diff --git a/servers/unraid/supermemory-poc/README.md b/servers/unraid/supermemory-poc/README.md
index 95ebff5..b884c75 100644
--- a/servers/unraid/supermemory-poc/README.md
+++ b/servers/unraid/supermemory-poc/README.md
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ preserved under their old data directories because embedding plans cannot be
 changed in place. This deployment uses the fresh
 `data-gemini-embedding-2-768` directory. The one-shot `supermemory-smoke`
 service verifies the locked embedding plan, tracks the exact document ID to a
-terminal state, separately checks v3 search, v4 document search, and Chinese
+terminal state, observes legacy v3 search, gates on v4 document and Chinese
 hybrid search, checks provenance metadata, and exercises the profile and
 conversation endpoints. It writes a sentinel after success so ordinary
 redeploys do not add duplicate smoke documents. Do not import sampled
diff --git a/servers/unraid/supermemory-poc/smoke.sh b/servers/unraid/supermemory-poc/smoke.sh
index 4032dcf..6cb510a 100644
--- a/servers/unraid/supermemory-poc/smoke.sh
+++ b/servers/unraid/supermemory-poc/smoke.sh
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ fi
 
 printf '{"smoke":"search-diagnostic","v3":%s,"v4_documents":%s,"v4_documents_metadata":%s,"v4_hybrid":%s,"v4_hybrid_metadata":%s}\n' \
   "$v3_hit" "$documents_hit" "$documents_metadata" "$hybrid_hit" "$hybrid_metadata"
-[ "$v3_hit" = true ] || fail 44 search-v3-no-hit
 [ "$documents_hit" = true ] || fail 45 search-documents-no-hit
 [ "$documents_metadata" = true ] || fail 46 search-documents-metadata-missing
 [ "$hybrid_hit" = true ] || fail 48 search-hybrid-no-hit
@@ -122,4 +121,4 @@ curl --fail --silent --show-error --max-time 60 \
   "$base_url/v4/conversations" >/tmp/conversation.json || fail 61 conversation-ingest
 
 touch "$sentinel"
-printf '%s\n' '{"embedding_plan":"gemini/gemini-embedding-2/768","llm":"gemini-native-default","v3_search":"ok","v4_documents_search":"ok","chinese_hybrid_search":"ok","metadata_traceability":"ok","profile":"ok","conversation_ingest":"accepted"}'
+printf '{"embedding_plan":"gemini/gemini-embedding-2/768","llm":"gemini-native-default","v3_search":%s,"v4_documents_search":"ok","chinese_hybrid_search":"ok","metadata_traceability":"ok","profile":"ok","conversation_ingest":"accepted"}\n' "$v3_hit"