diff --git a/src/shared/schemas/searchTools.ts b/src/shared/schemas/searchTools.ts
index aa6f5aae14..8c78a14e51 100644
--- a/src/shared/schemas/searchTools.ts
+++ b/src/shared/schemas/searchTools.ts
@@ -37,5 +37,3 @@ export const ScrapeResultSchema = z.object({
   screenshot_url: z.string().nullable(),
 });
 export type ScrapeResult = z.infer<typeof ScrapeResultSchema>;
-
-export const SearchProviderCatalogResponseSchemaFull = SearchProviderCatalogResponseSchema;
diff --git a/src/shared/validation/settingsSchemas.ts b/src/shared/validation/settingsSchemas.ts
index 6c69834894..60fcb6c9d2 100644
--- a/src/shared/validation/settingsSchemas.ts
+++ b/src/shared/validation/settingsSchemas.ts
@@ -407,10 +407,3 @@ export const databaseSettingsSchema = z
     // Skip location and stats as they're read-only
   })
   .strict();
-
-export type DatabaseSettingsSchema = z.infer<typeof databaseSettingsSchema>;
-
-export const featureFlagUpdateSchema = z.object({
-  key: z.string().min(1),
-  value: z.string().optional(),
-});
diff --git a/tests/unit/feature-flags-settings.test.ts b/tests/unit/feature-flags-settings.test.ts
index 36308bfc86..f0f5feb190 100644
--- a/tests/unit/feature-flags-settings.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/feature-flags-settings.test.ts
@@ -418,3 +418,12 @@ describe("featureFlagUpdateSchema validation", () => {
     );
   });
 });
+
+describe("settings schema public surface", () => {
+  it("uses databaseSettingsSchema as the canonical database settings export", async () => {
+    const settingsSchemas = await import("../../src/shared/validation/settingsSchemas.ts");
+    assert.equal("DatabaseSettingsSchema" in settingsSchemas, false);
+    assert.equal("featureFlagUpdateSchema" in settingsSchemas, false);
+    assert.equal(typeof settingsSchemas.databaseSettingsSchema.safeParse, "function");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/tests/unit/search-tools-schemas.test.ts b/tests/unit/search-tools-schemas.test.ts
index e58651450f..ab2876da1e 100644
--- a/tests/unit/search-tools-schemas.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/search-tools-schemas.test.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { ZodError } from "zod";
 
 const { SearchProviderCatalogItemSchema, SearchProviderCatalogResponseSchema, ScrapeResultSchema } =
   await import("../../src/shared/schemas/searchTools.ts");
+const searchToolsModule = await import("../../src/shared/schemas/searchTools.ts");
 
 // ── SearchProviderCatalogItemSchema ───────────────────────────────────────────
 
@@ -160,6 +161,11 @@ test("SearchProviderCatalogResponseSchema: invalid — providers not array", ()
   assert.ok(!result.success, "non-array providers should fail");
 });
 
+test("SearchProviderCatalogResponseSchemaFull alias is not exported", () => {
+  assert.equal("SearchProviderCatalogResponseSchemaFull" in searchToolsModule, false);
+  assert.equal(typeof searchToolsModule.SearchProviderCatalogResponseSchema.safeParse, "function");
+});
+
 // ── ScrapeResultSchema ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 test("ScrapeResultSchema: valid scrape result parses", () => {