diff --git a/skillcorpus_plugin/plugin-raven/skillsearch_raven/raven-plugin.toml b/skillcorpus_plugin/plugin-raven/skillsearch_raven/raven-plugin.toml
index 136475d..a881795 100644
--- a/skillcorpus_plugin/plugin-raven/skillsearch_raven/raven-plugin.toml
+++ b/skillcorpus_plugin/plugin-raven/skillsearch_raven/raven-plugin.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,10 @@ weight_local  = { type = "number",  default = 1.0 }
 weight_hub    = { type = "number",  default = 0.85 }
 over_fetch    = { type = "integer", default = 2 }
 dedup_by      = { type = "string",  enum = ["name", "qualified_id"], default = "qualified_id" }
-top_k         = { type = "integer", default = 5 }
+# Matches SearchConfig.top_k. Every other host defaults to 2; a 5 here made
+# Raven the one host that injected five bodies a turn, because the plugin
+# registry fills a declared default for every key the operator leaves out.
+top_k         = { type = "integer", default = 2 }
 
 # Narrowing. Both the rewriter and the gate need a model; leaving `model`
 # empty runs retrieval raw.