diff --git a/src/entities/Font/index.ts b/src/entities/Font/index.ts
index 938ecb0..d25188a 100644
--- a/src/entities/Font/index.ts
+++ b/src/entities/Font/index.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-export * from './api';
 export * from './domain';
 export * from './lib';
 export * from './ui';
@@ -8,6 +7,16 @@ export * from './ui';
 export * from './model/const/const';
 export * from './model/types';
 
+/*
+ * `./api` (proxy clients: `fetchProxyFonts`, `seedFontCache`, …) is intentionally
+ * NOT re-exported here. Those clients import `$shared/api/queryClient`, whose
+ * module eval runs `new QueryClient()` and loads `@tanstack/query-core`. Funneling
+ * them through this barrel made every consumer of `$entities/Font` — including
+ * pure-domain and type-only importers — eager-load TanStack and construct the
+ * client (notably in unit specs). Import API clients via the segment:
+ *   import { fetchProxyFonts } from '$entities/Font/api';
+ */
+
 /*
  * Stores (`fontCatalogStore`, `fontLifecycleManager`, `FontsByIdsStore`) are
  * intentionally NOT re-exported here. They instantiate module-level singletons
diff --git a/src/entities/Font/lib/errors/errors.ts b/src/entities/Font/lib/errors/errors.ts
index 4702c8a..0f057c2 100644
--- a/src/entities/Font/lib/errors/errors.ts
+++ b/src/entities/Font/lib/errors/errors.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { NonRetryableError } from '$shared/api/queryClient';
+import { NonRetryableError } from '$shared/api/nonRetryableError';
 
 /**
  * Thrown when the network request to the proxy API fails.
diff --git a/src/features/FilterAndSortFonts/api/filters/filters.ts b/src/features/FilterAndSortFonts/api/filters/filters.ts
index ef38be4..8e0e51e 100644
--- a/src/features/FilterAndSortFonts/api/filters/filters.ts
+++ b/src/features/FilterAndSortFonts/api/filters/filters.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 import { api } from '$shared/api/api';
 import { API_ENDPOINTS } from '$shared/api/endpoints';
-import { NonRetryableError } from '$shared/api/queryClient';
+import { NonRetryableError } from '$shared/api/nonRetryableError';
 
 const PROXY_API_URL = API_ENDPOINTS.filters;
 
diff --git a/src/shared/api/nonRetryableError.ts b/src/shared/api/nonRetryableError.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7ce5a3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/shared/api/nonRetryableError.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/**
+ * Marker base class for errors that retrying will never fix — schema-validation
+ * failures, unauthorized responses, contract violations, etc.
+ *
+ * The queryClient retry handler short-circuits when it sees this; without it,
+ * a non-transient backend bug pins the UI through the full retry budget
+ * (default 3× exponential backoff ≈ 7s).
+ *
+ * Lives in its own module — free of `@tanstack/query-core` — so error types that
+ * extend it (e.g. `FontResponseError`) can be imported without dragging the
+ * TanStack client and its eager `new QueryClient()` instantiation into the
+ * importer's module graph. See the barrel-coupling notes in the FSD audit.
+ */
+export class NonRetryableError extends Error {}
diff --git a/src/shared/api/queryClient.ts b/src/shared/api/queryClient.ts
index 8e18293..1e921e5 100644
--- a/src/shared/api/queryClient.ts
+++ b/src/shared/api/queryClient.ts
@@ -1,14 +1,5 @@
 import { QueryClient } from '@tanstack/query-core';
-
-/**
- * Marker base class for errors that retrying will never fix — schema-validation
- * failures, unauthorized responses, contract violations, etc.
- *
- * The queryClient retry handler short-circuits when it sees this; without it,
- * a non-transient backend bug pins the UI through the full retry budget
- * (default 3× exponential backoff ≈ 7s).
- */
-export class NonRetryableError extends Error {}
+import { NonRetryableError } from './nonRetryableError';
 
 /**
  * Data remains fresh for this long after fetch. Stores that override