diff --git a/src/embeddings.ts b/src/embeddings.ts
index 8d31233..c59110b 100644
--- a/src/embeddings.ts
+++ b/src/embeddings.ts
@@ -1,15 +1,21 @@
-import { pipeline, Pipeline, FeatureExtractionPipeline } from '@xenova/transformers';
+import { pipeline, Pipeline, FeatureExtractionPipeline, env } from '@xenova/transformers';
+
+// Disable progress callbacks to prevent stdout pollution in MCP context
+// In MCP, stdout is reserved for JSON-RPC communication
+env.allowLocalModels = true;
+env.useBrowserCache = false;
 
 let embeddingPipeline: FeatureExtractionPipeline | null = null;
 
 export async function initEmbeddings(): Promise<void> {
   if (!embeddingPipeline) {
-    console.log('Loading embedding model (first run may take time)...');
+    console.error('Loading embedding model (first run may take time)...');
     embeddingPipeline = await pipeline(
       'feature-extraction',
-      'Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2'
+      'Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2',
+      { progress_callback: null }  // Disable progress output to stdout
     );
-    console.log('Embedding model loaded');
+    console.error('Embedding model loaded');
   }
 }