Fix Uvicorn crash: Keep Transformers offline but Hub online

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@@ -32,9 +32,13 @@ EXPOSE 7860 8000
 # Set environment to use Hugging Face
 ENV LLM_PROVIDER=huggingface
 
-# Explicitly disable offline mode so API calls to Hugging Face Inference stay open
-ENV TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=0
+# Fix: TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE MUST be 1 otherwise the embedder tries to write to the cache dir (which is owned by root)
+# and throws a PermissionError, crashing Uvicorn at startup.
+ENV TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1
+
+# Fix: HF_HUB_OFFLINE MUST be 0 otherwise the Inference APIs (for generating lessons) are blocked from making network requests.
 ENV HF_HUB_OFFLINE=0
+
 # Enable Supabase for persistent storage
 ENV USE_SUPABASE=true
 
@@ -42,6 +46,10 @@ ENV USE_SUPABASE=true
 RUN echo '#!/bin/bash\n\
     set -e\n\
     \n\
+    # OVERRIDE ANY SPACE SETTINGS TO ENSURE INFERENCE API WORKS\n\
+    export HF_HUB_OFFLINE=0\n\
+    export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1\n\
+    \n\
     echo "===== Application Startup at $(date) =====" \n\
     echo "=== FocusFlow Startup ===" \n\
     \n\