Dockerfile

FROM python:3.10-slim

# HuggingFace Spaces requires a non-root user with uid 1000
RUN useradd -m -u 1000 user

WORKDIR /app

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        gcc \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

COPY requirements.txt .
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

COPY --chown=user:user . .

USER user
ENV HOME=/home/user \
    PATH=/home/user/.local/bin:$PATH

# Gensim caches the model in ~/gensim-data — persists within a container run
ENV GENSIM_DATA_DIR=/home/user/gensim-data

EXPOSE 7860

CMD ["uvicorn", "app:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "7860"]