The previous commit said a body omitting a `required` member "reaches the action" in production. That overreaches what was measured: MVC adds an implicit required check for non-nullable reference types (ErsatzTV.Core.Nullable has <Nullable>enable</Nullable>, and Startup configures no ApiBehaviorOptions, so the [ApiController] automatic 400 is live), which would very likely reject that body before the action. What is measured is the SERIALIZER: Newtonsoft deserializes it to a default, System.Text.Json throws. The prose in the test, ApiJsonSettings, the record and docs/testing.md now stops there and puts MVC model validation on the uncovered-wrapper list where it belongs. Decisions-Edit: yes Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015QqCpYFsKgnAnx6jVwrKiV