FROM python:3.11-slim WORKDIR /app RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* COPY requirements.txt . RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt # Bake the embedding model at build time so a cold Space makes zero # network calls for inference (fastembed caches under HF_HOME). ENV HF_HOME=/app/models RUN python3 -c "from fastembed import TextEmbedding; list(TextEmbedding('sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2').embed(['warm']))" \ && echo "[BUILD] embedding model baked" COPY app/ ./app/ EXPOSE 7860 CMD ["uvicorn", "app.main:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "7860"]