The 'skip if outputs newer than every HTML' check could never fire:
stamp-build-time.py rewrites every page's footer AFTER embed.py runs,
so the comparison was always false and the full MiniLM paragraph pass
(and model load) ran on every build (AUDIT §4.3). Replaced with the
same content-hash cache the page pass already had — generalized
load/save_vec_cache, keyed by sha256 of the input text, invalidated on
model/revision/dim change. A no-change rerun now does no model loads:
measured 97s cold -> 4.8s warm.
Also strips section.footnotes from extraction: the new no-JS fallback
duplicates each sidenote's text at document end, which would double
footnotes in search results and skew page similarity.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Levi Neuwirth
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