diff --git a/convert-starcoder-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-starcoder-hf-to-gguf.py
index 6cc384058..9f6e38d40 100755
--- a/convert-starcoder-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-starcoder-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ gguf_writer.add_max_position_embeddings(hparams["n_positions"])
 gguf_writer.add_feed_forward_length(4 * hparams["n_embd"])
 gguf_writer.add_block_count(block_count)
 gguf_writer.add_head_count(hparams["n_head"])
+gguf_writer.add_head_count_kv(1)
 gguf_writer.add_layer_norm_eps(hparams["layer_norm_epsilon"])
 gguf_writer.add_file_type(ftype)