diff --git a/AI/lib/search.js b/AI/lib/search.js
index 8875dc5..0383f8c 100644
--- a/AI/lib/search.js
+++ b/AI/lib/search.js
@@ -98,9 +98,27 @@ async function search(opts) {
     const rows = db.prepare(sql).all(...args);
     if (!rows.length) { db.close(); return { results: [], intents: [], scanned: 0 }; }
 
-    const qv      = await embedQuery(url, embedModel, query);
-    const intents = section ? [] : detectIntent(query);
-    const wantDoc = /\b(how do i|steps|procedure|setup|install|troubleshoot|guide)\b/i.test(query);
+    const qv  = await embedQuery(url, embedModel, query);
+    let intents = section ? [] : detectIntent(query);
+
+    // "What is Varaverk" and "what is arr_sync.sh" are not the same question, and the PURPOSE
+    // intent cannot tell them apart — it fires on both and boosts every PURPOSE block in the
+    // repository at once. There are a couple of hundred, each genuinely describing the purpose of
+    // something, and each a short sentence containing the word Varaverk. The project's own README
+    // then loses to a script that migrates storage modes, because a paragraph is more diluted
+    // than a one-line summary.
+    //
+    // A question that names the project and no component inside it is asking about the whole, so
+    // PURPOSE is precisely the wrong section to promote. Dropping only that intent, rather than
+    // all of them, leaves "why was Varaverk built this way" still routed to DESIGN PRINCIPLES.
+    const namesProject   = /\bvaraverk\b/i.test(query);
+    const namesComponent = /\b[\w.-]+\.(sh|php|js)\b|\b[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(_[A-Z0-9]+)+\b/.test(query);
+    const projectLevel   = namesProject && !namesComponent;
+    if (projectLevel) intents = intents.filter(s => s !== 'PURPOSE');
+
+    // The same question wants the top-level prose, which is what the doc kinds are.
+    const wantDoc = projectLevel
+                 || /\b(how do i|steps|procedure|setup|install|troubleshoot|guide)\b/i.test(query);
 
     const scored = rows.map(r => {
         let s = dot(qv, blobToVec(r.vector));