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Configuring SeaGOAT

Introduction

Some features of SeaGOAT can be configured through config files. All configuration files are written in the YAML format.

There are two types of configuration files:

  • Global configuration files. Use seagoat-server server-info to find the location of this file on your system. Learn more.
  • Project configuration files. Located in a file called seagoat.yml in the root folder of your repository.

Both of these types of configuration files have the exact same format, and your project-wide configuration files are merged with the global configuration. Whenever both your local as well as global configuration files define a value, the local value takes precedence.

This is an example of a configuration file:

# .seagoat.yml

server:
  port: 31134  # A port number to run the server on

  # globs to ignore in addition to .gitignore
  ignorePatterns:
    - "**/locales/*" # Ignore all files inside 'locales' directories
    - "**/*.po"     # Ignore all gettext translation files

client:
  # Connect the CLI to a remove server
  host: https://example.com/seagoat-instance/

Available configuration options

Server

Server-related configuration resides under the server attribute in your config files.

The following values can be configured:

  • port: The port number the server will run on
  • ignorePatterns: A list of glob patterns to ignore. Keep in mind that all files ignored by .gitignore are already ignored. You probably should not need to configure this value. It is only useful if there are some files that you wish to keep in git, but you wish to hide from SeaGOAT. Learn more about globs
  • chroma: Configurations for the ChromaDB based features. Has the following attributes:
  • embeddingFunction:
    • name: Name of the embedding function to use. See ChromaDB's docs for more
    • arguments: Arguments to pass to the embedding function.

    • If you wanted to use the ONNXMiniLM_L6_V2 embedding model with TensorRT

      server:
...
chroma:
  embedding_function:
    name: "ONNXMiniLM_L6_V2"
    arguments:
      preferred_providers: ["TensorrtExecutionProvider"]

Client

Configuration for the CLI (gt command) resides under the client attribute.

The following values can be configured:

  • host: The URL of the SeaGOAT instance to connect to. This is only needed when you are hosting your SeaGOAT server on a remote computer. It is recommended to set this value in your project configuration file, so that you are still able to use the local server for different projects.