diff --git a/packages/core/src/context/config/SidecarLoader.ts b/packages/core/src/context/config/SidecarLoader.ts
index 8b34e847bc..6d1eb99e65 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/context/config/SidecarLoader.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/context/config/SidecarLoader.ts
@@ -52,7 +52,11 @@ export class SidecarLoader {
       );
     }
 
-    // Extract strictly what we need since we just validated it.
+    // Extract strictly what we need.
+    // Why this unsafe cast is acceptable:
+    // SchemaValidator just ran \`getSidecarConfigSchema(registry)\` against \`parsed\`.
+    // That function dynamically maps the \`processorOptions\` to strict JSON schema definitions,
+    // so we know with absolute certainty at runtime that \`parsed\` conforms to this shape.
     // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-type-assertion
     const validConfig = parsed as {
       budget?: SidecarConfig['budget'];
diff --git a/packages/core/src/context/config/profiles.ts b/packages/core/src/context/config/profiles.ts
index ec2ae032e9..7ab19c41e9 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/context/config/profiles.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/context/config/profiles.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,33 @@ import { createNodeDistillationProcessor } from '../processors/nodeDistillationP
 import { createStateSnapshotProcessor } from '../processors/stateSnapshotProcessor.js';
 import { createStateSnapshotAsyncProcessor } from '../processors/stateSnapshotAsyncProcessor.js';
 
+/**
+ * Helper to safely merge static default options with dynamically loaded
+ * JSON overrides from the SidecarConfig.
+ *
+ * Why the unsafe cast is acceptable here:
+ * Before the \`config\` object ever reaches this function, \`SidecarLoader.ts\`
+ * passes the raw JSON through \`SchemaValidator\`. The schema dynamically generates
+ * a \`oneOf\` map linking every \`type\` discriminator to its corresponding processor
+ * schema definition. By the time we access \`options\` here, its shape has been
+ * strictly validated against the corresponding Zod/JSONSchema definition at runtime,
+ * making the generic cast to \`<T>\` structurally safe.
+ */
+function resolveProcessorOptions<T>(
+  config: SidecarConfig | undefined,
+  id: string,
+  defaultOptions: T,
+): T {
+  if (config?.processorOptions && config.processorOptions[id]) {
+    return {
+      ...defaultOptions,
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-type-assertion
+      ...(config.processorOptions[id].options as T),
+    };
+  }
+  return defaultOptions;
+}
+
 export interface ContextProfile {
   config: SidecarConfig;
   buildPipelines: (
@@ -42,20 +69,9 @@ export const defaultSidecarProfile: ContextProfile = {
   buildPipelines: (
     env: ContextEnvironment,
     config?: SidecarConfig,
-  ): PipelineDef[] => {
+  ): PipelineDef[] =>
     // Helper to merge default options with dynamically loaded processorOptions by ID
-    const getOptions = <T>(id: string, defaultOptions: T): T => {
-      if (config?.processorOptions && config.processorOptions[id]) {
-        // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-type-assertion
-        return {
-          ...defaultOptions,
-          ...(config.processorOptions[id].options as T),
-        };
-      }
-      return defaultOptions;
-    };
-
-    return [
+    [
       {
         name: 'Immediate Sanitization',
         triggers: ['new_message'],
@@ -63,7 +79,9 @@ export const defaultSidecarProfile: ContextProfile = {
           createToolMaskingProcessor(
             'ToolMasking',
             env,
-            getOptions('ToolMasking', { stringLengthThresholdTokens: 8000 }),
+            resolveProcessorOptions(config, 'ToolMasking', {
+              stringLengthThresholdTokens: 8000,
+            }),
           ),
           createBlobDegradationProcessor('BlobDegradation', env), // No options
         ],
@@ -75,12 +93,16 @@ export const defaultSidecarProfile: ContextProfile = {
           createNodeTruncationProcessor(
             'NodeTruncation',
             env,
-            getOptions('NodeTruncation', { maxTokensPerNode: 3000 }),
+            resolveProcessorOptions(config, 'NodeTruncation', {
+              maxTokensPerNode: 3000,
+            }),
           ),
           createNodeDistillationProcessor(
             'NodeDistillation',
             env,
-            getOptions('NodeDistillation', { nodeThresholdTokens: 5000 }),
+            resolveProcessorOptions(config, 'NodeDistillation', {
+              nodeThresholdTokens: 5000,
+            }),
           ),
         ],
       },
@@ -91,40 +113,29 @@ export const defaultSidecarProfile: ContextProfile = {
           createStateSnapshotProcessor(
             'StateSnapshotSync',
             env,
-            getOptions('StateSnapshotSync', { target: 'max' }),
+            resolveProcessorOptions(config, 'StateSnapshotSync', {
+              target: 'max',
+            }),
           ),
         ],
       },
-    ];
-  },
-
+    ],
   buildAsyncPipelines: (
     env: ContextEnvironment,
     config?: SidecarConfig,
-  ): AsyncPipelineDef[] => {
-    const getOptions = <T>(id: string, defaultOptions: T): T => {
-      if (config?.processorOptions && config.processorOptions[id]) {
-        // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-type-assertion
-        return {
-          ...defaultOptions,
-          ...(config.processorOptions[id].options as T),
-        };
-      }
-      return defaultOptions;
-    };
-
-    return [
-      {
-        name: 'Async Background GC',
-        triggers: ['nodes_aged_out'],
-        processors: [
-          createStateSnapshotAsyncProcessor(
-            'StateSnapshotAsync',
-            env,
-            getOptions('StateSnapshotAsync', { type: 'accumulate' }),
-          ),
-        ],
-      },
-    ];
-  },
+  ): AsyncPipelineDef[] => [
+    {
+      name: 'Async Background GC',
+      triggers: ['nodes_aged_out'],
+      processors: [
+        createStateSnapshotAsyncProcessor(
+          'StateSnapshotAsync',
+          env,
+          resolveProcessorOptions(config, 'StateSnapshotAsync', {
+            type: 'accumulate',
+          }),
+        ),
+      ],
+    },
+  ],
 };
diff --git a/packages/core/src/context/pipeline/orchestrator.ts b/packages/core/src/context/pipeline/orchestrator.ts
index 032ab31800..ee9a6f5e39 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/context/pipeline/orchestrator.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/context/pipeline/orchestrator.ts
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ export class PipelineOrchestrator {
   }
 
   private setupTriggers() {
-    const bindTriggers = (
-      pipelines: PipelineDef[] | AsyncPipelineDef[],
+    const bindTriggers = <P extends PipelineDef | AsyncPipelineDef>(
+      pipelines: P[],
       executeFn: (
-        pipeline: PipelineDef | AsyncPipelineDef,
+        pipeline: P,
         nodes: readonly ConcreteNode[],
         targets: ReadonlySet<string>,
         protectedIds: ReadonlySet<string>,
@@ -78,9 +78,8 @@ export class PipelineOrchestrator {
     };
 
     bindTriggers(this.pipelines, (pipeline, nodes, targets, protectedIds) => {
-      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-type-assertion
       void this.executePipelineAsync(
-        pipeline as PipelineDef,
+        pipeline,
         nodes,
         new Set(targets),
         new Set(protectedIds),