diff --git a/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/components/componentSearchV2Logic.test.ts b/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/components/componentSearchV2Logic.test.ts
index 5ede4030d..7d1f6497f 100644
--- a/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/components/componentSearchV2Logic.test.ts
+++ b/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/components/componentSearchV2Logic.test.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
   buildResults,
   buildSourcedHydratedReferences,
   collectAllSourcedReferences,
+  LEXICAL_RESULT_LIMIT,
   PUBLISHED_SOURCE,
   registeredLibrariesFingerprint,
   rerankedMatches,
@@ -287,6 +288,22 @@ describe("buildLexicalMatches / buildAiCandidateMatches", () => {
     expect(buildAiCandidateMatches(index, "")).toEqual([]);
   });
 
+  it("caps displayed lexical results below the AI candidate pool", () => {
+    const broadIndex = buildSearchIndex(
+      Array.from({ length: 20 }, (_, i) => ({
+        reference: ref(`train-${i}`, `train_${i}`),
+        source: source("standard"),
+      })),
+    );
+
+    expect(buildLexicalMatches(broadIndex, "train")).toHaveLength(
+      LEXICAL_RESULT_LIMIT,
+    );
+    expect(buildAiCandidateMatches(broadIndex, "train").length).toBeGreaterThan(
+      LEXICAL_RESULT_LIMIT,
+    );
+  });
+
   it("returns no AI candidates when literal search finds nothing", () => {
     expect(buildAiCandidateMatches(index, "qqzznomatch")).toEqual([]);
   });
diff --git a/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/components/componentSearchV2Logic.ts b/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/components/componentSearchV2Logic.ts
index 964bd1fdb..10e0ef128 100644
--- a/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/components/componentSearchV2Logic.ts
+++ b/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/components/componentSearchV2Logic.ts
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ import type {
   HydratedComponentReference,
 } from "@/utils/componentSpec";
 
-/** How many lexical hits to display before the user asks for AI judgment. */
-export const LEXICAL_RESULT_LIMIT = 50;
+/** How many hits to show by default before the user asks for AI judgment. */
+export const LEXICAL_RESULT_LIMIT = 10;
 const AI_CANDIDATE_LIMIT = 80;
 const AI_LEXICAL_CANDIDATE_LIMIT = 60;
 const AI_SOURCE_DIVERSITY_CANDIDATES_PER_SOURCE = 8;
diff --git a/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/hooks/useComponentSearchV2State.ts b/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/hooks/useComponentSearchV2State.ts
index 88a5a61b3..b61a63c0c 100644
--- a/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/hooks/useComponentSearchV2State.ts
+++ b/src/routes/v2/pages/Editor/hooks/useComponentSearchV2State.ts
@@ -238,9 +238,11 @@ export function useComponentSearchV2State(
     !isEmbeddingSearchPending &&
     (rerankData?.matches.length ?? 0) > 0;
 
-  const displayedMatches = isRerankActive
-    ? rerankedMatches(rerankData, rerankBaseMatches)
-    : lexicalMatches;
+  const displayedMatches = (
+    isRerankActive
+      ? rerankedMatches(rerankData, rerankBaseMatches)
+      : lexicalMatches
+  ).slice(0, LEXICAL_RESULT_LIMIT);
 
   const buildEmbeddingMatches = async ({
     sourceIndex,
diff --git a/src/services/componentSearchIndex.test.ts b/src/services/componentSearchIndex.test.ts
index 05edbbdcc..091bc12a4 100644
--- a/src/services/componentSearchIndex.test.ts
+++ b/src/services/componentSearchIndex.test.ts
@@ -1012,6 +1012,41 @@ describe("lexicalSearch", () => {
     expect(results[0]?.matchedFields).toContain("implementation");
   });
 
+  it("keeps implementation-only matches below intent-field matches", () => {
+    const index = buildSearchIndex([
+      makeSourced({
+        digest: "name-match",
+        spec: {
+          name: "word_counter",
+          inputs: [],
+          outputs: [],
+          implementation: { container: { image: "x" } },
+        },
+      }),
+      makeSourced({
+        digest: "command-comment-match",
+        spec: {
+          name: "binarize_column",
+          inputs: [],
+          outputs: [],
+          implementation: {
+            container: {
+              image: "python:3.11",
+              args: ["# exec() takes no keyword arguments"],
+            },
+          },
+        },
+      }),
+    ]);
+
+    const results = lexicalSearch(index, "word");
+    expect(results.map((result) => result.digest)).toEqual([
+      "name-match",
+      "command-comment-match",
+    ]);
+    expect(results[1]?.matchedFields).toContain("implementation");
+  });
+
   it("preserves the source on each returned match", () => {
     const index = buildSearchIndex(fixtures);
     const results = lexicalSearch(index, "my_custom_train");
diff --git a/src/services/componentSearchIndex.ts b/src/services/componentSearchIndex.ts
index 4652910f7..1a5512465 100644
--- a/src/services/componentSearchIndex.ts
+++ b/src/services/componentSearchIndex.ts
@@ -477,16 +477,20 @@ const FIELD_WEIGHTS: Record<MatchField, number> = {
   name: 5,
   description: 2,
   io: 2,
-  implementation: 1,
-  metadata: 1,
+  // Keep implementation/metadata searchable for recall, but make matches there
+  // much weaker than user-facing component intent fields. A common word in a
+  // command comment should not look as relevant as the same word in a name,
+  // description, or input/output.
+  implementation: 0.25,
+  metadata: 0.5,
 };
 
 const FIELD_PHRASE_BONUS: Record<MatchField, number> = {
   name: 10,
   description: 4,
   io: 4,
-  implementation: 2,
-  metadata: 2,
+  implementation: 0.5,
+  metadata: 1,
 };
 
 const PREFIX_MATCH_BONUS_MULTIPLIER = 0.5;