diff --git a/bats_ai/core/views/guanometadata.py b/bats_ai/core/views/guanometadata.py
index 830534f7..caaae5cf 100644
--- a/bats_ai/core/views/guanometadata.py
+++ b/bats_ai/core/views/guanometadata.py
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 
 from django.http import HttpRequest, JsonResponse
 from ninja import File, Schema
+
+# Django-Ninja accesses additional params directly, so we need to ignore the type checker.
+from ninja.files import UploadedFile  # noqa: TC002
 from ninja.pagination import RouterPaginated
 
 from bats_ai.core.utils.guano_utils import extract_guano_metadata
@@ -12,7 +15,6 @@
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from datetime import datetime
 
-    from ninja.files import UploadedFile
 
 router = RouterPaginated()
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
diff --git a/bats_ai/core/views/recording.py b/bats_ai/core/views/recording.py
index 11764263..23c9cdde 100644
--- a/bats_ai/core/views/recording.py
+++ b/bats_ai/core/views/recording.py
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
 from django.core.files.storage import default_storage
 from django.db.models import Count, Exists, OuterRef, Prefetch, Q, QuerySet
 from ninja import File, Form, Query, Schema
+
+# Django-Ninja accesses additional params directly, so we need to ignore the type checker.
+from ninja.files import UploadedFile  # noqa: TC002
 from ninja.pagination import RouterPaginated
 
 from bats_ai.core.models import (
@@ -29,7 +32,6 @@
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from django.http import HttpRequest
-    from ninja.files import UploadedFile
 
     from bats_ai.core.views.recording_tag import RecordingTagSchema