diff --git a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/chunkers/docling_serve.py b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/chunkers/docling_serve.py
index 5792ddea..81d1758e 100644
--- a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/chunkers/docling_serve.py
+++ b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/chunkers/docling_serve.py
@@ -114,6 +114,14 @@ class DoclingServeChunker(DocumentChunker):
             name="document",
         )
 
+        # Task-level polling status can be "success" while individual documents
+        # report "failure" (e.g. schema version mismatch), returning 0 chunks silently.
+        documents = result.get("documents", [])
+        for doc_result in documents:
+            if doc_result.get("status") not in ("success", "partial_success", None):
+                errors = doc_result.get("errors", [])
+                raise ValueError(f"Chunking failed: {errors}")
+
         return result.get("chunks", [])
 
     async def chunk(self, document: "DoclingDocument") -> list[Chunk]:
diff --git a/tests/test_chunker.py b/tests/test_chunker.py
index 26522783..4dfc42b3 100644
--- a/tests/test_chunker.py
+++ b/tests/test_chunker.py
@@ -464,6 +464,62 @@ class TestDoclingServeChunker:
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="Authentication failed"):
             await chunker.chunk(doc)
 
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    @patch("haiku.rag.providers.docling_serve.httpx.AsyncClient")
+    async def test_chunk_document_failure_status(self, mock_client_class, chunker):
+        """Test that document-level failure status raises ValueError."""
+        result_data = {
+            "chunks": [],
+            "documents": [
+                {
+                    "kind": "ExportResult",
+                    "status": "failure",
+                    "errors": ["Schema version mismatch"],
+                }
+            ],
+        }
+        submit_resp, poll_resp, result_resp = create_async_workflow_mocks(result_data)
+
+        mock_client = AsyncMock()
+        mock_client.post = AsyncMock(return_value=submit_resp)
+        mock_client.get = AsyncMock(side_effect=[poll_resp, result_resp])
+        mock_client_class.return_value.__aenter__.return_value = mock_client
+
+        converter = get_converter(Config)
+        doc = await converter.convert_text("# Test", name="test.md")
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="Chunking failed"):
+            await chunker.chunk(doc)
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    @patch("haiku.rag.providers.docling_serve.httpx.AsyncClient")
+    async def test_chunk_document_success_empty_chunks(
+        self, mock_client_class, chunker
+    ):
+        """Test that successful status with empty chunks returns empty list."""
+        result_data = {
+            "chunks": [],
+            "documents": [
+                {
+                    "kind": "ExportResult",
+                    "status": "success",
+                    "errors": [],
+                }
+            ],
+        }
+        submit_resp, poll_resp, result_resp = create_async_workflow_mocks(result_data)
+
+        mock_client = AsyncMock()
+        mock_client.post = AsyncMock(return_value=submit_resp)
+        mock_client.get = AsyncMock(side_effect=[poll_resp, result_resp])
+        mock_client_class.return_value.__aenter__.return_value = mock_client
+
+        converter = get_converter(Config)
+        doc = await converter.convert_text("# Test", name="test.md")
+
+        chunks = await chunker.chunk(doc)
+        assert chunks == []
+
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
     @patch("haiku.rag.providers.docling_serve.httpx.AsyncClient")
     async def test_chunk_metadata_extraction(self, mock_client_class, chunker):