bundle gemma_assets (Gemma tokenizer + config sidecars) - the loader required them but they were never distributed; single-file-Gemma users hit 'sidecar files missing' even with a writable mount

gemma_assets/config.json

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+{
+  "architectures": [
+    "Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration"
+  ],
+  "boi_token_index": 255999,
+  "eoi_token_index": 256000,
+  "eos_token_id": [
+    1,
+    106
+  ],
+  "image_token_index": 262144,
+  "initializer_range": 0.02,
+  "mm_tokens_per_image": 256,
+  "model_type": "gemma3",
+  "text_config": {
+    "hidden_size": 3840,
+    "intermediate_size": 15360,
+    "model_type": "gemma3_text",
+    "num_attention_heads": 16,
+    "num_hidden_layers": 48,
+    "num_key_value_heads": 8,
+    "rope_scaling": {
+      "factor": 8.0,
+      "rope_type": "linear"
+    },
+    "sliding_window": 1024
+  },
+  "torch_dtype": "bfloat16",
+  "transformers_version": "4.50.0.dev0",
+  "vision_config": {
+    "hidden_size": 1152,
+    "image_size": 896,
+    "intermediate_size": 4304,
+    "model_type": "siglip_vision_model",
+    "num_attention_heads": 16,
+    "num_hidden_layers": 27,
+    "patch_size": 14,
+    "vision_use_head": false
+  }
+}

gemma_assets/preprocessor_config.json

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+{
+  "do_convert_rgb": null,
+  "do_normalize": true,
+  "do_pan_and_scan": null,
+  "do_rescale": true,
+  "do_resize": true,
+  "image_mean": [
+    0.5,
+    0.5,
+    0.5
+  ],
+  "image_processor_type": "Gemma3ImageProcessor",
+  "image_seq_length": 256,
+  "image_std": [
+    0.5,
+    0.5,
+    0.5
+  ],
+  "pan_and_scan_max_num_crops": null,
+  "pan_and_scan_min_crop_size": null,
+  "pan_and_scan_min_ratio_to_activate": null,
+  "processor_class": "Gemma3Processor",
+  "resample": 2,
+  "rescale_factor": 0.00392156862745098,
+  "size": {
+    "height": 896,
+    "width": 896
+  }
+}

gemma_assets/processor_config.json

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+{
+  "image_seq_length": 256,
+  "processor_class": "Gemma3Processor"
+}

gemma_assets/special_tokens_map.json

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+{
+  "boi_token": "<start_of_image>",
+  "bos_token": {
+    "content": "<bos>",
+    "lstrip": false,
+    "normalized": false,
+    "rstrip": false,
+    "single_word": false
+  },
+  "eoi_token": "<end_of_image>",
+  "eos_token": {
+    "content": "<eos>",
+    "lstrip": false,
+    "normalized": false,
+    "rstrip": false,
+    "single_word": false
+  },
+  "image_token": "<image_soft_token>",
+  "pad_token": {
+    "content": "<pad>",
+    "lstrip": false,
+    "normalized": false,
+    "rstrip": false,
+    "single_word": false
+  },
+  "unk_token": {
+    "content": "<unk>",
+    "lstrip": false,
+    "normalized": false,
+    "rstrip": false,
+    "single_word": false
+  }
+}

gemma_assets/tokenizer.model

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+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:1299c11d7cf632ef3b4e11937501358ada021bbdf7c47638d13c0ee982f2e79c
+size 4689074

rebels_loaders.py

@@ -845,11 +845,15 @@ class RebelsJE_TextEncoder:
                     "Searched, in order:\n    " + "\n    ".join(sidecar_sources) + "\n"
                     "Staging folder: " + temp_folder + "\n"
                     "If a file shows FOUND-but-could-not-stage, the staging folder is "
-                    "read-only (common for /media mounts) - the pack now falls back to a "
-                    "temp dir automatically, so update the pack. Otherwise the files ship "
-                    "in the pack's gemma_assets folder; re-download the pack rather than "
-                    "pulling configs from the google repo (google's config.json is the "
-                    "multimodal variant and is NOT compatible with this pipeline)."
+                    "read-only - the pack falls back to a temp dir automatically, so "
+                    "update the pack. If a file is 'not found in any searched location', "
+                    "your pack's gemma_assets folder is incomplete: update to the latest "
+                    "patch (it now bundles gemma_assets), OR copy the six sidecar files "
+                    "(config.json, preprocessor_config.json, processor_config.json, "
+                    "special_tokens_map.json, tokenizer_config.json, tokenizer.model) "
+                    "directly into the same folder as your Gemma weights. Do NOT pull "
+                    "config.json from the google repo - that is the multimodal variant "
+                    "and is NOT compatible with this pipeline."
                 )
                         
             model_folder = Path(temp_folder)