diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-calendar-day-upper-bound.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-calendar-day-upper-bound.test.ts
index 9ddc23c0c9..82c2673419 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-calendar-day-upper-bound.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-calendar-day-upper-bound.test.ts
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ describe('bare-day $lte on Field.datetime — the #3777 repro', () => {
       await driver.create(
         'task',
         { id, title: id, created_at: new Date(at), created_on: at.slice(0, 10) },
-        { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+        { bypassTenantAudit: true },
       );
     }
   });
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-limit-zero-presence.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-limit-zero-presence.test.ts
index 8021c4c833..2a50df931a 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-limit-zero-presence.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-limit-zero-presence.test.ts
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
 
 import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest';
 import knexLib from 'knex';
+import type { DriverOptions } from '@objectstack/spec/data';
 import { SqlDriver } from './index.js';
 
 const TABLE = 'os6577_zero_page';
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ function paginationTail(sql: string): string {
   return m ? m[0].toLowerCase() : '';
 }
 
-const READ = { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any;
+const READ: DriverOptions = { bypassTenantAudit: true };
 
 describe('driver-sql — `limit: 0` returns no records on every door (#6577)', () => {
   let driver: InspectableSqlDriver;
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-runtime-token-default.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-runtime-token-default.test.ts
index 00f296d698..525349551a 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-runtime-token-default.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-runtime-token-default.test.ts
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ describe('SqlDriver — defaultValue runtime tokens never become a column DEFAUL
 
     // A system/anonymous write: exactly the seed-replay shape that produced the
     // two dangling `sys_user:current_user` references #4551's audit reported.
-    await driver.create('field_zoo', { id: 'z1', title: 'specimen' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+    await driver.create('field_zoo', { id: 'z1', title: 'specimen' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
 
     const row = await knexInstance('field_zoo').where('id', 'z1').first();
     expect(row.f_owner).toBeNull();
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ describe('SqlDriver — defaultValue runtime tokens never become a column DEFAUL
   it('an explicitly supplied user id is still stored (the column is a normal lookup)', async () => {
     const driver = makeDriver();
     await driver.initObjects(fieldZoo as any);
-    await driver.create('field_zoo', { id: 'z2', title: 't', f_owner: 'usr_42' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+    await driver.create('field_zoo', { id: 'z2', title: 't', f_owner: 'usr_42' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
     const row = await knexInstance('field_zoo').where('id', 'z2').first();
     expect(row.f_owner).toBe('usr_42');
   });
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ describe('SqlDriver — defaultValue runtime tokens never become a column DEFAUL
   it("REGRESSION: 'NOW()' still gets its driver-native default and stores a canonical instant", async () => {
     const driver = makeDriver();
     await driver.initObjects(fieldZoo as any);
-    await driver.create('field_zoo', { id: 'z3', title: 't' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+    await driver.create('field_zoo', { id: 'z3', title: 't' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
     const row = await knexInstance('field_zoo').where('id', 'z3').first();
     expect(row.f_seen_at).toMatch(ISO_Z);
     expect(String(row.f_seen_at)).not.toContain('NOW()');
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ describe('SqlDriver — defaultValue runtime tokens never become a column DEFAUL
     expect(info.f_owner.defaultValue ?? null).toBeNull();
     expect(await driver.detectManagedDrift(fieldZoo as any)).toEqual([]);
 
-    await driver.create('field_zoo', { id: 'after', title: 'C' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+    await driver.create('field_zoo', { id: 'after', title: 'C' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
     const row = await knexInstance('field_zoo').where('id', 'after').first();
     expect(row.f_owner).toBeNull();
   });
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ describe('SqlDriver — defaultValue runtime tokens never become a column DEFAUL
     expect(String(info.f_seen_at.defaultValue ?? '')).toContain('strftime');
     expect(String(info.f_status.defaultValue ?? '')).toContain('open');
 
-    await driver.create('field_zoo', { id: 'post', title: 'D' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+    await driver.create('field_zoo', { id: 'post', title: 'D' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
     const row = await knexInstance('field_zoo').where('id', 'post').first();
     expect(row.f_seen_at).toMatch(ISO_Z);
     expect(row.f_status).toBe('open');
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-temporal-conformance.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-temporal-conformance.test.ts
index 8367916536..a7b7ce9072 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-temporal-conformance.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-temporal-conformance.test.ts
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ function declareDatetimeSweep(cell: DialectCell): void {
             on: r.on,
             why: r.why,
           },
-          { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+          { bypassTenantAudit: true },
         );
       }
     });
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ function declareTimeSweep(cell: DialectCell): void {
             at: r.writerForm === 'native' ? new Date(`1970-01-01T${r.at}Z`) : r.at,
             why: r.why,
           },
-          { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+          { bypassTenantAudit: true },
         );
       }
     });
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-tenant-audit-posture.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-tenant-audit-posture.test.ts
index f65260d8e1..14858081eb 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-tenant-audit-posture.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-tenant-audit-posture.test.ts
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ describe('#5262 — tenant-audit fires on a posture-only walled deployment', ()
     await driver.create(
       'account',
       { id: 'x1', organization_id: 'org_a', name: 'X1' },
-      { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+      { bypassTenantAudit: true },
     );
     expect(tenantAuditWarned()).toBe(false);
   });
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-tenant-scope.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-tenant-scope.test.ts
index c6cfb4ca44..7b999fdd9b 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-tenant-scope.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-tenant-scope.test.ts
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ describe('SqlDriver tenant scope (organization_id)', () => {
       await driver.create(
         'account',
         { id: 'x1', organization_id: 'org_a', name: 'X1' },
-        { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+        { bypassTenantAudit: true },
       );
       expect(warnSpy).toHaveLength(0);
     });
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-aggregation-conformance.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-aggregation-conformance.test.ts
index 180bfcf017..61a5d4fef8 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-aggregation-conformance.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-aggregation-conformance.test.ts
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ describe('[#6409] driver-sqlite-wasm — aggregate vocabulary conformance', () =
       },
     ]);
     for (const row of AGGREGATION_ROWS) {
-      await driver.create(OBJECT, { ...row }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+      await driver.create(OBJECT, { ...row }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
     }
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-driver-calendar-day-upper-bound.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-driver-calendar-day-upper-bound.test.ts
index 460e4bbddc..537c9918be 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-driver-calendar-day-upper-bound.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-driver-calendar-day-upper-bound.test.ts
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ describe('SqliteWasmDriver — bare-day $lte covers the whole day (#3777)', () =
       await driver.create(
         'task',
         { id, title: id, created_at: new Date(at) },
-        { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+        { bypassTenantAudit: true },
       );
     }
   });
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-driver-tenant-scope.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-driver-tenant-scope.test.ts
index adee7049d4..0988e01b66 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-driver-tenant-scope.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-driver-tenant-scope.test.ts
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ describe('SqliteWasmDriver tenant scope (organization_id)', () => {
         await driver.create(
           'account',
           { id: 'x1', organization_id: 'org_a', name: 'X1' },
-          { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+          { bypassTenantAudit: true },
         );
         expect(warnSpy).toHaveLength(0);
       } finally {
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-empty-field-constraint.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-empty-field-constraint.test.ts
index b4fddd0ddd..03aaeff5e4 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-empty-field-constraint.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-empty-field-constraint.test.ts
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ describe('[#5240] driver-sqlite-wasm inherits the zero-operator field-constraint
     await driver.initObjects([
       { name: 'deal', fields: { stage: { type: 'string' }, owner: { type: 'string' } } },
     ]);
-    await driver.create('deal', { id: '1', stage: 'won', owner: 'u1' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
-    await driver.create('deal', { id: '2', stage: 'lost', owner: 'u2' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+    await driver.create('deal', { id: '1', stage: 'won', owner: 'u1' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
+    await driver.create('deal', { id: '2', stage: 'lost', owner: 'u2' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
   });
 
   afterAll(async () => {
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ describe('[#5240] driver-sqlite-wasm inherits the zero-operator field-constraint
     const rows = await driver.find(
       'deal',
       { object: 'deal', fields: ['id'], where } as any,
-      { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+      { bypassTenantAudit: true },
     );
     return (rows as any[]).map((r) => String(r.id)).sort();
   };
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-filter-logic-conformance.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-filter-logic-conformance.test.ts
index 55b1040195..a2640fe34b 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-filter-logic-conformance.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-filter-logic-conformance.test.ts
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ describe('driver-sqlite-wasm — filter logic conformance', () => {
       },
     ]);
     for (const row of FILTER_LOGIC_ROWS) {
-      await driver.create('conformance', { ...row }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+      await driver.create('conformance', { ...row }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
     }
   });
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ describe('driver-sqlite-wasm — filter logic conformance', () => {
       const rows = await driver.find(
         'conformance',
         { object: 'conformance', where: c.filter } as any,
-        { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+        { bypassTenantAudit: true },
       );
       const got = (rows as any[])
         .map((r) => String(r.id))
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ describe('driver-sqlite-wasm — filter logic conformance', () => {
    * failed cannot read as a case that correctly excluded everything.
    */
   it('the fixture really is all four rows', async () => {
-    const rows = await driver.find('conformance', {} as any, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+    const rows = await driver.find('conformance', {} as any, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
     expect((rows as any[]).map((r) => String(r.id)).sort()).toEqual(['1', '2', '3', '4']);
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-out-of-contract-filter-input.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-out-of-contract-filter-input.test.ts
index 0d58feb9e4..40d4c9c26c 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-out-of-contract-filter-input.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-out-of-contract-filter-input.test.ts
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ describe('[#5347/#5348] driver-sqlite-wasm inherits the out-of-contract filter r
     await driver.initObjects([
       { name: 'deal', fields: { stage: { type: 'string' }, score: { type: 'number' } } },
     ]);
-    await driver.create('deal', { id: '1', stage: 'won', score: 10 }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
-    await driver.create('deal', { id: '2', stage: null, score: 20 }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+    await driver.create('deal', { id: '1', stage: 'won', score: 10 }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
+    await driver.create('deal', { id: '2', stage: null, score: 20 }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
   });
 
   afterAll(async () => {
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ describe('[#5347/#5348] driver-sqlite-wasm inherits the out-of-contract filter r
     const rows = await driver.find(
       'deal',
       { object: 'deal', fields: ['id'], where } as any,
-      { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+      { bypassTenantAudit: true },
     );
     return (rows as any[]).map((r) => String(r.id)).sort();
   };
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-pagination-conformance.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-pagination-conformance.test.ts
index e436f1a2dd..8b8ebeb0b1 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-pagination-conformance.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-pagination-conformance.test.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest';
 import {
+  type DriverOptions,
   PAGINATION_ALL_IDS,
   PAGINATION_CASES,
   PAGINATION_ROWS,
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ import {
 import { SqliteWasmDriver } from './index.js';
 
 /** Shared read options — a named const so no call site casts its own (#4674). */
-const READ_OPTIONS = { bypassTenantAudit: true } as unknown as Parameters<SqliteWasmDriver['find']>[2];
+const READ_OPTIONS: DriverOptions = { bypassTenantAudit: true };
 
 describe('driver-sqlite-wasm — paged reads are a partition of the result set', () => {
   let driver: SqliteWasmDriver;
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ describe('driver-sqlite-wasm — paged reads are a partition of the result set',
       },
     ]);
     for (const row of PAGINATION_ROWS) {
-      await driver.create('ticket', { ...row }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+      await driver.create('ticket', { ...row }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
     }
   });
 
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ describe('driver-sqlite-wasm — paged reads are a partition of the result set',
       const page = await driver.find(
         'ticket',
         { ...(orderBy ? { orderBy: [...orderBy] } : {}), limit: pageSize, offset } as any,
-        { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+        { bypassTenantAudit: true },
       );
       seen.push(...page.map((r: any) => String(r.id)));
     }
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ describe('driver-sqlite-wasm — paged reads are a partition of the result set',
       const whole = await driver.find(
         'ticket',
         { orderBy: [...testCase.orderBy] } as any,
-        { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+        { bypassTenantAudit: true },
       );
       expect(paged).toEqual(whole.map((r: any) => String(r.id)));
     });
@@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ describe('driver-sqlite-wasm — paged reads are a partition of the result set',
   }
 
   it('leaves an UNPAGED unordered read alone — no sort is imposed on a caller who asked for none', async () => {
-    const rows = await driver.find('ticket', {} as any, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+    const rows = await driver.find('ticket', {} as any, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
     expect(rows.map((r: any) => r.id)).toEqual(PAGINATION_ROWS.map((r) => r.id));
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-temporal-conformance.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-temporal-conformance.test.ts
index 31ee2b5934..5bcbd08910 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-temporal-conformance.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-temporal-conformance.test.ts
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ describe('driver-sqlite-wasm — temporal conformance', () => {
           on: r.on,
           why: r.why,
         },
-        { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+        { bypassTenantAudit: true },
       );
     }
   });
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ describe('driver-sqlite-wasm — Field.time conformance', () => {
           at: r.writerForm === 'native' ? new Date(`1970-01-01T${r.at}Z`) : r.at,
           why: r.why,
         },
-        { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+        { bypassTenantAudit: true },
       );
     }
   });
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-turso/src/turso-autonumber-resync.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-turso/src/turso-autonumber-resync.test.ts
index 7190ba40d9..de1970f933 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-turso/src/turso-autonumber-resync.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-turso/src/turso-autonumber-resync.test.ts
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ describe('[#5495] TursoDriver autonumber re-seed', () => {
   it('LOCAL: serves the create on the first attempt after a seed replay lands above the counter', async () => {
     const knex = (driver as any).knex;
 
-    await driver.create('crm_case', { organization_id: 'orgA', title: 'first' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any);
+    await driver.create('crm_case', { organization_id: 'orgA', title: 'first' }, { bypassTenantAudit: true });
 
     const rows = [];
     for (let n = 2; n <= 30; n++) {
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ describe('[#5495] TursoDriver autonumber re-seed', () => {
     const created = await driver.create(
       'crm_case',
       { organization_id: 'orgA', title: 'after the seeds' },
-      { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+      { bypassTenantAudit: true },
     );
     expect(created.case_number).toBe('CASE-00031');
   });
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-turso/src/turso-temporal-conformance.test.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-turso/src/turso-temporal-conformance.test.ts
index 4db69c946f..f08c25c062 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-turso/src/turso-temporal-conformance.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-turso/src/turso-temporal-conformance.test.ts
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ describe('TursoDriver — temporal conformance (local mode)', () => {
           on: r.on,
           why: r.why,
         },
-        { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+        { bypassTenantAudit: true },
       );
     }
   });
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ describe('TursoDriver — Field.time conformance (local mode)', () => {
           at: r.writerForm === 'native' ? new Date(`1970-01-01T${r.at}Z`) : r.at,
           why: r.why,
         },
-        { bypassTenantAudit: true } as any,
+        { bypassTenantAudit: true },
       );
     }
   });
diff --git a/scripts/query-options-erasure-baseline.json b/scripts/query-options-erasure-baseline.json
index 23f44f214a..02d75bac34 100644
--- a/scripts/query-options-erasure-baseline.json
+++ b/scripts/query-options-erasure-baseline.json
@@ -51,6 +51,6 @@
     "packages/services/service-settings/src/settings-service.ts": 2
   },
   "testSurface": {
-    "sites": 263
+    "sites": 256
   }
 }