diff --git a/config/retriex/retrieval.yaml b/config/retriex/retrieval.yaml
index c4cfa5f..95e9229 100644
--- a/config/retriex/retrieval.yaml
+++ b/config/retriex/retrieval.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Defaults are intentionally identical to the frozen 1.4.2 constants.
 parameters:
   retriex.retrieval.config:
-    hard_max_chunks: 6
+    hard_max_chunks: 8
     hard_max_vectork: 18
     hard_max_keywordk: 36
     vector_score_threshold: 0.83