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 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed a corrupt cached embedding model (truncated `model_optimized.onnx`, `Protobuf parsing failed` on load) permanently disabling local embeddings: init now quarantines the broken cache file (rename to `*.corrupt-<ts>`, only when the path resolves inside the fastembed cache directory) and retries once so the model re-downloads.
+
 ## [17.0.1] - 2026-07-16
 
 ### Fixed