diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/browser-pane/assemble-chrome/browser-address-bar-suggestions.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/browser-pane/assemble-chrome/browser-address-bar-suggestions.test.ts
index 3924a84aaec..40d8314a7a2 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/browser-pane/assemble-chrome/browser-address-bar-suggestions.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/browser-pane/assemble-chrome/browser-address-bar-suggestions.test.ts
@@ -338,4 +338,22 @@ describe('workspace document suggestions', () => {
     })
     expect(byPath.some((row) => row.docLocation)).toBe(true)
   })
+
+  it('ranks a path-prefix document above a heavily visited url-tail history match', () => {
+    const rows = buildBrowserAddressBarSuggestions({
+      value: '/repo/docs',
+      browserUrlHistory: [
+        {
+          url: 'https://example.com/repo/docs/index.html',
+          normalizedUrl: 'https://example.com/repo/docs/index.html',
+          title: 'Docs Index',
+          lastVisitedAt: Date.now(),
+          visitCount: 500
+        }
+      ],
+      workspaceDocHistory: [DOC_ENTRY]
+    })
+
+    expect(rows.find((row) => !row.isSearch)?.docLocation).toEqual(DOC_ENTRY.docLocation)
+  })
 })
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/browser-history-match.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/lib/browser-history-match.test.ts
index a109f8a7a20..7235edc6c40 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/lib/browser-history-match.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/browser-history-match.test.ts
@@ -138,6 +138,29 @@ describe('browser history match', () => {
     expect(match([broken], 'brok')).toEqual([{ tier: 'title', url: 'not a url at all' }])
   })
 
+  it('promotes a path prefix to the top tier when the entry has no host', () => {
+    const doc = entry({ url: '/repo/docs/report.html', title: 'Quarterly Report' })
+
+    expect(match([doc], '/repo/docs')).toEqual([
+      { tier: 'host-prefix', url: '/repo/docs/report.html' }
+    ])
+    expect(match([doc], 'docs/report')).toEqual([
+      { tier: 'url-tail', url: '/repo/docs/report.html' }
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it('clamps the recency bonus so a future lastVisitedAt cannot outrank a fresh visit', () => {
+    const rows = match(
+      [
+        entry({ url: 'https://acme.dev/future', visitCount: 1, lastVisitedAt: NOW + 500 * HOUR }),
+        entry({ url: 'https://acme.dev/now', visitCount: 2, lastVisitedAt: NOW })
+      ],
+      'acme'
+    )
+
+    expect(rows.map((row) => row.url)).toEqual(['https://acme.dev/now', 'https://acme.dev/future'])
+  })
+
   it('agrees with a naive reference scan on which entries match', () => {
     const corpus = Array.from({ length: 300 }, (_, index) =>
       entry({
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/browser-history-match.ts b/src/renderer/src/lib/browser-history-match.ts
index e1ad857c6c9..9c7fb443d2e 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/lib/browser-history-match.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/browser-history-match.ts
@@ -66,7 +66,10 @@ function matchTier(
   prepared: PreparedBrowserHistoryEntry,
   lowerQuery: string
 ): BrowserHistoryMatchTier | null {
-  if (prepared.lowerHost.startsWith(lowerQuery)) {
+  // A workspace-doc entry's url is a filesystem path, so it has no host: a path
+  // prefix is as deliberate as a host prefix and earns the same top tier.
+  const prefixTarget = prepared.lowerHost === '' ? prepared.lowerUrl : prepared.lowerHost
+  if (prefixTarget.startsWith(lowerQuery)) {
     return 'host-prefix'
   }
   if (prepared.lowerHost.includes(lowerQuery)) {
@@ -106,7 +109,10 @@ export function matchBrowserHistory({
     matches.push({
       entry: candidate.entry,
       tier,
-      score: candidate.frecencyBase + Math.max(0, RECENCY_BONUS_HOURS - ageHours)
+      // Clamped both ends: a future lastVisitedAt must not buy more than a fresh visit.
+      score:
+        candidate.frecencyBase +
+        Math.min(RECENCY_BONUS_HOURS, Math.max(0, RECENCY_BONUS_HOURS - ageHours))
     })
   }
   if (matches.length === 0) {