diff --git a/api/controllers/openapi/_models.py b/api/controllers/openapi/_models.py
index fb9ad080f0..7b481a76a2 100644
--- a/api/controllers/openapi/_models.py
+++ b/api/controllers/openapi/_models.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from typing import Any
+from typing import Any, Literal
 
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
 
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ class WorkflowRunData(BaseModel):
     id: str
     workflow_id: str
     status: str
-    outputs: dict[str, Any] = {}
+    outputs: dict[str, Any] = Field(default_factory=dict)
     error: str | None = None
     elapsed_time: float | None = None
     total_tokens: int | None = None
@@ -108,5 +108,5 @@ class WorkflowRunData(BaseModel):
 class WorkflowRunResponse(BaseModel):
     workflow_run_id: str
     task_id: str
-    mode: str = "workflow"  # echoed for CLI per-mode rendering — see endpoints.md L154
+    mode: Literal["workflow"] = "workflow"  # echoed for CLI per-mode rendering — see endpoints.md L154
     data: WorkflowRunData
diff --git a/api/tests/unit_tests/controllers/openapi/test_pagination_envelope.py b/api/tests/unit_tests/controllers/openapi/test_pagination_envelope.py
index f75d0f39bd..71d9282b41 100644
--- a/api/tests/unit_tests/controllers/openapi/test_pagination_envelope.py
+++ b/api/tests/unit_tests/controllers/openapi/test_pagination_envelope.py
@@ -116,3 +116,9 @@ def test_response_models_dump_per_mode():
         data=WorkflowRunData(id="r1", workflow_id="w1", status="succeeded"),
     )
     assert wf.model_dump(mode="json")["data"]["status"] == "succeeded"
+    assert wf.model_dump(mode="json")["mode"] == "workflow"
+    comp = CompletionMessageResponse(
+        event="message", task_id="t2", id="m2", message_id="m2",
+        mode="completion", answer="ok", created_at=0,
+    )
+    assert comp.model_dump(mode="json")["mode"] == "completion"