memory.store_short_term`](../functions/Memory-store_short_term)
* [`Memory.finalize_task_output`](../functions/Memory-finalize_task_output)
* [`Memory.store_quality`](../functions/Memory-store_quality)

## Source

> [card] [View on GitHub](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/memory/adapters/factories.py#L300)
>
> `praisonaiagents/memory/adapters/factories.py` at line 300


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