diff --git a/apps/web/core/components/navigation/top-nav-power-k.tsx b/apps/web/core/components/navigation/top-nav-power-k.tsx
index 22825d4b7e3..af3e1d2651c 100644
--- a/apps/web/core/components/navigation/top-nav-power-k.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/core/components/navigation/top-nav-power-k.tsx
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import { cn } from "@plane/utils";
 // power-k
 import type { TPowerKCommandConfig, TPowerKContext } from "@/components/power-k/core/types";
 import { ProjectsAppPowerKCommandsList } from "@/components/power-k/ui/modal/commands-list";
+import { powerKCommandFilter } from "@/components/power-k/ui/modal/filter";
 import { PowerKModalFooter } from "@/components/power-k/ui/modal/footer";
 import { useIssueDetail } from "@/hooks/store/use-issue-detail";
 import { usePowerK } from "@/hooks/store/use-power-k";
@@ -256,11 +257,7 @@ export const TopNavPowerK = observer(() => {
       >
         {isOpen && (
           <Command
-            filter={(i18nValue: string, search: string) => {
-              if (i18nValue === "no-results") return 1;
-              if (i18nValue.toLowerCase().includes(search.toLowerCase())) return 1;
-              return 0;
-            }}
+            filter={powerKCommandFilter}
             shouldFilter={searchTerm.length > 0}
             className="flex h-full w-full flex-col"
           >
diff --git a/apps/web/core/components/power-k/ui/modal/filter.ts b/apps/web/core/components/power-k/ui/modal/filter.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..160643df6fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/web/core/components/power-k/ui/modal/filter.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2023-present Plane Software, Inc. and contributors
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+ * See the LICENSE file for details.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Prefix marking a `Command.Item` whose match was decided by the search API
+ * rather than by the text cmdk can see.
+ */
+export const POWER_K_SERVER_RESULT_PREFIX = "server-result:";
+
+/**
+ * Filter for the Power-K palette.
+ *
+ * Static commands still match on their visible label. Server-driven search
+ * results are passed through untouched: the API matched them against fields
+ * the palette never renders — a work item's description, for one — so
+ * re-filtering here on the visible title would silently discard exactly the
+ * results the search was meant to surface. It would also drop multi-word
+ * matches whose words are not adjacent in the title, since this is a
+ * contiguous substring test.
+ */
+export const powerKCommandFilter = (value: string, search: string): number => {
+  if (value === "no-results") return 1;
+  if (value.startsWith(POWER_K_SERVER_RESULT_PREFIX)) return 1;
+  return value.toLowerCase().includes(search.toLowerCase()) ? 1 : 0;
+};
diff --git a/apps/web/core/components/power-k/ui/modal/search-results.tsx b/apps/web/core/components/power-k/ui/modal/search-results.tsx
index eaa5eb9b876..c6e51bed8d4 100644
--- a/apps/web/core/components/power-k/ui/modal/search-results.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/core/components/power-k/ui/modal/search-results.tsx
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import type { IWorkspaceSearchResults } from "@plane/types";
 import { useAppRouter } from "@/hooks/use-app-router";
 // helpers
 import { PowerKModalCommandItem } from "./command-item";
+import { POWER_K_SERVER_RESULT_PREFIX } from "./filter";
 import { POWER_K_SEARCH_RESULTS_GROUPS_MAP } from "./search-results-map";
 
 type Props = {
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ export const PowerKModalSearchResults = observer(function PowerKModalSearchResul
         return (
           <Command.Group key={key} heading={currentSection.title}>
             {section.map((item) => {
-              let value = `${key}-${item?.id}-${item.name}`;
+              let value = `${POWER_K_SERVER_RESULT_PREFIX}${key}-${item?.id}-${item.name}`;
 
               if ("project__identifier" in item) {
                 value = `${value}-${item.project__identifier}`;
diff --git a/apps/web/core/components/power-k/ui/modal/wrapper.tsx b/apps/web/core/components/power-k/ui/modal/wrapper.tsx
index 0c2a0c9b15c..8250cf0fa05 100644
--- a/apps/web/core/components/power-k/ui/modal/wrapper.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/core/components/power-k/ui/modal/wrapper.tsx
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import { usePowerK } from "@/hooks/store/use-power-k";
 // local imports
 import type { TPowerKCommandConfig, TPowerKContext } from "../../core/types";
 import type { TPowerKCommandsListProps } from "./commands-list";
+import { powerKCommandFilter } from "./filter";
 import { PowerKModalFooter } from "./footer";
 import { PowerKModalHeader } from "./header";
 
@@ -145,11 +146,7 @@ export const ProjectsAppPowerKModalWrapper = observer(function ProjectsAppPowerK
             >
               <Dialog.Panel className="divide-opacity-10 relative flex w-full max-w-2xl transform flex-col items-center justify-center divide-y divide-subtle-1 rounded-lg bg-surface-1 shadow-raised-200 transition-all">
                 <Command
-                  filter={(i18nValue: string, search: string) => {
-                    if (i18nValue === "no-results") return 1;
-                    if (i18nValue.toLowerCase().includes(search.toLowerCase())) return 1;
-                    return 0;
-                  }}
+                  filter={powerKCommandFilter}
                   shouldFilter={searchTerm.length > 0}
                   onKeyDown={handleKeyDown}
                   className="w-full"