diff --git a/src/errors/brainyError.ts b/src/errors/brainyError.ts
index 4301d3f7..2fbdbe8d 100644
--- a/src/errors/brainyError.ts
+++ b/src/errors/brainyError.ts
@@ -412,18 +412,23 @@ export class MigrationInProgressError extends BrainyError {
  * embedding parked in the metadata bag would mint 384 postings for one row.
  * The bound exists to keep that out of the index.
  *
- * 64 is hardcoded on purpose (the zero-config law: no knob). It sits far above
+ * 256 is hardcoded on purpose (the zero-config law: no knob). It sits far above
  * every legitimate multi-value field the engine has seen — tags, authors,
- * categories, labels, participant lists — and far below any real embedding
- * width, so the two populations do not overlap and no caller has to tune it.
+ * categories, labels, keyword lists, participant lists — and still below the
+ * narrowest embedding this engine will ever meet (384 dimensions, the smallest
+ * model it ships), so the two populations do not overlap and no caller has to
+ * tune it. A vector parked in metadata is refused; a long keyword list is not.
  *
  * It replaces a limit of 10 that was applied SILENTLY: a row whose `tags` array
  * held eleven entries had that field skipped entirely and dropped out of every
  * filtered search on it, with no error, no warning and no way to tell the
  * difference from "no row matches". A rule this consequential is a law with a
  * name and a refusal, not a `continue`.
+ *
+ * This is the ONE place the number lives. Every message, warning, doc line and
+ * pin derives it from here — never a literal.
  */
-export const MAX_INDEXED_ARRAY_LENGTH = 64
+export const MAX_INDEXED_ARRAY_LENGTH = 256
 
 /**
  * A metadata field carries an array longer than {@link MAX_INDEXED_ARRAY_LENGTH}.
diff --git a/tests/integration/metadata-vector-exclusion.test.ts b/tests/integration/metadata-vector-exclusion.test.ts
index 0ca25388..1943b215 100644
--- a/tests/integration/metadata-vector-exclusion.test.ts
+++ b/tests/integration/metadata-vector-exclusion.test.ts
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ describe('Metadata Vector Exclusion Fix', () => {
     // silence at a bound of 10 — the field simply vanished from the index and
     // the row dropped out of every `where` on it, indistinguishably from "no
     // row matches". The bound is now MAX_INDEXED_ARRAY_LENGTH and it REFUSES.
-    const largeArray = Array.from({ length: 100 }, (_, i) => `item${i}`)
+    const overTheBound = MAX_INDEXED_ARRAY_LENGTH + 1
+    const largeArray = Array.from({ length: overTheBound }, (_, i) => `item${i}`)
 
     const err = await brainy
       .add({
@@ -176,7 +177,7 @@ describe('Metadata Vector Exclusion Fix', () => {
 
     expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(MetadataArrayTooLargeError)
     expect(err.field).toBe('items')
-    expect(err.length).toBe(100)
+    expect(err.length).toBe(overTheBound)
     expect(err.limit).toBe(MAX_INDEXED_ARRAY_LENGTH)
 
     // Nothing was indexed from the refused write — no 'items' field, and above
diff --git a/tests/unit/utils/metadataIndex-array-bound.test.ts b/tests/unit/utils/metadataIndex-array-bound.test.ts
index cbbf6b63..a96ae1d6 100644
--- a/tests/unit/utils/metadataIndex-array-bound.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/utils/metadataIndex-array-bound.test.ts
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@
  * and the caller had no way to tell that from "no row matches". Eleven tags is
  * not an exotic shape; the eleventh tag made the row invisible.
  *
- * THE LAW. Arrays of scalars index up to {@link MAX_INDEXED_ARRAY_LENGTH} = 64,
+ * THE LAW. Arrays of scalars index up to {@link MAX_INDEXED_ARRAY_LENGTH},
  * hardcoded (the zero-config law: no knob), which clears every legitimate
- * multi-value field and stays far below any embedding width. Above it the WRITE
+ * multi-value field — tags, authors, keyword lists — and stays below the
+ * narrowest embedding this engine meets (384 dimensions). Above it the WRITE
  * IS REFUSED by name — `MetadataArrayTooLargeError`, carrying the field, the
  * length and the bound — at `add`, `update`, `relate` and `updateRelation`
  * alike. Nothing is skipped in silence.
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ describe('the indexable-array bound', () => {
       }
     })
 
-    it('indexes right up to the bound — all 64 elements', async () => {
+    it('indexes right up to the bound — every element of it', async () => {
       await brain.add({
         id: 'at-bound',
         data: 'a row at the bound',
@@ -74,8 +75,9 @@ describe('the indexable-array bound', () => {
         vector: []
       })
 
-      // The first, the last, and one in the middle.
-      for (const tag of ['t0', `t${MAX_INDEXED_ARRAY_LENGTH - 1}`, 't31']) {
+      // The first, the last, and one in the middle — all derived from the
+      // bound, so the case follows the constant wherever it moves.
+      for (const tag of ['t0', `t${MAX_INDEXED_ARRAY_LENGTH - 1}`, `t${Math.floor(MAX_INDEXED_ARRAY_LENGTH / 2)}`]) {
         const hits = await brain.find({ where: { tags: tag }, limit: 10 } as any)
         expect(hits.map((r: any) => r.id)).toContain(resolveEntityId('at-bound'))
       }