diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/package.json b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/package.json
index 54d607bbf..4fdff73d0 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/package.json
+++ b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/package.json
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
-    "test:types": "tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit",
     "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/test/clients.test.ts b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/test/clients.test.ts
index e82edc04d..cff477d59 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/test/clients.test.ts
+++ b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/test/clients.test.ts
@@ -5,14 +5,13 @@ import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 import { customClientPlugin } from '@hey-api/custom-client/plugin';
 import { createClient, type UserConfig } from '@hey-api/openapi-ts';
 
-import type { PluginClientNames } from '../../../openapi-ts/src/plugins/types';
 import { getFilePaths, getSpecsPath } from '../../utils';
 import { myClientPlugin } from './custom/client/plugin';
 
 const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
 const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
 
-const clients: ReadonlyArray<PluginClientNames> = [
+const clients = [
   '@hey-api/client-angular',
   '@hey-api/client-axios',
   '@hey-api/client-fetch',
@@ -20,7 +19,7 @@ const clients: ReadonlyArray<PluginClientNames> = [
   '@hey-api/client-next',
   '@hey-api/client-nuxt',
   '@hey-api/client-ofetch',
-];
+] satisfies UserConfig['plugins'];
 
 for (const client of clients) {
   const namespace = 'clients';
diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/tsconfig.json b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/tsconfig.json
index ef5492658..03702ffcd 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/tsconfig.json
+++ b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/tsconfig.json
@@ -2,12 +2,8 @@
   "extends": "../tsconfig.base.json",
   "compilerOptions": {
     "allowImportingTsExtensions": true,
-    "declaration": false,
-    "esModuleInterop": true,
-    "noEmit": true,
-    "resolveJsonModule": true,
-    "skipLibCheck": true,
-    "types": ["vitest/globals"]
+    "resolveJsonModule": true
   },
-  "exclude": ["test/custom/request.ts", "test/generated/**"]
+  "exclude": ["test/custom/request.ts", "test/generated/**"],
+  "references": [{ "path": "../../openapi-ts" }]
 }
diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/tsconfig.test.json b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/tsconfig.test.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bbc2bb97..000000000
--- a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/main/tsconfig.test.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/tsconfig",
-  "compilerOptions": {
-    "esModuleInterop": true,
-    "experimentalDecorators": true,
-    "isolatedModules": true,
-    "lib": ["ES2022"],
-    "module": "ES2022",
-    "moduleDetection": "force",
-    "moduleResolution": "bundler",
-    "noEmit": true,
-    "noImplicitOverride": true,
-    "noImplicitReturns": true,
-    "noUncheckedIndexedAccess": true,
-    "noUncheckedSideEffectImports": true,
-    "noUnusedLocals": true,
-    "noUnusedParameters": true,
-    "resolveJsonModule": true,
-    "skipLibCheck": true,
-    "strict": true,
-    "target": "ES2022",
-    "types": ["node", "vitest/globals"],
-    "useDefineForClassFields": true
-  },
-  "include": ["test/generated/2.0.x/**/*", "test/generated/3.0.x/**/*", "test/generated/3.1.x/**/*"]
-}
diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/sdks/tsconfig.json b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/sdks/tsconfig.json
index 3d6e3fe1a..fe975c9cd 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/sdks/tsconfig.json
+++ b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/sdks/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   "extends": "../tsconfig.base.json",
   "include": ["test/**/*", "__snapshots__/**/*"],
-  "exclude": [".gen/**/*"]
+  "exclude": [".gen/**/*"],
+  "references": [{ "path": "../../openapi-ts" }]
 }
diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/tsconfig.base.json b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/tsconfig.base.json
index ee69cf5f9..783857eed 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/tsconfig.base.json
+++ b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/tsconfig.base.json
@@ -1,19 +1,13 @@
 {
+  "extends": "../../tsconfig.base.json",
   "compilerOptions": {
-    "esModuleInterop": true,
-    "module": "ESNext",
-    "moduleResolution": "Bundler",
+    "declaration": false,
+    "declarationMap": false,
     "noEmit": true,
-    "noImplicitAny": true,
     "noImplicitOverride": true,
     "noImplicitReturns": true,
-    "noUncheckedIndexedAccess": true,
     "noUnusedLocals": true,
     "noUnusedParameters": true,
-    "resolveJsonModule": true,
-    "skipLibCheck": true,
-    "strict": true,
-    "target": "ES2022",
     "types": ["vitest/globals"],
     "useUnknownInCatchVariables": false
   }
diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/zod/v3/tsconfig.json b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/zod/v3/tsconfig.json
index 200b3384a..b406106e5 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/zod/v3/tsconfig.json
+++ b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/zod/v3/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   "extends": "../../tsconfig.base.json",
   "include": ["test/**/*", "__snapshots__/**/*"],
-  "exclude": [".gen/**/*"]
+  "exclude": [".gen/**/*"],
+  "references": [{ "path": "../../../openapi-ts" }]
 }
diff --git a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/zod/v4/tsconfig.json b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/zod/v4/tsconfig.json
index 200b3384a..b406106e5 100644
--- a/packages/openapi-ts-tests/zod/v4/tsconfig.json
+++ b/packages/openapi-ts-tests/zod/v4/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   "extends": "../../tsconfig.base.json",
   "include": ["test/**/*", "__snapshots__/**/*"],
-  "exclude": [".gen/**/*"]
+  "exclude": [".gen/**/*"],
+  "references": [{ "path": "../../../openapi-ts" }]
 }