diff --git a/packages/rpc/src/types.ts b/packages/rpc/src/types.ts
index e925438e..56179707 100644
--- a/packages/rpc/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/rpc/src/types.ts
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ export interface ProcedureDef<Input = unknown, Output = unknown> {
  * A procedure map with its element types erased. The `any` is deliberate and
  * confined to this alias: the phantom `__input`/`__output` markers make
  * ProcedureDef invariant, so no narrower erasure accepts a real contract.
+ * (No eslint-disable needed — `no-explicit-any` is off repo-wide, and a
+ * redundant directive is itself a lint warning.)
  */
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
 export type AnyProcedures = Record<string, ProcedureDef<any, any>>;
 
 export interface ServiceContract<Procedures extends AnyProcedures = AnyProcedures> {
diff --git a/packages/rpc/test/types.test.ts b/packages/rpc/test/types.test.ts
index ba6c801b..b6707d06 100644
--- a/packages/rpc/test/types.test.ts
+++ b/packages/rpc/test/types.test.ts
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ import type { InferInput, ProcedureDef, ServiceContract } from "../src/types.ts"
 
 describe("rpc types", () => {
   test("InferInput extracts the validated shape from a schema", () => {
-    const schema = v.object({ userId: v.string(), amountCents: v.number() });
+    // Prefixed with _ : used only via `typeof`, and the lint config requires
+    // that prefix for a binding that is never read at runtime.
+    const _schema = v.object({ userId: v.string(), amountCents: v.number() });
     // Compile-time assertion: assigning a correctly-shaped value must typecheck.
-    const value: InferInput<typeof schema> = { userId: "u1", amountCents: 10 };
+    const value: InferInput<typeof _schema> = { userId: "u1", amountCents: 10 };
     expect(value.userId).toBe("u1");
   });