diff --git a/extensions/memory-core/src/memory/qmd-manager.test.ts b/extensions/memory-core/src/memory/qmd-manager.test.ts
index 9f271afed3c1..b28c98cca2b0 100644
--- a/extensions/memory-core/src/memory/qmd-manager.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/memory-core/src/memory/qmd-manager.test.ts
@@ -4070,6 +4070,46 @@ describe("QmdMemoryManager", () => {
     await manager.close();
   });
 
+  it("disables the LLM reranker (rerank:false) for vsearch mode via mcporter", async () => {
+    cfg = {
+      ...cfg,
+      memory: {
+        backend: "qmd",
+        qmd: {
+          includeDefaultMemory: false,
+          searchMode: "vsearch",
+          update: { interval: "0s", debounceMs: 60_000, onBoot: false },
+          paths: [{ path: workspaceDir, pattern: "**/*.md", name: "workspace" }],
+          mcporter: { enabled: true, serverName: "qmd", startDaemon: false },
+        },
+      },
+    } as OpenClawConfig;
+
+    let captured: Record<string, unknown> | null = null;
+    spawnMock.mockImplementation((cmd: string, args: string[]) => {
+      const child = createMockChild({ autoClose: false });
+      if (isMcporterCommand(cmd) && args[0] === "call") {
+        captured = JSON.parse(args[args.indexOf("--args") + 1]);
+        emitAndClose(child, "stdout", JSON.stringify({ results: [] }));
+        return child;
+      }
+      emitAndClose(child, "stdout", "[]");
+      return child;
+    });
+
+    const { manager } = await createManager();
+    await manager.search("hello", { sessionKey: "agent:main:slack:dm:u123" });
+    await manager.close();
+
+    expect(captured).not.toBeNull();
+    const sentArgs = captured as unknown as Record<string, unknown>;
+    // vsearch is a vector-only mode (see buildV2Searches) — it must NOT trigger
+    // QMD's LLM reranker, which the "query" tool enables by default.
+    expect(sentArgs.rerank).toBe(false);
+    const searchTypes = (sentArgs.searches as Array<{ type?: unknown }>).map((s) => s.type);
+    expect(searchTypes).toEqual(["vec"]);
+  });
+
   it("keeps hyphenated tokens in lexical QMD searches while normalizing semantic searches", async () => {
     cfg = {
       ...cfg,
diff --git a/extensions/memory-core/src/memory/qmd-manager.ts b/extensions/memory-core/src/memory/qmd-manager.ts
index dbc9eaefa5d1..e90dec55cec6 100644
--- a/extensions/memory-core/src/memory/qmd-manager.ts
+++ b/extensions/memory-core/src/memory/qmd-manager.ts
@@ -2638,6 +2638,13 @@ export class QmdMemoryManager implements MemorySearchManager {
           // its own reranking pipeline and does not accept a minScore parameter.
           searches: this.buildV2Searches(params.query, params.searchCommand),
           limit: params.limit,
+          // "search"/"vsearch" are lexical/vector-only modes (see buildV2Searches):
+          // they must not trigger the LLM reranker. QMD's "query" tool defaults
+          // rerank:true, so disable it explicitly for those modes; full "query"
+          // mode keeps reranking.
+          ...(params.searchCommand === "search" || params.searchCommand === "vsearch"
+            ? { rerank: false }
+            : {}),
         }
       : {
           // QMD 1.x tools accept a flat query string.