diff --git a/apps/client/src/features/editor/components/page-embed/page-embed-ancestry-context.test.tsx b/apps/client/src/features/editor/components/page-embed/page-embed-ancestry-context.test.tsx
index 867922d2..42cdffb4 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/features/editor/components/page-embed/page-embed-ancestry-context.test.tsx
+++ b/apps/client/src/features/editor/components/page-embed/page-embed-ancestry-context.test.tsx
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ import { render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
 import {
   PageEmbedAncestryProvider,
   usePageEmbedAncestry,
-  isPageEmbedCycle,
-  isPageEmbedTooDeep,
-  PAGE_EMBED_MAX_DEPTH,
 } from "./page-embed-ancestry-context";
 
 /**
@@ -92,58 +89,3 @@ describe("PageEmbedAncestryProvider", () => {
     expect(probe.getAttribute("data-host")).toBe("late-host");
   });
 });
-
-describe("isPageEmbedCycle", () => {
-  it("is false when the source is not in the chain and is not the host", () => {
-    expect(isPageEmbedCycle(["a", "b"], "host", "c")).toBe(false);
-  });
-
-  it("is true when the source is already present in the ancestor chain", () => {
-    expect(isPageEmbedCycle(["a", "b", "c"], "host", "b")).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  it("is true for a top-level self-embed (host === source, empty chain)", () => {
-    expect(isPageEmbedCycle([], "self", "self")).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  it("is true when the source equals the host even mid-chain", () => {
-    expect(isPageEmbedCycle(["x"], "self", "self")).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  it("is false when there is no source id (nothing to embed yet)", () => {
-    expect(isPageEmbedCycle(["a"], "host", null)).toBe(false);
-    expect(isPageEmbedCycle([], "host", "")).toBe(false);
-  });
-
-  it("is false when host is null and source is not in the chain", () => {
-    expect(isPageEmbedCycle(["a", "b"], null, "c")).toBe(false);
-  });
-});
-
-describe("isPageEmbedTooDeep", () => {
-  it("is false below the max depth", () => {
-    expect(isPageEmbedTooDeep([])).toBe(false);
-    expect(
-      isPageEmbedTooDeep(new Array(PAGE_EMBED_MAX_DEPTH - 1).fill("x")),
-    ).toBe(false);
-  });
-
-  it("is true once the chain length reaches the max depth", () => {
-    expect(
-      isPageEmbedTooDeep(new Array(PAGE_EMBED_MAX_DEPTH).fill("x")),
-    ).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  it("is true when the chain length exceeds the max depth", () => {
-    expect(
-      isPageEmbedTooDeep(new Array(PAGE_EMBED_MAX_DEPTH + 3).fill("x")),
-    ).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  it("guards at exactly PAGE_EMBED_MAX_DEPTH (=5)", () => {
-    // Pin the documented constant so an accidental change is caught.
-    expect(PAGE_EMBED_MAX_DEPTH).toBe(5);
-    expect(isPageEmbedTooDeep(["1", "2", "3", "4"])).toBe(false);
-    expect(isPageEmbedTooDeep(["1", "2", "3", "4", "5"])).toBe(true);
-  });
-});
diff --git a/apps/client/src/features/editor/components/page-embed/page-embed-ancestry-context.tsx b/apps/client/src/features/editor/components/page-embed/page-embed-ancestry-context.tsx
index cdd7f109..c989ee21 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/features/editor/components/page-embed/page-embed-ancestry-context.tsx
+++ b/apps/client/src/features/editor/components/page-embed/page-embed-ancestry-context.tsx
@@ -51,26 +51,3 @@ export function PageEmbedAncestryProvider({
 export function usePageEmbedAncestry() {
   return useContext(PageEmbedAncestryContext);
 }
-
-/**
- * Pure cycle predicate used by the page-embed node view. Returns true when the
- * source page would recurse into itself: either it is already present in the
- * ancestor chain, or it is the host page (top-level self-embed). Extracted so
- * the anti-DoS guard can be unit-tested without mounting the Tiptap NodeView.
- */
-export function isPageEmbedCycle(
-  chain: string[],
-  hostPageId: string | null,
-  sourcePageId: string | null,
-): boolean {
-  if (!sourcePageId) return false;
-  return chain.includes(sourcePageId) || hostPageId === sourcePageId;
-}
-
-/**
- * Pure depth-limit predicate. Returns true once the ancestor chain has reached
- * the hard cap, before a deeper nested editor is mounted.
- */
-export function isPageEmbedTooDeep(chain: string[]): boolean {
-  return chain.length >= PAGE_EMBED_MAX_DEPTH;
-}