diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly_tighten_basedpyright_budget.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly_tighten_basedpyright_budget.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b1ac891aae1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly_tighten_basedpyright_budget.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+name: Nightly Basedpyright Budget Tighten
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "47 7 * * *"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  tighten:
+    if: github.repository == 'BerriAI/litellm'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@08eba0b27e820071cde6df949e0beb9ba4906955 # v4.3.0
+        with:
+          ref: litellm_internal_staging
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065 # v5.6.0
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+
+      - name: Set up uv
+        uses: ./.github/actions/setup-uv-with-retries
+        with:
+          version: "0.10.9"
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          uv sync --frozen --group proxy-dev --group e2e-dev
+
+      - name: Generate Prisma client
+        env:
+          PRISMA_BINARY_CACHE_DIR: ${{ runner.temp }}/prisma-cache
+        run: |
+          uv run --no-sync prisma generate --schema litellm/proxy/schema.prisma
+
+      - name: Tighten basedpyright budget
+        env:
+          NODE_OPTIONS: --max-old-space-size=12288
+        run: |
+          (uv run --no-sync basedpyright --outputjson || true) | uv run --no-sync python scripts/type_check_gate.py --tighten
+
+      - name: Create pull request
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          if git diff --quiet basedpyright-code-budget.json; then
+            echo "No stale headroom to remove; skipping PR."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          BRANCH_NAME="litellm_tighten_basedpyright_budget_$(date +'%m_%d_%Y')"
+          if git ls-remote --exit-code --heads origin "$BRANCH_NAME" > /dev/null; then
+            echo "Branch $BRANCH_NAME already exists; skipping PR."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
+          git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+          git checkout -b "$BRANCH_NAME"
+          git add basedpyright-code-budget.json
+          git commit -m "chore(typing): tighten basedpyright budget to staging head counts"
+          git push "https://x-access-token:${GH_TOKEN}@github.com/${{ github.repository }}.git" "HEAD:refs/heads/$BRANCH_NAME"
+          gh pr create --base litellm_internal_staging --head "$BRANCH_NAME" \
+            --title "chore(typing): tighten basedpyright budget to staging head counts" \
+            --body "Automated nightly run of scripts/type_check_gate.py --tighten. Every limit in basedpyright-code-budget.json falls to the current staging head count for its rule plus 50 slack; limits that are already at or below that stay put, so limits only ever fall. The delta-vs-base gate still spares any PR that does not grow a rule past its base, so this only stops new errors from hiding under stale headroom"
diff --git a/basedpyright-code-budget.json b/basedpyright-code-budget.json
index 28602fc235f..390af516b0e 100644
--- a/basedpyright-code-budget.json
+++ b/basedpyright-code-budget.json
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 {
   "reportAny": {
-    "limit": 34906
+    "limit": 24479
   },
   "reportArgumentType": {
-    "limit": 2701
+    "limit": 2233
   },
   "reportAssignmentType": {
-    "limit": 330
+    "limit": 280
   },
   "reportAttributeAccessIssue": {
-    "limit": 516
+    "limit": 422
   },
   "reportCallIssue": {
     "limit": 123
@@ -18,19 +18,19 @@
     "limit": 59
   },
   "reportDeprecated": {
-    "limit": 326
+    "limit": 271
   },
   "reportDuplicateImport": {
     "limit": 42
   },
   "reportExplicitAny": {
-    "limit": 10230
+    "limit": 7334
   },
   "reportFunctionMemberAccess": {
     "limit": 11
   },
   "reportGeneralTypeIssues": {
-    "limit": 227
+    "limit": 205
   },
   "reportIncompatibleMethodOverride": {
     "limit": 78
@@ -54,10 +54,10 @@
     "limit": 0
   },
   "reportMissingParameterType": {
-    "limit": 5893
+    "limit": 4021
   },
   "reportMissingTypeArgument": {
-    "limit": 15886
+    "limit": 11127
   },
   "reportMissingTypeStubs": {
     "limit": 41
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
     "limit": 0
   },
   "reportOptionalMemberAccess": {
-    "limit": 1085
+    "limit": 780
   },
   "reportOptionalOperand": {
     "limit": 0
@@ -84,13 +84,13 @@
     "limit": 77
   },
   "reportPrivateUsage": {
-    "limit": 2438
+    "limit": 1870
   },
   "reportRedeclaration": {
     "limit": 12
   },
   "reportReturnType": {
-    "limit": 225
+    "limit": 203
   },
   "reportTypedDictNotRequiredAccess": {
     "limit": 27
@@ -99,34 +99,34 @@
     "limit": 0
   },
   "reportUnknownArgumentType": {
-    "limit": 45870
+    "limit": 34418
   },
   "reportUnknownLambdaType": {
     "limit": 113
   },
   "reportUnknownMemberType": {
-    "limit": 40525
+    "limit": 28432
   },
   "reportUnknownParameterType": {
-    "limit": 20384
+    "limit": 13955
   },
   "reportUnknownVariableType": {
-    "limit": 32099
+    "limit": 22373
   },
   "reportUnnecessaryCast": {
-    "limit": 177
+    "limit": 176
   },
   "reportUnnecessaryComparison": {
-    "limit": 1023
+    "limit": 760
   },
   "reportUnnecessaryContains": {
     "limit": 7
   },
   "reportUnnecessaryIsInstance": {
-    "limit": 1206
+    "limit": 915
   },
   "reportUntypedBaseClass": {
-    "limit": 165
+    "limit": 148
   },
   "reportUntypedFunctionDecorator": {
     "limit": 33
@@ -135,12 +135,12 @@
     "limit": 33
   },
   "reportUnusedFunction": {
-    "limit": 206
+    "limit": 190
   },
   "reportUnusedImport": {
-    "limit": 1005
+    "limit": 640
   },
   "reportUnusedVariable": {
-    "limit": 1297
+    "limit": 198
   }
 }
diff --git a/scripts/type_check_gate.py b/scripts/type_check_gate.py
index 2c5306cec7d..a4f248c3f14 100644
--- a/scripts/type_check_gate.py
+++ b/scripts/type_check_gate.py
@@ -305,6 +305,37 @@ def cmd_update(current: Mapping[str, int], base_ref: str = DEFAULT_BASE) -> None
     )
 
 
+def tightened_budget(
+    budget: Mapping[str, Mapping[str, int]],
+    current: Mapping[str, int],
+    slack: int,
+) -> dict[str, dict[str, int]]:
+    return {
+        code: {"limit": min(spec["limit"], current.get(code, 0) + slack)}
+        for code, spec in sorted(budget.items())
+    }
+
+
+def cmd_tighten(
+    current: Mapping[str, int], slack: int, budget_path: Path = BUDGET_PATH
+) -> None:
+    budget = json.loads(budget_path.read_text())
+    if is_vacuous_run(current, budget):
+        print(
+            f"FAIL: basedpyright produced no errors, but {budget_path.name} allows "
+            f"a nonzero total. The type checker almost certainly crashed or emitted "
+            f"nothing; refusing to tighten every limit down to the slack floor."
+        )
+        raise SystemExit(1)
+    updated = tightened_budget(budget, current, slack)
+    budget_path.write_text(json.dumps(updated, indent=2, sort_keys=True) + "\n")
+    removed = sum(budget[code]["limit"] - updated[code]["limit"] for code in updated)
+    print(
+        f"Tightened basedpyright limits to head counts plus {slack} slack, "
+        f"removing {removed} errors of stale headroom across {len(updated)} rules"
+    )
+
+
 def cmd_check(base_ref: str) -> None:
     budget = json.loads(BUDGET_PATH.read_text())
     head = count_basedpyright(sys.stdin.read())
@@ -353,10 +384,17 @@ def cmd_check(base_ref: str) -> None:
 def main() -> None:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
     parser.add_argument("--base", default=DEFAULT_BASE)
-    parser.add_argument("--update", action="store_true")
+    mode = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
+    mode.add_argument("--update", action="store_true")
+    mode.add_argument("--tighten", action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument("--slack", type=int, default=50)
     args = parser.parse_args()
+    if args.slack < 0:
+        parser.error("--slack must be >= 0")
     if args.update:
         cmd_update(count_basedpyright(sys.stdin.read()), args.base)
+    elif args.tighten:
+        cmd_tighten(count_basedpyright(sys.stdin.read()), args.slack)
     else:
         cmd_check(args.base)
 
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/test_type_check_gate.py b/tests/test_litellm/test_type_check_gate.py
index 66a28360af9..95668dbb169 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/test_type_check_gate.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/test_type_check_gate.py
@@ -287,3 +287,51 @@ def test_an_empty_base_pass_is_never_cached(tmp_path):
     assert gate.base_counts_cached("abc123", cache_dir=tmp_path, compute=crashed) == {}
     assert calls == ["abc123", "abc123"]
     assert list(tmp_path.iterdir()) == []
+
+
+def test_tighten_collapses_stale_headroom_to_current_plus_slack():
+    budget = {"reportAny": {"limit": 34906}}
+    assert gate.tightened_budget(budget, {"reportAny": 24427}, 50) == {
+        "reportAny": {"limit": 24477}
+    }
+
+
+def test_tighten_never_raises_a_limit():
+    budget = {"reportAny": {"limit": 100}}
+    assert gate.tightened_budget(budget, {"reportAny": 90}, 50) == {
+        "reportAny": {"limit": 100}
+    }
+
+
+def test_tighten_floors_a_cleared_rule_at_the_slack():
+    budget = {"reportAny": {"limit": 100}, "reportCall": {"limit": 8}}
+    assert gate.tightened_budget(budget, {"reportAny": 0}, 50) == {
+        "reportAny": {"limit": 50},
+        "reportCall": {"limit": 8},
+    }
+
+
+def test_tighten_does_not_adopt_rules_outside_the_budget():
+    assert gate.tightened_budget({}, {"brand-new": 7}, 50) == {}
+
+
+def test_tighten_writes_only_lowered_limits(tmp_path):
+    budget_path = tmp_path / "budget.json"
+    budget_path.write_text(
+        json.dumps({"reportAny": {"limit": 100}, "reportCall": {"limit": 3}})
+    )
+    gate.cmd_tighten({"reportAny": 20, "reportCall": 5}, 10, budget_path=budget_path)
+    assert json.loads(budget_path.read_text()) == {
+        "reportAny": {"limit": 30},
+        "reportCall": {"limit": 3},
+    }
+
+
+def test_tighten_refuses_a_vacuous_run(tmp_path):
+    import pytest
+
+    budget_path = tmp_path / "budget.json"
+    budget_path.write_text(json.dumps({"reportAny": {"limit": 100}}))
+    with pytest.raises(SystemExit):
+        gate.cmd_tighten({}, 50, budget_path=budget_path)
+    assert json.loads(budget_path.read_text()) == {"reportAny": {"limit": 100}}