diff --git a/scripts/generate_openapi_schema.py b/scripts/generate_openapi_schema.py
index db35bf410..6ee8f84d2 100644
--- a/scripts/generate_openapi_schema.py
+++ b/scripts/generate_openapi_schema.py
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ def generate_openapi_schema(schema_file_name: str) -> None:
         AssertionError: If the schema and project versions differ.
         subprocess.CalledProcessError: If ``pdm show --version`` fails.
         OSError: If the file cannot be written or PDM cannot be started.
+
     """
     print("Service metadata:")
     print(app.title)
diff --git a/scripts/latest_tag.py b/scripts/latest_tag.py
index e63ba3906..6019320ee 100755
--- a/scripts/latest_tag.py
+++ b/scripts/latest_tag.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ def get_latest_stable() -> Optional[str]:
     Raises:
         subprocess.CalledProcessError: If ``git tag`` fails.
         OSError: If Git cannot be started.
+
     """
     stdout = subprocess.check_output(["git", "tag"], text=True)
     tags = [tag for tag in stdout.splitlines() if not is_prerelease(tag)]
diff --git a/scripts/vulnerability_report.py b/scripts/vulnerability_report.py
index b541919b6..12774f0f2 100644
--- a/scripts/vulnerability_report.py
+++ b/scripts/vulnerability_report.py
@@ -895,6 +895,7 @@ def process_issues_for_repository(
 
     Retrieval takes precedence over report generation and returns its status.
     Otherwise return 0 after processing; file, data, and plotting errors propagate.
+
     """
     prefix = repository
     result = 0
diff --git a/src/providers/inference/azure/provider.py b/src/providers/inference/azure/provider.py
index 8c566774e..4d8f354c9 100644
--- a/src/providers/inference/azure/provider.py
+++ b/src/providers/inference/azure/provider.py
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@
 )
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder
-
     from providers.inference.types import ModelType
 
 
diff --git a/src/providers/inference/bedrock/provider.py b/src/providers/inference/bedrock/provider.py
index e0e71f544..30eac56ca 100644
--- a/src/providers/inference/bedrock/provider.py
+++ b/src/providers/inference/bedrock/provider.py
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@
 from providers.inference.errors import ModelDiscoveryError
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder
-
     from providers.inference.types import ModelType
 
 
diff --git a/src/providers/inference/openai/provider.py b/src/providers/inference/openai/provider.py
index d45230e67..2c2ac4065 100644
--- a/src/providers/inference/openai/provider.py
+++ b/src/providers/inference/openai/provider.py
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@
 )
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder
-
     from providers.inference.types import ModelType
 
 
diff --git a/src/providers/inference/vertexai/provider.py b/src/providers/inference/vertexai/provider.py
index 28038409d..0b02ac65d 100644
--- a/src/providers/inference/vertexai/provider.py
+++ b/src/providers/inference/vertexai/provider.py
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@
 )
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder
-
     from providers.inference.types import ModelType
 
 
diff --git a/src/providers/inference/vllm/provider.py b/src/providers/inference/vllm/provider.py
index 42858ab11..04823dd58 100644
--- a/src/providers/inference/vllm/provider.py
+++ b/src/providers/inference/vllm/provider.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
+from typing import Any
 
 from openai import APIError
 from pydantic_ai.embeddings import EmbeddingModel
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@
 )
 from providers.inference.types import ModelType
 
-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder
-
 
 class VllmInferenceProvider(
     InferenceProvider[VllmInferenceProviderEntry, VLLMProvider]
diff --git a/src/providers/inference/watsonx/provider.py b/src/providers/inference/watsonx/provider.py
index 99329a5ab..ef85594d2 100644
--- a/src/providers/inference/watsonx/provider.py
+++ b/src/providers/inference/watsonx/provider.py
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@
 from providers.inference.watsonx.specs import FoundationModelSpecsResponse
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder
-
     from providers.inference.types import ModelType