diff --git a/src/scoring/preview.ts b/src/scoring/preview.ts
index 08db644604..77f2ec15c3 100644
--- a/src/scoring/preview.ts
+++ b/src/scoring/preview.ts
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ function computeScoreCore(
   const totalTokenScore =
     input.totalTokenScore === undefined ? nonNegative(derivedTotalTokenScore) : applyNonCodeCapToTotal(input.totalTokenScore, input, cappedNonCodeTokenScore);
   const sourceLines = Math.max(1, nonNegative(input.sourceLines ?? sourceTokenScore));
-  const fixedBaseScore = input.fixedBaseScore ?? config?.fixedBaseScore ?? undefined;
+  const fixedBaseScore = clampFixedBaseScore(input.fixedBaseScore ?? config?.fixedBaseScore);
   const rawDensity = sourceTokenScore / sourceLines;
   // Density branch (#812): upstream is on the saturation model, but `current_density_model` is still a
   // supported `activeModel` (types.ts union, the public OpenAPI schema, the DB parser, ~20 test fixtures, and
@@ -1261,7 +1261,11 @@ export function calculateTimeDecay(prAgeHours: number, constants: Record<string,
 }
 
 function saturationScore(sourceTokenScore: number, totalTokenScore: number, constants: Record<string, number>): number {
-  const scale = Math.max(constant(constants, "SRC_TOK_SATURATION_SCALE"), 1);
+  // SRC_TOK_SATURATION_SCALE is per-repo overridable only within [10, 500] upstream; a snapshot value outside
+  // that band (a bad override, a parse glitch) would otherwise distort the saturation curve — at scale 1 the
+  // component saturates almost immediately, well above the documented floor. Clamp to the documented range so
+  // the curve stays within upstream bounds (the prior Math.max(...,1) only guarded the divide-by-zero edge).
+  const scale = clampSaturationScale(constant(constants, "SRC_TOK_SATURATION_SCALE"));
   return (
     constant(constants, "MERGED_PR_BASE_SCORE") * (1 - Math.exp(-sourceTokenScore / scale)) +
     saturationContributionBonus(totalTokenScore, constants)
@@ -1291,6 +1295,24 @@ function clamp(value: number, min: number, max: number): number {
   return Math.min(max, Math.max(min, value));
 }
 
+// Bounds documented by upstream for the two repo-configurable scoring inputs the preview consumes directly.
+const FIXED_BASE_SCORE_MIN = 0;
+const FIXED_BASE_SCORE_MAX = 100;
+const SRC_TOK_SATURATION_SCALE_MIN = 10;
+const SRC_TOK_SATURATION_SCALE_MAX = 500;
+
+// A repo's fixed_base_score override forces base_score to a constant within [0, 100]. The value reaches the
+// preview unbounded above — the API schema only enforces `.min(0)` and registry normalization accepts any
+// finite number — so a misconfigured 150 would otherwise mint a base score above the model ceiling. Clamp to
+// the documented range; a non-finite/absent value falls through to the token-derived base score.
+function clampFixedBaseScore(value: number | null | undefined): number | undefined {
+  return Number.isFinite(value) ? clamp(value as number, FIXED_BASE_SCORE_MIN, FIXED_BASE_SCORE_MAX) : undefined;
+}
+
+function clampSaturationScale(value: number): number {
+  return clamp(value, SRC_TOK_SATURATION_SCALE_MIN, SRC_TOK_SATURATION_SCALE_MAX);
+}
+
 function roundScore(value: number): number {
   return Math.round(value * 10000) / 10000;
 }
diff --git a/test/unit/scoring.test.ts b/test/unit/scoring.test.ts
index 857054736e..0f135176cc 100644
--- a/test/unit/scoring.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/scoring.test.ts
@@ -1848,4 +1848,45 @@ NOVELTY_BONUS_SCALAR = 3
       ).toEqual([]);
     });
   });
+
+  describe("documented scoring config bounds (#1744)", () => {
+    const saturationBase = (scale: number): number =>
+      buildScorePreview({
+        repo,
+        snapshot: { ...snapshot, activeModel: "pending_saturation_model" as const, constants: { ...snapshot.constants, SRC_TOK_SATURATION_SCALE: scale } },
+        input: { repoFullName: repo.fullName, sourceTokenScore: 30, totalTokenScore: 30, sourceLines: 30, openPrCount: 0, credibility: 1 },
+      }).scoreEstimate.baseScore;
+
+    it("clamps a fixed_base_score above the documented ceiling to 100", () => {
+      const preview = buildScorePreview({
+        repo: { ...repo, registryConfig: { ...repo.registryConfig!, fixedBaseScore: 150 } },
+        snapshot,
+        input: { repoFullName: repo.fullName, sourceTokenScore: 100, totalTokenScore: 200, sourceLines: 10, openPrCount: 0, credibility: 1 },
+      });
+      // Before the fix this previewed baseScore = 150 (API schema is `.min(0)` only; registry normalization
+      // accepts any finite value), minting a base component above the documented [0, 100] ceiling.
+      expect(preview.scoreEstimate.baseScore).toBe(100);
+    });
+
+    it("clamps a negative fixed_base_score (via the API input path) to 0", () => {
+      const preview = buildScorePreview({
+        repo,
+        snapshot,
+        input: { repoFullName: repo.fullName, fixedBaseScore: -5, sourceTokenScore: 100, totalTokenScore: 200, sourceLines: 10, openPrCount: 0, credibility: 1 },
+      });
+      expect(preview.scoreEstimate.baseScore).toBe(0);
+    });
+
+    it("clamps SRC_TOK_SATURATION_SCALE below the documented floor (10) before the saturation curve", () => {
+      // A scale of 3 is below the documented [10, 500] band, so it must score identically to the clamped
+      // floor of 10 — and differently from the in-band default 58 (the prior Math.max(...,1) left 3 in play).
+      expect(saturationBase(3)).toBe(saturationBase(10));
+      expect(saturationBase(3)).not.toBe(saturationBase(58));
+    });
+
+    it("clamps SRC_TOK_SATURATION_SCALE above the documented ceiling (500)", () => {
+      expect(saturationBase(1000)).toBe(saturationBase(500));
+      expect(saturationBase(1000)).not.toBe(saturationBase(400));
+    });
+  });
 });