diff --git a/apps/cli/src/serve.test.ts b/apps/cli/src/serve.test.ts
index 208659d..f2a2866 100644
--- a/apps/cli/src/serve.test.ts
+++ b/apps/cli/src/serve.test.ts
@@ -649,6 +649,23 @@ describe('generation through a live server', () => {
     expect(code).toContain('name')
   }, 30_000)
 
+  // Plan 6 audit, finding 8: this used to be a 200 with `code: ""`, and the
+  // panel's Copy types put that empty string on the clipboard.
+  it('400s types for a `[]` body with a message, rather than printing an empty string', async () => {
+    writeMocks({
+      'GET /todos': { default: 'ok', responses: { ok: { status: 200, body: [] } } },
+    })
+    handle = await startServer({ root, config })
+
+    const res = await get(
+      `/__laqi/api/endpoints/${encodeURIComponent('GET /todos')}/types?response=ok`,
+    )
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400)
+    const { message } = (await res.json()) as { message: string }
+    expect(message).toMatch(/printed no declaration for Todos/)
+    expect(message).toMatch(/empty array/)
+  }, 30_000)
+
   it('404s types for an endpoint or response that does not exist', async () => {
     writeMocks({ 'GET /x': { default: 'ok', responses: { ok: { status: 200 } } } })
     handle = await startServer({ root, config })
diff --git a/apps/documentation/src/content/docs/trying-v2.md b/apps/documentation/src/content/docs/trying-v2.md
index f480308..a7a0868 100644
--- a/apps/documentation/src/content/docs/trying-v2.md
+++ b/apps/documentation/src/content/docs/trying-v2.md
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ export interface Todo {
 
 Click **Create**. The endpoint is written to `laqi/api.json` immediately,
 with a response body already filled with seeded data generated from that
-shape — `title` reads like a real sentence, `createdAt` is a date, `id` is
+shape — `title` is a few lorem-ipsum words, `createdAt` is a date, `id` is
 sequential — and the panel drops you straight into the endpoint's detail
 view.
 
diff --git a/packages/generate/src/export-types.test.ts b/packages/generate/src/export-types.test.ts
index 1b13fff..995b427 100644
--- a/packages/generate/src/export-types.test.ts
+++ b/packages/generate/src/export-types.test.ts
@@ -51,6 +51,30 @@ describe('exporting a stored schema', () => {
   it('says which language it does not know, rather than printing the wrong one', async () => {
     await expect(exportTypes(OBJECT, 'cobol')).rejects.toThrow(/unknown language/)
   }, 30_000)
+
+  // Plan 6 audit, finding 8, re-verified against the schema path: a stored
+  // schema whose root is an array of anything has nothing quicktype can
+  // declare, so every translated target fails with a message rather than
+  // handing back an empty string. TypeScript is laqi's own printer and has
+  // no such gap.
+  describe('a schema whose root is an array of anything', () => {
+    const ANYTHING_LIST = snapshotOf({ type: 'array', items: {} }, 'Todos')
+
+    it('fails with a message in a translated target instead of exporting nothing', async () => {
+      await expect(exportTypes(ANYTHING_LIST, 'typescript-zod')).rejects.toThrow(
+        /printed no declaration for Todos/,
+      )
+      await expect(exportTypes(ANYTHING_LIST, 'python')).rejects.toThrow(
+        /printed no declaration for Todos/,
+      )
+    }, 30_000)
+
+    it('still exports as TypeScript, which laqi prints itself', async () => {
+      const exported = await exportTypes(ANYTHING_LIST)
+      expect(exported.code).toContain('Todos')
+      expect(exported.code).toContain('unknown[]')
+    })
+  })
 })
 
 describe('what the exporter cannot express', () => {
diff --git a/packages/generate/src/generate.test.ts b/packages/generate/src/generate.test.ts
index 4792793..655ad51 100644
--- a/packages/generate/src/generate.test.ts
+++ b/packages/generate/src/generate.test.ts
@@ -83,16 +83,23 @@ describe('generate', () => {
   // so it degraded to plain "ends with id" — paid/valid/void/rapid were all
   // id-classified. This test failed before the rule-table refactor and
   // passes after it.
+  //
+  // The Plan 6 audit found an earlier version of this test vacuous: it
+  // asserted `>= 0`, which a sequential id satisfies too. An id-classified
+  // field is a per-field counter, so across three array items it reads
+  // exactly 1, 2, 3 — and that is what is asserted NOT to happen, next to
+  // the real `id` for which it must.
   it('does not match paid/valid/void/rapid with endsWith("id") — word boundaries only', async () => {
+    const lookalikes = ['paid', 'valid', 'void', 'rapid', 'identifier']
+    for (const name of lookalikes) {
+      expect(ruleFor(name, 'integer'), `expected "${name}" to be a plain number`).toBe('number')
+    }
+
     // Test with INTEGER type so the id branch is actually reached
-    const shape: Shape = {
+    const item: Shape = {
       kind: 'object',
       fields: [
-        { name: 'paid', shape: primitive('integer'), optional: false },
-        { name: 'valid', shape: primitive('integer'), optional: false },
-        { name: 'void', shape: primitive('integer'), optional: false },
-        { name: 'rapid', shape: primitive('integer'), optional: false },
-        { name: 'identifier', shape: primitive('integer'), optional: false },
+        ...lookalikes.map((name) => ({ name, shape: primitive('integer'), optional: false })),
         { name: 'userId', shape: primitive('integer'), optional: false },
         { name: 'user_id', shape: primitive('integer'), optional: false },
         { name: 'orderId', shape: primitive('integer'), optional: false },
@@ -100,23 +107,31 @@ describe('generate', () => {
         { name: '_id', shape: primitive('integer'), optional: false },
       ],
     }
-    const value = (await generate(shape, { seed: 42 })) as Record<string, unknown>
-    // paid, valid, void, rapid, identifier should NOT be sequential IDs
-    expect(value.paid).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0)
-    expect(value.valid).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0)
-    expect(value.void).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0)
-    expect(value.rapid).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0)
-    expect(value.identifier).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0)
-    // id and _id should be sequential (1, 2, ...)
-    expect(value.id).toBe(1)
-    expect(value._id).toBe(2)
+    const list = (await generate(
+      { kind: 'array', items: item },
+      { seed: 42, arrayLength: 3 },
+    )) as Record<string, unknown>[]
+    const column = (name: string) => list.map((value) => value[name])
+
+    // id and _id share one counter (same normalized name), so the sequence
+    // interleaves: 1, 3, 5 for id and 2, 4, 6 for _id.
+    expect(column('id')).toEqual([1, 3, 5])
+    expect(column('_id')).toEqual([2, 4, 6])
+    // The lookalikes are plain numbers: not a counter, never 1, 2, 3.
+    for (const name of lookalikes) {
+      expect(column(name), `"${name}" was generated as a sequential id`).not.toEqual([1, 2, 3])
+      for (const value of column(name)) {
+        expect(value).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0)
+        expect(value).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1000)
+      }
+    }
     // Foreign keys should be in range [1, 1000]
-    expect(value.userId).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(1)
-    expect(value.userId).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1000)
-    expect(value.user_id).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(1)
-    expect(value.user_id).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1000)
-    expect(value.orderId).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(1)
-    expect(value.orderId).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1000)
+    for (const name of ['userId', 'user_id', 'orderId']) {
+      for (const value of column(name)) {
+        expect(value).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(1)
+        expect(value).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1000)
+      }
+    }
   })
 
   it('combined fixture with paid, valid, emailVerifiedAt, filename, username, id, userId, orderId', async () => {
diff --git a/packages/generate/src/print-types.test.ts b/packages/generate/src/print-types.test.ts
index e129424..8b3e6bd 100644
--- a/packages/generate/src/print-types.test.ts
+++ b/packages/generate/src/print-types.test.ts
@@ -63,6 +63,35 @@ describe('printTypes', () => {
     expect(code).toMatch(/string/)
   })
 
+  // Plan 6 audit, finding 8: a `[]` body is `array<unknown>`, which
+  // quicktype prints as nothing — no declaration, no error — so Copy types
+  // put an empty string on the clipboard with a 200.
+  describe('a root quicktype cannot name', () => {
+    const emptyBody: Shape = { kind: 'array', items: { kind: 'unknown' } }
+
+    it('fails with a message instead of printing an empty string', async () => {
+      await expect(printTypes(emptyBody, { typeName: 'Todos' })).rejects.toThrow(
+        /printed no declaration for Todos.*empty array/s,
+      )
+    }, 30_000)
+
+    it('fails the same way where quicktype prints only an import line', async () => {
+      await expect(
+        printTypes(emptyBody, { typeName: 'Todos', lang: 'typescript-zod' }),
+      ).rejects.toThrow(/printed no declaration for Todos/)
+    }, 30_000)
+
+    it('still prints an empty array nested inside an object', async () => {
+      const shape: Shape = {
+        kind: 'object',
+        fields: [{ name: 'items', shape: emptyBody, optional: false }],
+      }
+      const { code } = await printTypes(shape, { typeName: 'Todos' })
+      expect(code).toContain('Todos')
+      expect(code).toContain('items')
+    }, 30_000)
+  })
+
   it('smoke-emits every advertised language', async () => {
     // Deep assertions only for TS and Zod; the rest must at least emit
     // non-empty code without throwing.
diff --git a/packages/generate/src/print-types.ts b/packages/generate/src/print-types.ts
index 25d33b4..e1568f4 100644
--- a/packages/generate/src/print-types.ts
+++ b/packages/generate/src/print-types.ts
@@ -92,9 +92,39 @@ export const printDocumentEffect = (
       catch: (e) => new PrintError({ message: String(e) }),
     })
 
+    // quicktype declares object types and nothing else. Hand it a root that
+    // is not one — an empty array, an array of bare values, a lone value —
+    // and most targets print nothing at all, Zod prints a bare import line,
+    // and none of them errors. A `[]` body is exactly that root, so without
+    // this check the panel's Copy types put an empty string on the clipboard
+    // with a 200.
+    if (!declares(code, options.typeName)) {
+      return yield* Effect.fail(
+        new PrintError({
+          message:
+            `${lang} printed no declaration for ${options.typeName}: this target only names ` +
+            'object types, and the root of this schema is not one (an empty array, an array ' +
+            'of bare values, or a lone value — typically a body that is `[]`). Give the body ' +
+            'an object to describe, or build a schema from a model, and export again.',
+        }),
+      )
+    }
+
     return { code, language: lang }
   })
 
+/**
+ * Whether printed code names the type at all. Folded to lowercase
+ * alphanumerics on both sides, because a target may render `TodoItem` as
+ * `todo_item` or `TodoItemElement` and still have declared it; what no
+ * target does is declare a type without its name appearing somewhere.
+ */
+function declares(code: string, typeName: string): boolean {
+  const fold = (text: string) => text.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]/g, '')
+  const name = fold(typeName)
+  return name.length === 0 || fold(code).includes(name)
+}
+
 /** A Shape prints as the document it maps to. */
 export const printTypesEffect = (
   shape: Shape,