diff --git a/src/DotLLM.Models/Gguf/GgufReader.cs b/src/DotLLM.Models/Gguf/GgufReader.cs
index 39f80c66..f0a0990a 100644
--- a/src/DotLLM.Models/Gguf/GgufReader.cs
+++ b/src/DotLLM.Models/Gguf/GgufReader.cs
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ namespace DotLLM.Models.Gguf;
 
 /// <summary>
 /// Static binary parser for the GGUF file format. Pure functions: bytes in, structs out.
-/// Handles both GGUF v2 (uint32 counts) and v3 (uint64 counts).
+/// Supports GGUF v2 and v3, which are identical on the wire: tensor/metadata counts,
+/// string lengths and array lengths are all <c>uint64</c>. (The <c>uint32</c> form belongs to
+/// the obsolete v1, which the header validation rejects.)
 /// </summary>
 public static class GgufReader
 {
@@ -30,19 +32,9 @@ public static GgufHeader ReadHeader(BinaryReader reader)
             throw new InvalidDataException(
                 $"Unsupported GGUF version: {version}. Only versions 2 and 3 are supported.");
 
-        ulong tensorCount;
-        ulong metadataKvCount;
-
-        if (version == 2)
-        {
-            tensorCount = reader.ReadUInt32();
-            metadataKvCount = reader.ReadUInt32();
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            tensorCount = reader.ReadUInt64();
-            metadataKvCount = reader.ReadUInt64();
-        }
+        // GGUF v2 and v3 both store these counts as uint64 (the uint32 form was v1 only).
+        ulong tensorCount = reader.ReadUInt64();
+        ulong metadataKvCount = reader.ReadUInt64();
 
         return new GgufHeader(version, tensorCount, metadataKvCount);
     }
@@ -109,11 +101,12 @@ public static List<GgufTensorDescriptor> ReadTensorInfos(BinaryReader reader, Gg
     }
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Reads a GGUF length-prefixed UTF-8 string. V2 uses uint32 length, v3 uses uint64.
+    /// Reads a GGUF length-prefixed UTF-8 string. The length is uint64 in both supported
+    /// versions (v2 and v3); only the obsolete v1 used a uint32 length.
     /// </summary>
     internal static string ReadGgufString(BinaryReader reader, uint version)
     {
-        ulong length = version == 2 ? reader.ReadUInt32() : reader.ReadUInt64();
+        ulong length = reader.ReadUInt64();
 
         if (length == 0)
             return string.Empty;
@@ -149,7 +142,8 @@ private static object ReadMetadataValue(BinaryReader reader, uint version, GgufV
     private static object ReadArray(BinaryReader reader, uint version)
     {
         var elementType = (GgufValueType)reader.ReadUInt32();
-        ulong count = version == 2 ? reader.ReadUInt32() : reader.ReadUInt64();
+        // Array length is uint64 in both supported versions (v2 and v3); v1 used uint32.
+        ulong count = reader.ReadUInt64();
 
         if (count > int.MaxValue)
             throw new InvalidDataException($"GGUF array length {count} exceeds Int32.MaxValue.");
diff --git a/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufFileTests.cs b/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufFileTests.cs
index 1de928f7..82c4a57d 100644
--- a/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufFileTests.cs
+++ b/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufFileTests.cs
@@ -67,6 +67,38 @@ public void Open_WithTensors_ProvidesDataPointer()
         }
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public void Open_V2File_WithArrayMetadataAndTensors_Succeeds()
+    {
+        // Reproduces the real-world GGUF v2 failure (e.g. TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-GGUF): before the
+        // uint64 width fix, the reader mis-parsed v2 string/array lengths, producing garbage tensor
+        // offsets that tripped GgufFile.Open's "data extends beyond file boundary" guard (with an
+        // empty tensor name). A correctly parsed v2 file opens and exposes its tensors.
+        byte[] embd = new byte[8 * 16 * 4];
+        for (int i = 0; i < embd.Length; i++) embd[i] = (byte)((i % 255) + 1);
+
+        var data = new GgufTestData(version: 2)
+            .AddString("general.architecture", "llama")
+            .AddStringArray("tokenizer.ggml.tokens", ["<s>", "</s>", "hello", "world"])
+            .AddTensor("token_embd.weight", [8, 16], 0, embd)                 // F32
+            .AddTensor("output_norm.weight", [16], 0, new byte[16 * 4]);      // F32
+        string path = WriteTempGguf(data);
+
+        using var file = GgufFile.Open(path);
+
+        Assert.Equal(2u, file.Header.Version);
+        Assert.Equal(2ul, file.Header.TensorCount);
+        Assert.Equal("llama", file.Metadata.GetString("general.architecture"));
+        Assert.True(file.TensorsByName.ContainsKey("token_embd.weight"));
+        Assert.True(file.TensorsByName.ContainsKey("output_norm.weight"));
+        Assert.NotEqual(nint.Zero, file.DataBasePointer);
+        unsafe
+        {
+            byte* ptr = (byte*)file.DataBasePointer;
+            Assert.Equal(1, ptr[0]); // first byte of token_embd data
+        }
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public void Open_TensorsByName_LookupWorks()
     {
diff --git a/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufReaderTests.cs b/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufReaderTests.cs
index 03e83e7a..3584347b 100644
--- a/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufReaderTests.cs
+++ b/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufReaderTests.cs
@@ -193,6 +193,54 @@ public void ReadMetadata_V2_ScalarTypes()
         Assert.Equal(42u, metadata["count"].Value);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Regression for the GGUF v2 width bug: v2 stores counts, string lengths and array lengths
+    /// as <c>uint64</c> (identical to v3 — the <c>uint32</c> form was v1 only). The reader and the
+    /// in-memory test writer both previously treated v2 as uint32, so they agreed with each other
+    /// while disagreeing with the spec — and every real v2 file (e.g. TheBloke's Llama-2-13B-GGUF)
+    /// mis-parsed: a uint32 string length consumed 4 bytes where the file wrote 8, cascading through
+    /// the string-array metadata into garbage tensor names and offsets (the latter surfaced as a
+    /// bogus "data extends beyond file boundary" with an empty tensor name). A scalar-only v2 case
+    /// can't catch this — it needs a multi-element array followed by tensor infos so misalignment
+    /// compounds. This asserts a full v2 parse (header → array metadata → tensor infos) is exact.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void Reads_V2_FullFile_ArrayMetadataThenTensors_Exactly()
+    {
+        var data = new GgufTestData(version: 2)
+            .AddString("general.architecture", "llama")
+            .AddStringArray("tokenizer.ggml.tokens", ["<s>", "</s>", "hello", "world"])
+            .AddUInt32("llama.block_count", 2)
+            .AddTensor("token_embd.weight", [8, 16], 0, new byte[8 * 16 * 4])   // F32
+            .AddTensor("blk.0.attn_q.weight", [16, 16], 1, new byte[16 * 16 * 2]) // F16
+            .AddTensor("output_norm.weight", [16], 0, new byte[16 * 4]);          // F32
+        byte[] bytes = data.Build();
+
+        using var stream = new MemoryStream(bytes);
+        using var reader = new BinaryReader(stream);
+
+        var header = GgufReader.ReadHeader(reader);
+        Assert.Equal(2u, header.Version);
+        Assert.Equal(3ul, header.TensorCount);
+        Assert.Equal(3ul, header.MetadataKvCount);
+
+        var metadata = GgufReader.ReadMetadata(reader, header);
+        Assert.Equal("llama", metadata["general.architecture"].Value);
+        Assert.Equal(["<s>", "</s>", "hello", "world"],
+            (string[])metadata["tokenizer.ggml.tokens"].Value);
+        Assert.Equal(2u, metadata["llama.block_count"].Value);
+
+        var tensors = GgufReader.ReadTensorInfos(reader, header);
+        Assert.Equal(3, tensors.Count);
+        Assert.Equal("token_embd.weight", tensors[0].Name);
+        Assert.Equal("blk.0.attn_q.weight", tensors[1].Name);
+        Assert.Equal("output_norm.weight", tensors[2].Name);
+        // Offsets are sequential blobs (no alignment between them in the writer).
+        Assert.Equal(0ul, tensors[0].DataOffset);
+        Assert.Equal((ulong)(8 * 16 * 4), tensors[1].DataOffset);
+        Assert.Equal((ulong)(8 * 16 * 4 + 16 * 16 * 2), tensors[2].DataOffset);
+    }
+
     #endregion
 
     #region Tensor Infos
diff --git a/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufTestData.cs b/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufTestData.cs
index 06a6f636..f9847749 100644
--- a/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufTestData.cs
+++ b/tests/DotLLM.Tests.Unit/Models/Gguf/GgufTestData.cs
@@ -144,20 +144,11 @@ public byte[] Build()
         _stream.SetLength(0);
         _stream.Position = 0;
 
-        // Header
+        // Header. GGUF v2 and v3 both store counts as uint64 (only the obsolete v1 used uint32).
         _writer.Write(GgufReader.GgufMagic);
         _writer.Write(_version);
-
-        if (_version == 2)
-        {
-            _writer.Write((uint)_tensorWriters.Count);
-            _writer.Write((uint)_metadataWriters.Count);
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            _writer.Write((ulong)_tensorWriters.Count);
-            _writer.Write((ulong)_metadataWriters.Count);
-        }
+        _writer.Write((ulong)_tensorWriters.Count);
+        _writer.Write((ulong)_metadataWriters.Count);
 
         // Metadata
         foreach (var writeMetadata in _metadataWriters)
@@ -200,10 +191,8 @@ private void WriteGgufString(BinaryWriter writer, string value)
 
     private void WriteLength(BinaryWriter writer, ulong length)
     {
-        if (_version == 2)
-            writer.Write((uint)length);
-        else
-            writer.Write(length);
+        // String and array lengths are uint64 in both supported versions (v2 and v3); v1 used uint32.
+        writer.Write(length);
     }
 
     private static long AlignUp(long value, uint alignment)