diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-pip.yml b/.github/workflows/build-pip.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..855da5821
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-pip.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+name: Build pip wheels
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  build-wheels:
+    name: Build wheels on ${{ matrix.os }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 120
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-14, macos-15-intel, windows-2022, 2-core-ubuntu-arm]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683  # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
+
+      - name: Build wheels
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@ee02a1537ce3071a004a6b08c41e72f0fdc42d9a  # v3.4.0
+        env:
+          CIBW_BUILD_VERBOSITY: 1
+
+      - name: Upload wheels
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02  # v4.6.2
+        with:
+          name: wheels-${{ matrix.os }}
+          path: wheelhouse/*.whl
+
+  publish:
+    name: Publish to PyPI
+    needs: [build-wheels]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+    environment:
+      name: pypi
+      url: https://pypi.org/p/faiss-cpu
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      contents: read
+    steps:
+      - name: Download all artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@65a9edc5881444af0b9093a5e628f2fe47ea3b2e  # v4.1.7
+        with:
+          path: dist
+          merge-multiple: true
+
+      - name: Publish to PyPI
+        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@76f52bc884231f62b9a034ebfe128415bbaabdfc  # release/v1
+
+  publish-testpypi:
+    name: Publish to TestPyPI
+    needs: [build-wheels]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
+    environment:
+      name: testpypi
+      url: https://test.pypi.org/p/faiss-cpu
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      contents: read
+    steps:
+      - name: Download all artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@65a9edc5881444af0b9093a5e628f2fe47ea3b2e  # v4.1.7
+        with:
+          path: dist
+          merge-multiple: true
+
+      - name: Publish to TestPyPI
+        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@76f52bc884231f62b9a034ebfe128415bbaabdfc  # release/v1
+        with:
+          repository-url: https://test.pypi.org/legacy/
+          skip-existing: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 82792cbc7..05f66a49f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -15,3 +15,5 @@ jobs:
     secrets:
       ANACONDA_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ANACONDA_API_TOKEN }}
     if: github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+  build-pip:
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-pip.yml
diff --git a/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES b/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e06ba0bed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES
@@ -0,0 +1,410 @@
+Third-Party Notices for faiss pip wheels
+========================================
+
+The faiss pip wheels bundle the following third-party libraries as binary
+dependencies. Their licenses are reproduced below.
+
+
+1. OpenBLAS (Linux, Windows wheels)
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Copyright (c) 2011-2014, The OpenBLAS Project
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
+met:
+
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+
+   2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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+      the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
+      distribution.
+   3. Neither the name of the OpenBLAS project nor the names of
+      its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
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+USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+License: BSD-3-Clause
+Source: https://github.com/OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS
+
+
+2. LLVM OpenMP Runtime (libomp) (macOS wheels)
+-----------------------------------------------
+
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diff --git a/faiss/CMakeLists.txt b/faiss/CMakeLists.txt
index 0a08f8783..ea7033182 100644
--- a/faiss/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/faiss/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -652,14 +652,28 @@ if(MKL_FOUND)
   target_link_libraries(faiss_avx512_spr PRIVATE ${MKL_LIBRARIES})
   target_link_libraries(faiss_sve PRIVATE ${MKL_LIBRARIES})
 else()
-  find_package(BLAS REQUIRED)
+  # Prefer threaded OpenBLAS (OpenMP or pthreads) over the serial default.
+  # On RHEL/Fedora, the default libopenblas.so is the serial variant;
+  # libopenblaso is OpenMP-threaded and libopenblasp is pthreads-threaded.
+  find_library(BLAS_PREFER_THREADED NAMES openblaso openblasp)
+  if(BLAS_PREFER_THREADED)
+    message(STATUS "Using threaded OpenBLAS: ${BLAS_PREFER_THREADED}")
+    set(BLAS_LIBRARIES "${BLAS_PREFER_THREADED}")
+    # OpenBLAS bundles LAPACK routines, so no separate find_package(LAPACK)
+    # is needed. Calling it would trigger FindBLAS internally, which
+    # unconditionally resets BLAS_LIBRARIES to the serial libopenblas,
+    # causing auditwheel to bundle both serial and threaded variants.
+    set(LAPACK_LIBRARIES "${BLAS_PREFER_THREADED}")
+  else()
+    find_package(BLAS REQUIRED)
+    find_package(LAPACK REQUIRED)
+  endif()
   target_link_libraries(faiss PRIVATE ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
   target_link_libraries(faiss_avx2 PRIVATE ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
   target_link_libraries(faiss_avx512 PRIVATE ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
   target_link_libraries(faiss_avx512_spr PRIVATE ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
   target_link_libraries(faiss_sve PRIVATE ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
 
-  find_package(LAPACK REQUIRED)
   target_link_libraries(faiss PRIVATE ${LAPACK_LIBRARIES})
   target_link_libraries(faiss_avx2 PRIVATE ${LAPACK_LIBRARIES})
   target_link_libraries(faiss_avx512 PRIVATE ${LAPACK_LIBRARIES})
diff --git a/faiss/python/CMakeLists.txt b/faiss/python/CMakeLists.txt
index ca521d756..765c9d2b9 100644
--- a/faiss/python/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/faiss/python/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -184,15 +184,7 @@ set_property(TARGET faiss_example_external_module PROPERTY SWIG_COMPILE_OPTIONS
 if(AIX)
   set_target_properties(swigfaiss PROPERTIES SUFFIX .a)
   set_target_properties(faiss_example_external_module PROPERTIES SUFFIX .a)
-elseif(NOT WIN32)
-  # NOTE: Python does not recognize the dylib extension.
-  set_target_properties(swigfaiss PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
-  set_target_properties(swigfaiss_avx2 PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
-  set_target_properties(swigfaiss_avx512 PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
-  set_target_properties(swigfaiss_avx512_spr PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
-  set_target_properties(swigfaiss_sve PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
-  set_target_properties(faiss_example_external_module PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
-else()
+elseif(WIN32)
   # we need bigobj for the swig wrapper
   target_compile_options(swigfaiss PRIVATE /bigobj)
   target_compile_options(swigfaiss_avx2 PRIVATE /bigobj)
@@ -200,6 +192,15 @@ else()
   target_compile_options(swigfaiss_avx512_spr PRIVATE /bigobj)
   target_compile_options(swigfaiss_sve PRIVATE /bigobj)
   target_compile_options(faiss_example_external_module PRIVATE /bigobj)
+elseif(NOT SKBUILD_SABI_VERSION)
+  # NOTE: Python does not recognize the dylib extension.
+  # When building abi3, the suffix is set to .abi3.so below.
+  set_target_properties(swigfaiss PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
+  set_target_properties(swigfaiss_avx2 PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
+  set_target_properties(swigfaiss_avx512 PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
+  set_target_properties(swigfaiss_avx512_spr PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
+  set_target_properties(swigfaiss_sve PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
+  set_target_properties(faiss_example_external_module PROPERTIES SUFFIX .so)
 endif()
 
 if(FAISS_ENABLE_SVS)
@@ -239,43 +240,80 @@ endif()
 
 find_package(OpenMP REQUIRED)
 
+# When scikit-build-core requests abi3 (Stable ABI), it passes
+# SKBUILD_SABI_VERSION. Use Development.SABIModule to link against the
+# stable Python ABI instead of the version-specific one.
+if(SKBUILD_SABI_VERSION)
+  find_package(Python REQUIRED
+    COMPONENTS Development.SABIModule NumPy
+  )
+else()
+  find_package(Python REQUIRED
+    COMPONENTS Development.Module NumPy
+  )
+endif()
+
+# Select the Python module target based on whether abi3 is requested.
+if(SKBUILD_SABI_VERSION)
+  set(FAISS_PYTHON_MODULE_TARGET Python::SABIModule)
+else()
+  set(FAISS_PYTHON_MODULE_TARGET Python::Module)
+endif()
+
+# When building for abi3, define Py_LIMITED_API and set the .abi3.so suffix
+# so the wheel is tagged as abi3-compatible.
+if(SKBUILD_SABI_VERSION)
+  # 0x030A0000 = Python 3.10
+  set(FAISS_PY_LIMITED_API "0x030A0000")
+  foreach(tgt swigfaiss swigfaiss_avx2 swigfaiss_avx512
+      swigfaiss_avx512_spr swigfaiss_sve faiss_example_external_module)
+    if(TARGET ${tgt})
+      target_compile_definitions(${tgt}
+        PRIVATE Py_LIMITED_API=${FAISS_PY_LIMITED_API})
+      if(NOT WIN32)
+        set_target_properties(${tgt} PROPERTIES SUFFIX ".abi3.so")
+      endif()
+    endif()
+  endforeach()
+endif()
+
 target_link_libraries(swigfaiss PRIVATE
   faiss
-  Python::Module
+  ${FAISS_PYTHON_MODULE_TARGET}
   Python::NumPy
   OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX
 )
 
 target_link_libraries(swigfaiss_avx2 PRIVATE
   faiss_avx2
-  Python::Module
+  ${FAISS_PYTHON_MODULE_TARGET}
   Python::NumPy
   OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX
 )
 
 target_link_libraries(swigfaiss_avx512 PRIVATE
   faiss_avx512
-  Python::Module
+  ${FAISS_PYTHON_MODULE_TARGET}
   Python::NumPy
   OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX
 )
 
 target_link_libraries(swigfaiss_avx512_spr PRIVATE
   faiss_avx512_spr
-  Python::Module
+  ${FAISS_PYTHON_MODULE_TARGET}
   Python::NumPy
   OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX
 )
 
 target_link_libraries(swigfaiss_sve PRIVATE
   faiss_sve
-  Python::Module
+  ${FAISS_PYTHON_MODULE_TARGET}
   Python::NumPy
   OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX
 )
 
 target_link_libraries(faiss_example_external_module PRIVATE
-  Python::Module
+  ${FAISS_PYTHON_MODULE_TARGET}
   Python::NumPy
   OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX
   swigfaiss
@@ -291,16 +329,16 @@ target_include_directories(swigfaiss_avx512_spr PRIVATE ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/..
 target_include_directories(swigfaiss_sve PRIVATE ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../..)
 target_include_directories(faiss_example_external_module PRIVATE ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../..)
 
-find_package(Python REQUIRED
-  COMPONENTS Development.Module NumPy
-)
-
 add_library(faiss_python_callbacks STATIC EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
   python_callbacks.cpp
 )
 set_property(TARGET faiss_python_callbacks
   PROPERTY POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON
 )
+if(SKBUILD_SABI_VERSION)
+  target_compile_definitions(faiss_python_callbacks
+    PRIVATE Py_LIMITED_API=${FAISS_PY_LIMITED_API})
+endif()
 
 if ("${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}" MATCHES "AIX")
 target_link_libraries(faiss_python_callbacks PRIVATE faiss)
@@ -328,3 +366,95 @@ configure_file(array_conversions.py array_conversions.py COPYONLY)
 
 # file(GLOB files "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../contrib/*.py")
 file(COPY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../contrib  DESTINATION .)
+
+# Install targets for scikit-build-core / pip wheel packaging.
+
+# Set RPATH so the SWIG modules find libfaiss in the same directory.
+# auditwheel/delocate follow RPATH to locate libraries for bundling.
+foreach(tgt swigfaiss swigfaiss_avx2 swigfaiss_avx512
+    swigfaiss_avx512_spr swigfaiss_sve)
+  if(TARGET ${tgt})
+    if(APPLE)
+      set_target_properties(${tgt} PROPERTIES INSTALL_RPATH "@loader_path")
+    else()
+      set_target_properties(${tgt} PROPERTIES INSTALL_RPATH "$ORIGIN")
+    endif()
+  endif()
+endforeach()
+
+# Install the SWIG extension modules (.so/.pyd).
+# In DD mode, swigfaiss_avx2/avx512/avx512_spr/sve are also built and
+# loader.py selects the best one at runtime based on CPU capabilities.
+foreach(tgt swigfaiss swigfaiss_avx2 swigfaiss_avx512
+    swigfaiss_avx512_spr swigfaiss_sve)
+  if(TARGET ${tgt})
+    get_target_property(_excluded ${tgt} EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+    if(NOT _excluded)
+      install(TARGETS ${tgt}
+        LIBRARY DESTINATION faiss
+        RUNTIME DESTINATION faiss
+      )
+    endif()
+  endif()
+endforeach()
+
+# Install the core faiss shared libraries into the Python package directory
+# so that auditwheel/delocate can find and bundle them with the SWIG modules.
+# Guard: when Python bindings are built standalone (e.g. conda), the faiss
+# target is an installed import library, not a build target.
+foreach(tgt faiss faiss_avx2 faiss_avx512 faiss_avx512_spr faiss_sve)
+  if(TARGET ${tgt})
+    get_target_property(_imported ${tgt} IMPORTED)
+    get_target_property(_excluded ${tgt} EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+    if(NOT _imported AND NOT _excluded)
+      install(TARGETS ${tgt}
+        LIBRARY DESTINATION faiss
+        RUNTIME DESTINATION faiss
+      )
+    endif()
+  endif()
+endforeach()
+
+# Install SWIG-generated Python wrappers.
+# In DD mode, each variant has its own .py wrapper that loader.py imports.
+foreach(mod swigfaiss swigfaiss_avx2 swigfaiss_avx512
+    swigfaiss_avx512_spr swigfaiss_sve)
+  if(EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${mod}.py" OR TARGET ${mod})
+    install(FILES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${mod}.py"
+      DESTINATION faiss
+      OPTIONAL
+    )
+  endif()
+endforeach()
+
+# Install hand-written Python source files
+install(FILES
+  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/__init__.py"
+  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/loader.py"
+  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/class_wrappers.py"
+  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/extra_wrappers.py"
+  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/gpu_wrappers.py"
+  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/array_conversions.py"
+  DESTINATION faiss
+)
+
+# Install type stubs if present
+if(EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/__init__.pyi")
+  install(FILES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/__init__.pyi" DESTINATION faiss)
+endif()
+if(EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/py.typed")
+  install(FILES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/py.typed" DESTINATION faiss)
+endif()
+
+# Install contrib subpackage (excluding Meta-internal *_fb.py files)
+install(DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../contrib/"
+  DESTINATION faiss/contrib
+  FILES_MATCHING PATTERN "*.py"
+  PATTERN "*_fb.py" EXCLUDE
+)
+
+# Install contrib/torch subpackage data files
+install(DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../contrib/torch/"
+  DESTINATION faiss/contrib/torch
+  FILES_MATCHING PATTERN "*.md"
+)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..476c9aa36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["scikit-build-core>=0.10", "swig>=4.2,<5", "numpy>=2.0"]
+build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
+
+[project]
+name = "faiss-cpu"
+dynamic = ["version"]
+description = "A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors."
+readme = "README.md"
+license = "MIT"
+license-files = ["LICENSE", "THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES"]
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
+authors = [
+  {name = "Meta AI Research"},
+]
+keywords = ["search", "nearest-neighbors", "clustering", "vectors", "similarity"]
+classifiers = [
+  "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+  "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+  "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+  "Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X",
+  "Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows",
+  "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux",
+  "Programming Language :: C++",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14",
+  "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
+]
+dependencies = ["numpy>=1.25", "packaging"]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss"
+Documentation = "https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki"
+Repository = "https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss"
+Issues = "https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/issues"
+
+[tool.scikit-build]
+cmake.build-type = "Release"
+
+# Pull version from CMakeLists.txt's project(VERSION ...) — single source of truth.
+metadata.version.provider = "scikit_build_core.metadata.regex"
+metadata.version.input = "CMakeLists.txt"
+metadata.version.regex = '^\s+VERSION\s+(?P<value>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)'
+
+# Exclude C++ headers, cmake configs, static libs, and binaries from the wheel.
+# Only the Python package (faiss/) and bundled shared libs remain.
+wheel.exclude = ["include/**", "share/**", "lib/**", "lib64/**", "bin/**"]
+
+[tool.scikit-build.cmake.define]
+FAISS_OPT_LEVEL = "dd"
+FAISS_ENABLE_GPU = "OFF"
+FAISS_ENABLE_PYTHON = "ON"
+FAISS_ENABLE_MKL = "OFF"
+FAISS_ENABLE_C_API = "OFF"
+FAISS_ENABLE_EXTRAS = "OFF"
+FAISS_ENABLE_SVS = "OFF"
+FAISS_USE_LTO = "OFF"
+BUILD_TESTING = "OFF"
+BUILD_SHARED_LIBS = "ON"
+
+# Linux: enable LTO and strip dead code and symbols to reduce wheel size.
+[[tool.scikit-build.overrides]]
+if.platform-system = "linux"
+inherit.cmake.define = "append"
+cmake.define.FAISS_USE_LTO = "ON"
+cmake.define.CMAKE_C_FLAGS = "-fdata-sections -ffunction-sections"
+cmake.define.CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS = "-fdata-sections -ffunction-sections"
+cmake.define.CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS = "-Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--strip-all"
+cmake.define.CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS = "-Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--strip-all"
+
+# macOS: enable LTO and strip dead code to reduce wheel size.
+[[tool.scikit-build.overrides]]
+if.platform-system = "darwin"
+inherit.cmake.define = "append"
+cmake.define.FAISS_USE_LTO = "ON"
+cmake.define.CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS = "-Wl,-dead_strip"
+cmake.define.CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS = "-Wl,-dead_strip"
+
+# Stable ABI (abi3): one cp310 wheel covers all 3.10+.
+# Excluded: Windows (abi3+SWIG+NumPy broken), free-threaded (no stable ABI).
+[[tool.scikit-build.overrides]]
+if.platform-system = "^(darwin|linux)"
+if.abi-flags = "^$"  # Free-threaded Python does not support stable ABI.
+wheel.py-api = "cp310"
+
+# macOS arm64: AppleClang lacks OpenMP; point CMake at Homebrew's libomp.
+# BLAS uses Apple Accelerate (found automatically).
+[[tool.scikit-build.overrides]]
+if.platform-system = "darwin"
+if.platform-machine = "arm64"
+inherit.cmake.define = "append"
+cmake.define.OpenMP_CXX_FLAGS = "-Xpreprocessor -fopenmp -I/opt/homebrew/opt/libomp/include"
+cmake.define.OpenMP_CXX_LIB_NAMES = "omp"
+cmake.define.OpenMP_omp_LIBRARY = "/opt/homebrew/opt/libomp/lib/libomp.dylib"
+
+# macOS Intel: Homebrew installs to /usr/local instead of /opt/homebrew.
+[[tool.scikit-build.overrides]]
+if.platform-system = "darwin"
+if.platform-machine = "x86_64"
+inherit.cmake.define = "append"
+cmake.define.OpenMP_CXX_FLAGS = "-Xpreprocessor -fopenmp -I/usr/local/opt/libomp/include"
+cmake.define.OpenMP_CXX_LIB_NAMES = "omp"
+cmake.define.OpenMP_omp_LIBRARY = "/usr/local/opt/libomp/lib/libomp.dylib"
+
+# Windows: compile generic (no SIMD), use OpenBLAS.
+[[tool.scikit-build.overrides]]
+if.platform-system = "win32"
+inherit.cmake.define = "append"
+cmake.define.FAISS_OPT_LEVEL = "generic"
+
+[tool.cibuildwheel]
+# Build all Python versions on Windows (no abi3); cp310 only on Linux/macOS (abi3).
+# Skip 32-bit, musl, and free-threaded builds.
+build = "cp310-* cp311-* cp312-* cp313-* cp314-*"
+skip = "*-win32 *-manylinux_i686 *-musllinux_* cp3*t-*"
+test-requires = ["numpy", "pytest", "scipy"]
+test-command = "python -m pytest {project}/tests/test_wheel_smoke.py -v"
+
+# On Linux and macOS, only build the cp310 abi3 wheel.
+[[tool.cibuildwheel.overrides]]
+select = "*-manylinux* *-macosx*"
+build = "cp310-*"
+
+# Run abi3audit on Linux and macOS to guarantee Stable ABI compliance.
+# We use 'append' so that the default auditwheel/delocate commands still run first.
+[[tool.cibuildwheel.overrides]]
+select = "*-manylinux* *-macosx*"
+inherit.repair-wheel-command = "append"
+repair-wheel-command = "pipx run abi3audit --strict --report {wheel}"
+
+# Linux: Install OpenBLAS (threaded variant for multi-threaded BLAS).
+[[tool.cibuildwheel.overrides]]
+select = "*-manylinux*"
+before-all = "dnf install -y openblas-devel openblas-openmp"
+
+[tool.cibuildwheel.macos]
+before-all = "brew install libomp"
+
+# Deployment target must match brew dylibs' minos for delocate compatibility.
+[[tool.cibuildwheel.overrides]]
+select = "*-macosx_arm64"
+environment = {MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = "14.0"}
+
+# macOS Intel: runner uses macOS 15, so brew dylibs have minos 15.0.
+[[tool.cibuildwheel.overrides]]
+select = "*-macosx_x86_64"
+environment = {MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = "15.0"}
+
+[tool.cibuildwheel.windows]
+# Install prebuilt OpenBLAS (statically-linked MinGW runtime, no external deps).
+before-all = "powershell -Command \"Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://github.com/OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS/releases/download/v0.3.30/OpenBLAS-0.3.30-x64.zip' -OutFile openblas.zip; Expand-Archive openblas.zip -DestinationPath C:/openblas -Force\""
+repair-wheel-command = "pip install delvewheel && delvewheel repair -w {dest_dir} {wheel} --add-path C:/openblas/bin --ignore-in-wheel"
+
+[tool.cibuildwheel.windows.environment]
+# BLAS_ROOT tells CMake's FindBLAS (via CMP0074) where to find OpenBLAS.
+# PATH includes the bin/ dir so delvewheel and tests can find libopenblas.dll.
+BLAS_ROOT = "C:/openblas"
+LAPACK_ROOT = "C:/openblas"
+PATH = "C:/openblas/bin;$PATH"
diff --git a/tests/test_wheel_smoke.py b/tests/test_wheel_smoke.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5697fe236
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_wheel_smoke.py
@@ -0,0 +1,199 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+"""
+Wheel smoke tests for faiss-cpu pip package.
+
+These tests validate that a pip-installed wheel is correctly packaged:
+  - Shared libraries load (SWIG, BLAS, OpenMP)
+  - Core search functionality works
+  - Key index types are registered
+  - Serialization roundtrips
+  - Python reference counting is safe
+  - Contrib submodules are included
+
+They are intentionally minimal and fast (~15s total). The full test suite
+runs separately in the cmake-based CI.
+"""
+
+import platform
+import unittest
+import numpy as np
+
+import faiss
+
+
+class TestImportAndMetadata(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Catch: missing shared libs, broken SWIG, wrong Python ABI."""
+
+    def test_version_attribute(self):
+        assert hasattr(faiss, "__version__")
+        parts = faiss.__version__.split(".")
+        assert len(parts) == 3
+        assert all(p.isdigit() for p in parts)
+
+    def test_compile_options(self):
+        opts = faiss.get_compile_options()
+        assert isinstance(opts, str)
+
+
+class TestOpenMP(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Catch: OpenMP not linked."""
+
+    def test_openmp_threads(self):
+        n = faiss.omp_get_max_threads()
+        assert n >= 1
+        faiss.omp_set_num_threads(2)
+        assert faiss.omp_get_max_threads() == 2
+        # Restore
+        faiss.omp_set_num_threads(n)
+
+
+class TestFlatSearch(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Catch: BLAS not linked, SIMD codepath issues."""
+
+    def test_flat_l2(self):
+        d, n = 64, 1000
+        np.random.seed(42)
+        xb = np.random.random((n, d)).astype("float32")
+        index = faiss.IndexFlatL2(d)
+        index.add(xb)
+        D, I = index.search(xb[:5], 10)
+        assert I.shape == (5, 10)
+        # Nearest neighbor of each vector should be itself
+        np.testing.assert_array_equal(I[:, 0], np.arange(5))
+        # Self-distance should be ~0
+        np.testing.assert_allclose(D[:, 0], 0, atol=1e-5)
+
+    def test_flat_ip(self):
+        d, n = 64, 1000
+        np.random.seed(42)
+        xb = np.random.random((n, d)).astype("float32")
+        faiss.normalize_L2(xb)
+        index = faiss.IndexFlatIP(d)
+        index.add(xb)
+        D, I = index.search(xb[:5], 10)
+        assert I.shape == (5, 10)
+        np.testing.assert_array_equal(I[:, 0], np.arange(5))
+        np.testing.assert_allclose(D[:, 0], 1.0, atol=1e-5)
+
+
+class TestIndexFactory(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Catch: missing index implementations, broken factory string parsing."""
+
+    def test_ivf_pq(self):
+        d, n = 64, 10000
+        np.random.seed(42)
+        xb = np.random.random((n, d)).astype("float32")
+        index = faiss.index_factory(d, "IVF32,PQ8")
+        assert not index.is_trained
+        index.train(xb)
+        assert index.is_trained
+        index.add(xb)
+        assert index.ntotal == n
+        D, I = index.search(xb[:5], 10)
+        assert I.shape == (5, 10)
+
+    def test_hnsw(self):
+        d, n = 64, 2000
+        np.random.seed(42)
+        xb = np.random.random((n, d)).astype("float32")
+        index = faiss.IndexHNSWFlat(d, 16)
+        index.add(xb)
+        assert index.ntotal == n
+        D, I = index.search(xb[:5], 10)
+        assert I.shape == (5, 10)
+        # HNSW should find the vector itself as nearest neighbor
+        np.testing.assert_array_equal(I[:, 0], np.arange(5))
+
+
+class TestSerialization(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Catch: broken I/O, buffer handling."""
+
+    def test_serialize_deserialize_roundtrip(self):
+        d = 32
+        np.random.seed(42)
+        xb = np.random.random((100, d)).astype("float32")
+        index = faiss.IndexFlatL2(d)
+        index.add(xb)
+
+        # Serialize to bytes
+        data = faiss.serialize_index(index)
+        assert isinstance(data, np.ndarray)
+        assert data.dtype == np.uint8
+
+        # Deserialize
+        index2 = faiss.deserialize_index(data)
+        assert index2.ntotal == 100
+
+        # Results should match
+        D1, I1 = index.search(xb[:3], 5)
+        D2, I2 = index2.search(xb[:3], 5)
+        np.testing.assert_array_equal(I1, I2)
+        np.testing.assert_allclose(D1, D2)
+
+
+class TestGCSafety(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Catch: Python reference counting bugs, crashes on GC."""
+
+    def test_ivf_quantizer_lifecycle(self):
+        d, n = 32, 5000
+        np.random.seed(42)
+        xb = np.random.random((n, d)).astype("float32")
+
+        quantizer = faiss.IndexFlatL2(d)
+        index = faiss.IndexIVFFlat(quantizer, d, 32)
+        index.train(xb)
+        index.add(xb)
+
+        # Delete the quantizer reference — the index should still work
+        # because faiss.__init__.py adds it to referenced_objects
+        del quantizer
+
+        D, I = index.search(xb[:3], 5)
+        assert I.shape == (3, 5)
+
+
+class TestContribImports(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Catch: missing Python files in the wheel."""
+
+    def test_contrib_modules(self):
+        import faiss.contrib.datasets
+        import faiss.contrib.evaluation
+        import faiss.contrib.inspect_tools
+        import faiss.contrib.ivf_tools
+        import faiss.contrib.exhaustive_search
+        import faiss.contrib.factory_tools
+        import faiss.contrib.vecs_io  # noqa: F401
+
+    def test_contrib_torch_subpackage(self):
+        try:
+            import torch  # noqa: F401
+        except ImportError:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("torch not available")
+        import faiss.contrib.torch
+        import faiss.contrib.torch.clustering
+        import faiss.contrib.torch.quantization  # noqa: F401
+
+
+class TestSIMD(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Catch: Dynamic Dispatch not selecting a SIMD path (x86_64 only)."""
+
+    @unittest.skipIf(
+        platform.machine() not in ("x86_64", "AMD64"),
+        "SIMD level check only meaningful on x86_64",
+    )
+    @unittest.skipIf(
+        platform.system() == "Windows",
+        "Windows wheels are built generic (no SIMD) — see pyproject.toml",
+    )
+    def test_dd_selects_simd_path(self):
+        opts = faiss.get_compile_options()
+        if "DD" not in opts:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("Not a Dynamic Dispatch build")
+        # DD builds should select at least AVX2 on modern x86_64
+        assert "AVX2" in opts or "AVX512" in opts, (
+            f"DD build did not select a SIMD path: {opts}"
+        )