Tasks

• Sidecar under asr/engine/ using fractal1 ~/aicam/parakeet-cpu INT8 weights
• Force CPU: CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES= and providers=["CPUExecutionProvider"]
• Keep process warm; second transcribe does not re-download / re-load encoder
• Sidecar is a Bun child on stdin/IPC — no TCP/UDP listener
• Smoke: 2086-149220-0033.wav; nvidia-smi memory.used unchanged (fractal1, after deploy)