diff --git a/.mise/tasks/typecheck/backend b/.mise/tasks/typecheck/backend
index bcd5f84..2537662 100755
--- a/.mise/tasks/typecheck/backend
+++ b/.mise/tasks/typecheck/backend
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
 #MISE description="Typecheck the backend with tsc"
+# The backend imports @jack/schemas, whose sources are generated and gitignored —
+# without this, a fresh checkout fails with "Cannot find module '@jack/schemas/...'".
+# `clients:generate` rather than `clients`: it skips the clean, so it's idempotent
+# and cheap to repeat on every typecheck.
+#MISE depends=["clients:generate"]
 
 bunx tsc --project apps/backend/tsconfig.json --noEmit --pretty false
diff --git a/.mise/tasks/typecheck/workspace b/.mise/tasks/typecheck/workspace
index 70c6a83..1eee24d 100755
--- a/.mise/tasks/typecheck/workspace
+++ b/.mise/tasks/typecheck/workspace
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
 #MISE description="Typecheck non-Vue workspace files with tsc"
+# packages/schemas re-exports the generated (gitignored) clients, so they have to
+# exist before tsc runs over the workspace. `clients:generate` skips the clean that
+# `clients` does, so repeating it on every typecheck is cheap.
+#MISE depends=["clients:generate"]
 
 bunx tsc --project tsconfig.json --noEmit --pretty false