FROM python:3.11-slim WORKDIR /app RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ build-essential \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* COPY requirements.txt . RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt # Cache the cross-encoder model at build time so there is no download on cold start ENV SENTENCE_TRANSFORMERS_HOME=/app/.st_cache RUN python -c "from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder; CrossEncoder('cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2')" COPY . . # HF Spaces requires a non-root user (uid 1000) RUN adduser --disabled-password --gecos '' --uid 1000 user \ && chown -R user:user /app USER user # HF Spaces Docker containers must listen on port 7860 EXPOSE 7860 CMD ["gunicorn", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:7860", "--workers", "1", "--timeout", "120", "--preload", "wsgi:app"]