diff --git a/test/kohakuhub/api/repo/routers/test_crud.py b/test/kohakuhub/api/repo/routers/test_crud.py
index a245227..a71d86d 100644
--- a/test/kohakuhub/api/repo/routers/test_crud.py
+++ b/test/kohakuhub/api/repo/routers/test_crud.py
@@ -24,41 +24,6 @@ async def test_create_repository_and_reject_normalized_duplicate(owner_client):
     assert body["repo_id"] == "owner/sandbox-repo"
 
 
-async def test_create_repo_visibility_public_creates_public_repo(owner_client):
-    """``visibility="public"`` (huggingface_hub>=1.x shape with
-    ``private=False``) must round-trip as a public repo. Pairs with the
-    ``visibility="private"`` path covered through the live hf-client e2e
-    test in ``test_huggingface_hub_deep.py`` — together they exercise
-    both branches of the visibility resolver in ``crud.py`` so the
-    patch-coverage gate stays clean."""
-    response = await owner_client.post(
-        "/api/repos/create",
-        json={"type": "model", "name": "visibility-public-repo", "visibility": "public"},
-    )
-    assert response.status_code == 200
-    assert response.json()["repo_id"] == "owner/visibility-public-repo"
-
-    info = await owner_client.get("/api/models/owner/visibility-public-repo")
-    assert info.status_code == 200
-    assert info.json()["private"] is False
-
-
-async def test_create_repo_unknown_visibility_returns_400(owner_client):
-    """The resolver must reject visibility values it cannot map to a
-    private bool. Without this guard a typo like ``"hidden"`` would be
-    silently treated as public — masking client-side bugs and breaking
-    HF API symmetry with ``update_repo_settings``."""
-    response = await owner_client.post(
-        "/api/repos/create",
-        json={"type": "model", "name": "visibility-bogus-repo", "visibility": "hidden"},
-    )
-    assert response.status_code == 400
-    body = response.json()
-    error_text = body.get("detail", {}).get("error", "") if isinstance(body.get("detail"), dict) else str(body)
-    assert "visibility" in error_text.lower()
-    assert "public" in error_text and "private" in error_text
-
-
 async def test_admin_can_delete_empty_org_repository(admin_client, owner_client):
     create_response = await owner_client.post(
         "/api/repos/create",
diff --git a/test/kohakuhub/api/test_huggingface_hub_deep.py b/test/kohakuhub/api/test_huggingface_hub_deep.py
index 0118e75..c3b2a7f 100644
--- a/test/kohakuhub/api/test_huggingface_hub_deep.py
+++ b/test/kohakuhub/api/test_huggingface_hub_deep.py
@@ -836,6 +836,72 @@ async def test_create_repo_private_flag_is_honored_across_hf_versions(
         await _run(outsider_api.repo_info, repo_id)
 
 
+async def test_create_repo_private_false_round_trips_as_public(
+    live_server_url, hf_api_token
+):
+    """``HfApi.create_repo(repo_id, private=False)`` must produce a
+    public repo on every client version.
+
+    The two on-the-wire shapes are also asymmetric on the public side:
+
+    * ``huggingface_hub<1`` sends ``{"private": false}`` directly,
+      hitting the explicit-``private`` branch of the backend resolver.
+    * ``huggingface_hub>=1.x`` resolves ``private=False`` into
+      ``{"visibility": "public"}`` (see ``_resolve_repo_visibility`` in
+      ``hf_api.py``), hitting the ``visibility=="public"`` branch
+      instead.
+
+    Routing through the real client on the matrix exercises *both*
+    branches across the CI matrix — v0 cells cover ``private``
+    resolution and v1 cells cover ``visibility`` resolution — so a
+    regression in either branch surfaces here.
+    """
+    api = _api(live_server_url, hf_api_token)
+    repo_id = "owner/hf-deep-create-public"
+    await _run(api.create_repo, repo_id, private=False)
+
+    info = await _run(api.repo_info, repo_id)
+    assert info.private is False, (
+        "create_repo(private=False) produced a private repo — the "
+        "backend mis-resolved the public path. v0 sends 'private=False' "
+        "and v1 sends 'visibility=public'; both must collapse to public."
+    )
+
+
+async def test_create_repo_rejects_unknown_visibility_value(
+    live_server_url, hf_api_token
+):
+    """The visibility resolver must reject values it cannot map to a
+    private bool with a 400 (and a stable error message).
+
+    The real ``huggingface_hub`` client validates ``visibility``
+    client-side (``RepoVisibility_T = Literal["public", "private",
+    "protected"]`` in ``hf_api.py``) and refuses to send a typo like
+    ``"hidden"`` over the wire — so the only way to drive this
+    server-side branch is a direct HTTP request alongside the
+    hf-client e2e flow. Without this guard a typo would silently
+    produce a public repo, masking client-side bugs and breaking
+    symmetry with the same guard in ``update_repo_settings``.
+    """
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=10) as client:
+        response = await client.post(
+            f"{live_server_url}/api/repos/create",
+            json={
+                "type": "model",
+                "name": "hf-deep-create-bogus-visibility",
+                "visibility": "hidden",
+            },
+            headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {hf_api_token}"},
+        )
+
+    assert response.status_code == 400, response.text
+    body = response.json()
+    detail = body.get("detail") if isinstance(body, dict) else None
+    error_text = detail.get("error", "") if isinstance(detail, dict) else str(body)
+    assert "visibility" in error_text.lower()
+    assert "public" in error_text and "private" in error_text
+
+
 async def test_update_repo_settings_visibility_field_is_honored(
     live_server_url, hf_api_token
 ):