diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index c9ddf6c..52998fe 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ requirements-dev.txt
 .env
 .env.*
 !.env.example
+pyproject.toml
 
 # Git history
 .git/
@@ -41,3 +42,7 @@ scripts/
 # Docs
 walkthrough.md
 fix_completion_plan.md
+
+# Model variants not used in production image
+# Only qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf is bundled
+models/qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf
diff --git a/scripts/download_model.sh b/scripts/download_model.sh
index eea7a3c..2cdc465 100644
--- a/scripts/download_model.sh
+++ b/scripts/download_model.sh
@@ -3,16 +3,16 @@ set -e
 
 mkdir -p models
 
-MODEL_PATH="models/qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf"
+MODEL_PATH="models/qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf"
 
 if [ ! -f "$MODEL_PATH" ]; then
-    echo "Downloading Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-GGUF (Q4_K_M)..."
-    if ! command -v hf &> /dev/null; then
+    echo "Downloading Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF (Q4_K_M)..."
+    if command -v hf &> /dev/null; then
         echo "Using HuggingFace CLI..."
-        hf download Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-GGUF qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf --local-dir models --local-dir-use-symlinks False
+        hf download Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf --local-dir models --local-dir-use-symlinks False
     else
         echo "HuggingFace CLI not found, falling back to curl..."
-        curl -L -o "$MODEL_PATH" "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-GGUF/resolve/main/qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf"
+        curl -L -o "$MODEL_PATH" "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF/resolve/main/qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf"
     fi
     echo "Download completed."
 else