diff --git a/packages/mnemopi/src/core/embeddings.ts b/packages/mnemopi/src/core/embeddings.ts
index 241122364..21851d2a1 100644
--- a/packages/mnemopi/src/core/embeddings.ts
+++ b/packages/mnemopi/src/core/embeddings.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import {
 } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-utils";
 import type { EmbeddingModel } from "fastembed";
 import { LRUCache } from "lru-cache/raw";
-import { ensureFastembedTokenizerSidecars } from "./fastembed-model-cache";
+import { ensureFastembedModelSidecars } from "./fastembed-model-cache";
 import { loadFastembed } from "./fastembed-runtime";
 import {
 	type EmbeddingOutput,
@@ -68,11 +68,13 @@ async function defaultLocalModelInitializer(options: LocalModelInitOptions): Pro
 	} catch (error) {
 		const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : "";
 		if (
-			!/(?:Tokenizer file not found at .*tokenizer|Tokens map file not found at .*special_tokens_map)/u.test(message)
+			!/(?:Config file not found at .*config|Tokenizer file not found at .*tokenizer|Tokens map file not found at .*special_tokens_map)/u.test(
+				message,
+			)
 		) {
 			throw error;
 		}
-		if (!(await ensureFastembedTokenizerSidecars(options.model, options.cacheDir))) throw error;
+		if (!(await ensureFastembedModelSidecars(options.model, options.cacheDir))) throw error;
 		return FlagEmbedding.init(options);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/packages/mnemopi/src/core/fastembed-model-cache.ts b/packages/mnemopi/src/core/fastembed-model-cache.ts
index e88cf70a7..f31354765 100644
--- a/packages/mnemopi/src/core/fastembed-model-cache.ts
+++ b/packages/mnemopi/src/core/fastembed-model-cache.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 import * as path from "node:path";
 
-const FASTEMBED_TOKENIZER_SIDECARS = ["tokenizer.json", "tokenizer_config.json", "special_tokens_map.json"] as const;
+const FASTEMBED_MODEL_SIDECARS = [
+	"config.json",
+	"tokenizer.json",
+	"tokenizer_config.json",
+	"special_tokens_map.json",
+] as const;
 
 const FASTEMBED_HF_REPOS: Record<string, string> = {
 	"fast-all-MiniLM-L6-v2": "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2",
@@ -12,13 +17,13 @@ const FASTEMBED_HF_REPOS: Record<string, string> = {
 	"fast-multilingual-e5-large": "intfloat/multilingual-e5-large",
 };
 
-/** Download missing tokenizer sidecars into a fastembed model cache directory. */
-export async function ensureFastembedTokenizerSidecars(model: string, cacheDir = "local_cache"): Promise<boolean> {
+/** Download missing config/tokenizer sidecars into a fastembed model cache directory. */
+export async function ensureFastembedModelSidecars(model: string, cacheDir = "local_cache"): Promise<boolean> {
 	const repo = FASTEMBED_HF_REPOS[model];
 	if (repo === undefined) return false;
 
 	const modelDir = path.join(cacheDir, model);
-	for (const fileName of FASTEMBED_TOKENIZER_SIDECARS) {
+	for (const fileName of FASTEMBED_MODEL_SIDECARS) {
 		const target = path.join(modelDir, fileName);
 		if (await Bun.file(target).exists()) continue;
 
diff --git a/packages/mnemopi/test/fastembed-model-cache.test.ts b/packages/mnemopi/test/fastembed-model-cache.test.ts
index 890ea21dc..3097a8608 100644
--- a/packages/mnemopi/test/fastembed-model-cache.test.ts
+++ b/packages/mnemopi/test/fastembed-model-cache.test.ts
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ import { describe, expect, it, spyOn } from "bun:test";
 import * as fs from "node:fs/promises";
 import * as os from "node:os";
 import * as path from "node:path";
-import { ensureFastembedTokenizerSidecars } from "../src/core/fastembed-model-cache";
+import { ensureFastembedModelSidecars } from "../src/core/fastembed-model-cache";
 
 describe("fastembed model cache repair", () => {
-	it("downloads missing tokenizer sidecars without overwriting cached files", async () => {
+	it("downloads missing config and tokenizer sidecars without overwriting cached files", async () => {
 		const cacheDir = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "mnemopi-fastembed-"));
 		const model = "fast-bge-base-en-v1.5";
 		const modelDir = path.join(cacheDir, model);
@@ -25,12 +25,14 @@ describe("fastembed model cache repair", () => {
 			await fs.mkdir(modelDir, { recursive: true });
 			await Bun.write(path.join(modelDir, "tokenizer.json"), "cached-tokenizer");
 
-			expect(await ensureFastembedTokenizerSidecars(model, cacheDir)).toBe(true);
+			expect(await ensureFastembedModelSidecars(model, cacheDir)).toBe(true);
 
 			expect(requested).toEqual([
+				"https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5/resolve/main/config.json",
 				"https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5/resolve/main/tokenizer_config.json",
 				"https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5/resolve/main/special_tokens_map.json",
 			]);
+			expect(await Bun.file(path.join(modelDir, "config.json")).text()).toBe("body:config.json");
 			expect(await Bun.file(path.join(modelDir, "tokenizer.json")).text()).toBe("cached-tokenizer");
 			expect(await Bun.file(path.join(modelDir, "tokenizer_config.json")).text()).toBe("body:tokenizer_config.json");
 			expect(await Bun.file(path.join(modelDir, "special_tokens_map.json")).text()).toBe(
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ describe("fastembed model cache repair", () => {
 			),
 		);
 		try {
-			expect(await ensureFastembedTokenizerSidecars("unknown-model", "/tmp/missing")).toBe(false);
+			expect(await ensureFastembedModelSidecars("unknown-model", "/tmp/missing")).toBe(false);
 			expect(fetchSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
 		} finally {
 			fetchSpy.mockRestore();