diff --git a/app/assets/api/schemas_in.py b/app/assets/api/schemas_in.py
index 6f045d32f..b2e8eb34b 100644
--- a/app/assets/api/schemas_in.py
+++ b/app/assets/api/schemas_in.py
@@ -54,16 +54,11 @@ class ListAssetsQuery(BaseModel):
     exclude_tags: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
     name_contains: str | None = None
 
-    # Filter to assets whose content hash matches exactly. Param name is `hash`
-    # per the projected openapi.yaml listAssets contract (the response-body field
-    # is `asset_hash`; the query param is `hash`).
+    # Filter by exact content hash (emitted as `asset_hash` in responses)
     hash: str | None = None
 
-    # Declared for cloud/core contract parity. In core, reads are owner-scoped
-    # (owner_id == "") and there is no separate shared/public pool for this flag
-    # to include or exclude, so it is inert here and intentionally not threaded
-    # into the query. Accepted (not rejected) so the FE needs no isCloud branch;
-    # cloud enforces the flag in its own service layer.
+    # Accepted for API compatibility; has no effect, as there is no shared
+    # asset pool to include or exclude
     include_public: bool = True
 
     # Accept either a JSON string (query param) or a dict
@@ -101,12 +96,7 @@ class ListAssetsQuery(BaseModel):
     @field_validator("hash", mode="before")
     @classmethod
     def _normalize_hash(cls, v):
-        # Normalize for an exact match against stored hashes (which are
-        # lowercase `blake3:<hex>`). Liberal in what we accept — no pattern
-        # enforcement; a non-matching value simply yields an empty page.
-        # An explicitly-supplied-but-empty value (`?hash=`) stays `""` so it
-        # is treated as an exact-match miss (empty page), not silently dropped
-        # to "no filter" — omit the param entirely to disable the filter.
+        # Stored hashes are lowercase `blake3:<hex>`; no pattern is enforced
         if isinstance(v, str):
             return v.strip().lower()
         return v
diff --git a/app/assets/database/queries/asset_reference.py b/app/assets/database/queries/asset_reference.py
index 734777377..f3e978f28 100644
--- a/app/assets/database/queries/asset_reference.py
+++ b/app/assets/database/queries/asset_reference.py
@@ -294,8 +294,7 @@ def list_references_page(
         escaped, esc = escape_sql_like_string(name_contains)
         base = base.where(AssetReference.name.ilike(f"%{escaped}%", escape=esc))
 
-    # `is not None` (not truthiness): an explicit empty hash is an exact-match
-    # miss (empty page), while an omitted hash (None) disables the filter.
+    # Not truthiness: an empty hash matches nothing, an omitted one filters nothing
     if asset_hash is not None:
         base = base.where(Asset.hash == asset_hash)
 
diff --git a/tests-unit/assets_test/test_list_filter.py b/tests-unit/assets_test/test_list_filter.py
index c5e870137..dab0339b3 100644
--- a/tests-unit/assets_test/test_list_filter.py
+++ b/tests-unit/assets_test/test_list_filter.py
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ def test_list_assets_invalid_query_rejected(http: requests.Session, api_base: st
 
 def test_list_assets_display_name_emitted(http, api_base, asset_factory, make_asset_bytes):
     """`display_name` is emitted for every populated asset in list responses,
-    derived from the storage path (category prefix + hash-based stored filename)."""
+    derived from the storage path."""
     scope = f"lf-dispname-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:6]}"
     tags = ["models", "model_type:checkpoints", "unit-tests", scope]
     asset_factory("dn_a.safetensors", tags, {}, make_asset_bytes("dn_a", 700))
@@ -371,8 +371,7 @@ def test_list_assets_hash_filter_no_match(http, api_base, asset_factory, make_as
 def test_list_assets_hash_filter_normalizes_case_and_whitespace(
     http, api_base, asset_factory, make_asset_bytes
 ):
-    """`hash` is trimmed and lowercased before matching, so an upper-cased,
-    space-padded value still matches the stored lowercase hash."""
+    """An upper-cased, space-padded `hash` still matches the stored hash."""
     scope = f"lf-hashnorm-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:6]}"
     tags = ["models", "model_type:checkpoints", "unit-tests", scope]
     a = asset_factory("hnorm_a.safetensors", tags, {}, make_asset_bytes("hnorm_a", 1024))
@@ -396,8 +395,8 @@ def test_list_assets_hash_filter_normalizes_case_and_whitespace(
 def test_list_assets_hash_filter_empty_returns_empty_page(
     http, api_base, asset_factory, make_asset_bytes
 ):
-    """An explicitly-supplied but empty `hash` (`?hash=`) is an exact-match miss
-    and returns an empty page, rather than silently disabling the filter."""
+    """An empty `hash` matches nothing and returns an empty page, rather than
+    disabling the filter."""
     scope = f"lf-hashempty-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:6]}"
     tags = ["models", "model_type:checkpoints", "unit-tests", scope]
     asset_factory("he_a.safetensors", tags, {}, make_asset_bytes("he_a", 800))
@@ -414,8 +413,7 @@ def test_list_assets_hash_filter_empty_returns_empty_page(
 
 
 def test_list_assets_include_public_accepted(http, api_base, asset_factory, make_asset_bytes):
-    """`include_public` is accepted for contract parity; core results are always
-    the caller's own assets regardless of its value (the param is inert)."""
+    """`include_public` is accepted and does not change which assets come back."""
     scope = f"lf-incpub-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:6]}"
     tags = ["models", "model_type:checkpoints", "unit-tests", scope]
     a = asset_factory("ip_a.safetensors", tags, {}, make_asset_bytes("ip_a", 900))
@@ -429,7 +427,7 @@ def test_list_assets_include_public_accepted(http, api_base, asset_factory, make
         body = r.json()
         assert r.status_code == 200, body
         names = [x["name"] for x in body["assets"]]
-        assert a["name"] in names, f"caller's own asset must be returned (include_public={value})"
+        assert a["name"] in names, f"asset must be returned (include_public={value})"
 
 
 def test_list_assets_name_contains_literal_underscore(