diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/parallel_utils.py b/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/parallel_utils.py
index 711a4632d..658267f7f 100644
--- a/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/parallel_utils.py
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/parallel_utils.py
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ def worker_process_entrypoint(
     while True:
         try:
             task = req_gen.send(result)
-            if isinstance(task, str) and task == _END_SENTINEL:
+            if isinstance(task, str) and task == EndSentinel():
                 break
 
             assert isinstance(task, TaskRequest)
diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/quantization/loader.py b/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/quantization/loader.py
index a2dc00916..ba45acc2b 100644
--- a/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/quantization/loader.py
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/inline/inference/meta_reference/quantization/loader.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import os
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
 
 import torch
+from fairscale.nn.model_parallel.initialize import get_model_parallel_rank
 from fairscale.nn.model_parallel.layers import ColumnParallelLinear, RowParallelLinear
 from fairscale.nn.model_parallel.mappings import reduce_from_model_parallel_region
 from llama_models.llama3.api.args import ModelArgs
diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/inline/tool_runtime/code_interpreter/matplotlib_custom_backend.py b/llama_stack/providers/inline/tool_runtime/code_interpreter/matplotlib_custom_backend.py
index 7fec08cf2..6454358a5 100644
--- a/llama_stack/providers/inline/tool_runtime/code_interpreter/matplotlib_custom_backend.py
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/inline/tool_runtime/code_interpreter/matplotlib_custom_backend.py
@@ -73,7 +73,10 @@ def show():
         image_data.append({"image_base64": image_base64})
         buf.close()
 
-    req_con, resp_con = _open_connections()
+    # The _open_connections method is dynamically made available to
+    # the interpreter by bundling code from "code_env_prefix.py" -- by literally prefixing it -- and
+    # then "eval"ing it within a sandboxed interpreter.
+    req_con, resp_con = _open_connections()  # noqa: F821
 
     _json_dump = _json.dumps(
         {
diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/databricks/databricks.py b/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/databricks/databricks.py
index 75751c8b1..9db430e4d 100644
--- a/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/databricks/databricks.py
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/remote/inference/databricks/databricks.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from llama_stack.apis.inference import (
     SamplingParams,
     TextTruncation,
     ToolChoice,
+    ToolConfig,
     ToolDefinition,
     ToolPromptFormat,
 )
diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/tests/post_training/test_post_training.py b/llama_stack/providers/tests/post_training/test_post_training.py
index c2bb4d98b..aefef5332 100644
--- a/llama_stack/providers/tests/post_training/test_post_training.py
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/tests/post_training/test_post_training.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #
 # This source code is licensed under the terms described in the LICENSE file in
 # the root directory of this source tree.
+from typing import List
+
 import pytest
 
 from llama_stack.apis.common.job_types import JobStatus
diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/utils/inference/embedding_mixin.py b/llama_stack/providers/utils/inference/embedding_mixin.py
index f43475554..2a16e7f40 100644
--- a/llama_stack/providers/utils/inference/embedding_mixin.py
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/utils/inference/embedding_mixin.py
@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@
 # the root directory of this source tree.
 
 import logging
-from typing import List, Optional
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, List, Optional
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
 
 from llama_stack.apis.inference import (
     EmbeddingsResponse,
@@ -40,7 +43,7 @@ class SentenceTransformerEmbeddingMixin:
         )
         return EmbeddingsResponse(embeddings=embeddings)
 
-    def _load_sentence_transformer_model(self, model: str) -> "SentenceTransformer":
+    def _load_sentence_transformer_model(self, model: str) -> SentenceTransformer:
         global EMBEDDING_MODELS
 
         loaded_model = EMBEDDING_MODELS.get(model)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d65f30c30..2ed2c4fa9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ ignore = [
     "E721",
     "E741",
     "F405",
-    "F821",
     "F841",
     "C408", # ignored because we like the dict keyword argument syntax
     "E302",