diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 7bea7a56cbc..5c0b2084db2 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Follow these coding conventions for new/updated code (a three-line fix in a lega
 - Never-nester: early returns over deep nesting
 - Don't throw. Model failures as values (One function (e.g., raise_public) maps error union to existing public exception contracts via exhaustive match + assert_never)
 - No mutation. Don't reassign variables, global or local. Instead of mutable lists and dicts, prefer tuples, frozen dataclasses (with slots=True), `MappingProxyType`, etc.
-  - Annotate every variable with `: Final` (LIT010). A `TypeVar`, `ParamSpec`, or `TypeVarTuple` is the exception and stays bare, since mypy reads a Final one as `Any`. Unpacking and walrus targets cannot carry the annotation, so they are implicitly final. Don't rebind them. Never rebind or mutate function parameters (LIT011). `self`/`cls` attribute stores are the exception. If rebinding or in-place mutation is truly unavoidable, suppress with `# rebind-ok: <reason>`
+  - Annotate every variable with `: Final` (LIT010). A `TypeVar`, `ParamSpec`, `TypeVarTuple`, or `TypeAliasType` is the exception and stays bare, since mypy reads a Final one as a plain variable instead of a type. Unpacking and walrus targets cannot carry the annotation, so they are implicitly final. Don't rebind them. Never rebind or mutate function parameters (LIT011). `self`/`cls` attribute stores are the exception. If rebinding or in-place mutation is truly unavoidable, suppress with `# rebind-ok: <reason>`
   - Qualify every TypedDict field with `ReadOnly[...]` (LIT012), which nests freely with `Required` / `NotRequired` / `Annotated` in any order. If making the key writable is truly unavoidable, suppress with `# writable-ok: <reason>`
   - Comprehensions take at most one `for` clause and one `if` clause (LIT014). Split stacked clauses into a helper generator, a named intermediate, or a plain loop. Suppress with `# comprehension-ok: <reason>` only when unavoidable
   - Every pydantic model must be frozen (LIT015), set via `model_config = ConfigDict(frozen=True)`, a dict-literal `model_config`, an inner `class Config`, or the class keywords. Subclasses inherit it unless they override it. Replace in-place field writes with `model_copy(update=...)`. If making the model mutable is truly unavoidable, suppress with `# frozen-ok: <reason>` on the `class` line
diff --git a/scripts/check_type_discipline.py b/scripts/check_type_discipline.py
index 9e4da1edc9f..254f52321dc 100644
--- a/scripts/check_type_discipline.py
+++ b/scripts/check_type_discipline.py
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ LIT010  Variable assignment without a `Final` declaration. Every local and modul
         that namespace is the SDK's runtime-settable config surface (users follow
         the documented `litellm.api_key = ...` pattern and the proxy rebinds these
         via setattr), and the package ships py.typed, so a Final there turns every
-        documented downstream assignment into a mypy error. Type variables are the
-        reverse: a `TypeVar`, `ParamSpec`, or `TypeVarTuple` stays bare, and a Final one
-        trips, since mypy reads it as a plain variable and every signature using it as
-        Any. Suppress a deliberately rebindable name with `# rebind-ok: <reason>` on
-        each offending line.
+        documented downstream assignment into a mypy error. Type variables and type
+        aliases are the reverse: a `TypeVar`, `ParamSpec`, `TypeVarTuple`, or
+        `TypeAliasType` stays bare, and a Final one trips, since mypy reads it as a
+        plain variable instead of a type. Suppress a deliberately rebindable name
+        with `# rebind-ok: <reason>` on each offending line.
 LIT011  Function-argument mutation: a parameter that is re-bound (`param = ...`,
         `param += ...`, a `for`/`with`/unpacking/walrus target, `del param`, or a
         re-bind in a nested function under `nonlocal param`) or mutated in place
diff --git a/scripts/pre_commit_lint.sh b/scripts/pre_commit_lint.sh
index 95b937fd145..1c6bb903b72 100755
--- a/scripts/pre_commit_lint.sh
+++ b/scripts/pre_commit_lint.sh
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #                      -> `make lint-e2e-basedpyright` (test-linting.yml's e2e type-check step)
 #   - tests/e2e and tests/e2e_harness Python
 #                      -> raw HTTP client ban (test-linting.yml's check_e2e_no_raw_requests)
-#   - litellm/router.py, uv.lock
+#   - litellm/router.py, litellm/__init__.py, uv.lock
 #                      -> mypy Router stub guard (test-linting.yml's check_router_constructor_stub)
 #   - tests/ Python, ruff-tests.toml, scripts/check_test_quality.py,
 #     scripts/test_quality_gate.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ litellm_py_files=$(scope_match "$litellm_py_pattern")
 if [ -n "$(scope_match '^(litellm/proxy/mcp_server/|scripts/check_mcp_operation_boundary\.py)')" ]; then
     uv run --no-sync python scripts/check_mcp_operation_boundary.py || exit 1
 fi
-if [ -n "$(scope_match '^(litellm/router\.py|tests/code_coverage_tests/check_router_constructor_stub\.py|uv\.lock)$')" ]; then
+if [ -n "$(scope_match '^(litellm/(router|__init__)\.py|tests/code_coverage_tests/check_router_constructor_stub\.py|uv\.lock)$')" ]; then
     uv run --no-sync python tests/code_coverage_tests/check_router_constructor_stub.py || exit 1
 fi
 e2e_py_files=$(scope_match "$e2e_py_pattern")
diff --git a/tests/code_coverage_tests/check_router_constructor_stub.py b/tests/code_coverage_tests/check_router_constructor_stub.py
index 8ab8b82e695..eb69f7b527b 100644
--- a/tests/code_coverage_tests/check_router_constructor_stub.py
+++ b/tests/code_coverage_tests/check_router_constructor_stub.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""Fail unless mypy reads the Router constructor stub in litellm/router.py.
+"""Fail unless mypy reads the Router constructor stub in litellm/router.py through `from litellm import Router`.
 
 litellm ships py.typed, so a stub that mypy reads as Any accepts every argument name in SDK users' code,
 while basedpyright, which `make lint-e2e-basedpyright` runs, can still read it.
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Final
 
 PROBE: Final = """\
-from litellm.router import Router
+from litellm import Router
 
 Router(model_list=[], num_retries=2)
 Router(model_list=[], redis_host="localhost", redis_port="6379")
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ def mypy_errors(probe: Path) -> tuple[str, ...]:
             "--config-file=",
             "--follow-imports=skip",
             "--ignore-missing-imports",
+            "litellm/__init__.py",
             "litellm/router.py",
             str(probe),
         ),
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_pre_commit_lint.py b/tests/unit/test_pre_commit_lint.py
index 080a11188b7..72ec3707a64 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_pre_commit_lint.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_pre_commit_lint.py
@@ -454,7 +454,9 @@ def test_an_e2e_type_check_input_alone_runs_the_e2e_basedpyright_step(tmp_path:
     assert "ran:     tests/e2e basedpyright" in proc.stdout
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize(("changed", "runs"), (("litellm/router.py", True), ("litellm/foo.py", False)))
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("changed", "runs"), (("litellm/router.py", True), ("litellm/__init__.py", True), ("litellm/foo.py", False))
+)
 def test_the_router_stub_guard_runs_only_when_the_router_changes(tmp_path: Path, changed: str, runs: bool) -> None:
     repo, bin_dir = _sandbox(tmp_path)
     _commit_all(repo, "base")