diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c65e55ac..f5bc35cf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 ### Added
 
+- `providers.docling_serve.timeout` (default 300 seconds), forwarded to the docling-serve client's per-request timeout.
 - `evaluations run --filter/-f CLAUSE`: SQL `WHERE` clause over document columns, applied to the retrieval benchmark's searches and to every capability search during QA. Recorded as `document_filter` in experiment metadata.
 - `mtrag_clapnq` / `mtrag_clapnq_rewrite` / `mtrag_clapnq_live` / `mtrag_clapnq_live_uncompacted` evaluation datasets: multi-turn QA with gold-prefix and live-session conversation replay, live arms with and without `EvidenceCompactionCapability`, Recall@k/nDCG@k retrieval metrics, eligibility-aware citation scoring, refusal precision/recall, per-turn tool-traffic attributes, and `citation_status` / `turn_citation_status` eval attributes.
 - Raw chunk metadata is now exposed to search and citation results, through `SearchResult.chunk_meta` and `Citation.chunk_meta`. For context-expanded results, the metadata is that of the anchor chunk.
diff --git a/docs/remote-processing.md b/docs/remote-processing.md
index 73cefaf9..9c5b9783 100644
--- a/docs/remote-processing.md
+++ b/docs/remote-processing.md
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ providers:
   docling_serve:
     base_url: http://localhost:5001
     api_key: ""  # Optional API key for authentication
+    timeout: 300  # Per-request timeout in seconds
 ```
 
 For converter / chunker config options (chunking strategy, tokenizer,
diff --git a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/config/models.py b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/config/models.py
index 2fa58a8e..b122ae8d 100644
--- a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/config/models.py
+++ b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/config/models.py
@@ -295,6 +295,11 @@ class DoclingServeConfig(BaseModel):
         description="Max attempts per request across the fleet before giving up; "
         "each retry fails over to another instance.",
     )
+    timeout: float = Field(
+        default=300,
+        gt=0,
+        description="Per-request timeout in seconds for submit, poll and result calls.",
+    )
     circuit_breaker: CircuitBreakerConfig = Field(
         default_factory=lambda: CircuitBreakerConfig(
             failure_threshold=3, cooldown_s=30.0
diff --git a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/providers/docling_serve.py b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/providers/docling_serve.py
index a14cc0fe..23abd5d9 100644
--- a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/providers/docling_serve.py
+++ b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/providers/docling_serve.py
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ class DoclingServeClient:
         return cls(
             base_urls=config.base_urls,
             api_key=config.api_key,
+            timeout=config.timeout,
             circuit_breaker=config.circuit_breaker,
             max_attempts=config.max_attempts,
         )
diff --git a/tests/test_config.py b/tests/test_config.py
index 3bcdef6d..19383411 100644
--- a/tests/test_config.py
+++ b/tests/test_config.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from pathlib import Path
+
 import pytest
 import yaml
 
@@ -557,3 +559,21 @@ def test_get_config_initialises_lazily_then_reuses(monkeypatch):
     first = config_module.get_config()
     assert isinstance(first, AppConfig)
     assert config_module.get_config() is first
+
+
+# Every YAML config shipped in the repo has to load. These are what users copy.
+_EXAMPLE_CONFIGS = sorted(
+    (Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent).glob("**/*.yaml.example")
+)
+
+
+def test_example_configs_are_present():
+    """Guard against the glob silently matching nothing."""
+    assert _EXAMPLE_CONFIGS
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "path", _EXAMPLE_CONFIGS, ids=lambda p: p.parent.name + "/" + p.name
+)
+def test_example_config_validates(path: Path):
+    AppConfig.model_validate(yaml.safe_load(path.read_text()) or {})
diff --git a/tests/test_docling_serve_client.py b/tests/test_docling_serve_client.py
index 175ed53e..655f9f6c 100644
--- a/tests/test_docling_serve_client.py
+++ b/tests/test_docling_serve_client.py
@@ -474,11 +474,13 @@ def test_from_config_wires_retry_and_breaker():
     ds = config.providers.docling_serve
     ds.base_url = "http://cfg-n:5001"
     ds.max_attempts = 7
+    ds.timeout = 42.0
     ds.circuit_breaker = CircuitBreakerConfig(failure_threshold=9, cooldown_s=90.0)
 
     for component in (DoclingServeConverter(config), DoclingServeChunker(config)):
         client = component.client
         assert client._max_attempts == 7
+        assert client.timeout == 42.0
         assert client._breaker_config.failure_threshold == 9
         assert client._breaker_config.cooldown_s == 90.0