diff --git a/api/corpus-documents.php b/api/corpus-documents.php
index 8e2a858..8b7862e 100644
--- a/api/corpus-documents.php
+++ b/api/corpus-documents.php
@@ -53,11 +53,8 @@ try {
     $countStmt->execute($countParams);
     $total = (int)$countStmt->fetchColumn();
 
-    // Paginated rows
-    $dataParams   = $params;
-    $dataParams[] = $limit;
-    $dataParams[] = $offset;
-    $dataStmt     = $ragDb->prepare(
+    // Paginated rows — LIMIT/OFFSET interpolated as ints (MariaDB rejects bound params here)
+    $dataStmt = $ragDb->prepare(
         "SELECT d.id, d.title, d.category, d.source_url, d.language, d.updated_at,
                 COUNT(c.id) AS chunk_count
          FROM documents d
@@ -65,9 +62,9 @@ try {
          WHERE $whereStr
          GROUP BY d.id
          ORDER BY d.updated_at DESC
-         LIMIT ? OFFSET ?"
+         LIMIT $limit OFFSET $offset"
     );
-    $dataStmt->execute($dataParams);
+    $dataStmt->execute($params);
     $documents = $dataStmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
 
     // Normalise chunk_count to int
diff --git a/api/corpus-search.php b/api/corpus-search.php
index 5d0a2ea..6155708 100644
--- a/api/corpus-search.php
+++ b/api/corpus-search.php
@@ -59,10 +59,9 @@ try {
                       AND d.source_url NOT LIKE ?
                     $catClause
                     ORDER BY score DESC
-                    LIMIT ?";
+                    LIMIT $limit";
             $params = [$query, 1, $query, $excludeLike];
             if ($category !== null) $params[] = $category;
-            $params[] = $limit;
             $stmt = $ragDb->prepare($sql);
             $stmt->execute($params);
             $rows = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
@@ -80,11 +79,10 @@ try {
                       AND d.source_url NOT LIKE ?
                     $catClause
                     ORDER BY (d.title LIKE ?) DESC
-                    LIMIT ?";
+                    LIMIT $limit";
             $params = [1, $like, $like, $excludeLike];
             if ($category !== null) $params[] = $category;
             $params[] = $like;
-            $params[] = $limit;
             $stmt = $ragDb->prepare($sql);
             $stmt->execute($params);
             $rows = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);