diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f497134..a2898f0 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -6,21 +6,13 @@ RUN npm ci
 COPY web/ ./
 RUN npm run build
 
-# Stage 2: Runtime (debian for glibc — torch/sentence-transformers need manylinux wheels)
-FROM debian:bookworm-slim
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ca-certificates curl && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-RUN curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
-ENV PATH="/root/.local/bin:$PATH"
-RUN uv venv --python 3.12 /app/venv && uv pip install --python /app/venv/bin/python sentence-transformers
-RUN /app/venv/bin/python -c "from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; SentenceTransformer('all-MiniLM-L6-v2')"
-# Pre-warm uv cache with common packages (shared across all project venvs)
-RUN uv pip install --python /app/venv/bin/python httpx fastapi uvicorn requests flask pydantic numpy pandas matplotlib pillow jinja2 pyyaml python-dotenv beautifulsoup4 lxml aiohttp aiofiles pytest rich click typer sqlalchemy
-RUN mkdir -p /app/data/workspaces
+# Stage 2: Runtime — server is just a static binary + frontend assets
+FROM alpine:3.20
+RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates
+RUN mkdir -p /app/data
 WORKDIR /app
 COPY target/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/release/tori .
 COPY --from=frontend /app/web/dist ./web/dist/
-COPY scripts/embed.py ./scripts/
-COPY app-templates/ ./templates/
 COPY config.yaml .
 
 EXPOSE 3000