diff --git a/python/packages/redis/agent_framework_redis/_history_provider.py b/python/packages/redis/agent_framework_redis/_history_provider.py
index a7703db8a2..518b394dfb 100644
--- a/python/packages/redis/agent_framework_redis/_history_provider.py
+++ b/python/packages/redis/agent_framework_redis/_history_provider.py
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from collections.abc import Sequence
-from typing import Any, ClassVar
+from collections.abc import Awaitable, Sequence
+from inspect import isawaitable
+from typing import Any, ClassVar, TypeVar, cast
 
 import redis.asyncio as redis
 from agent_framework import Message
@@ -19,6 +20,23 @@
 
 from ._feature_usage import FeatureIndex
 
+_T = TypeVar("_T")
+
+
+async def _redis_result(value: Awaitable[_T] | _T) -> _T:
+    """Await a redis-py command result that is annotated as the sync/async union.
+
+    Several redis-py commands are annotated as returning ``Awaitable[T] | T`` even on the asyncio
+    client, so awaiting them directly does not type-check. Newer redis-py releases narrow those
+    annotations to the awaitable alone, which makes a bare ``# type: ignore`` *required* on the
+    older annotations and *unnecessary* on the newer ones: no single ignore comment satisfies the
+    whole supported range. Normalising through this helper type-checks on every supported version
+    without an ignore comment.
+    """
+    if isawaitable(value):
+        return cast("_T", await value)
+    return cast("_T", value)
+
 
 class RedisHistoryProvider(HistoryProvider):
     """Redis-backed history provider using the new HistoryProvider hooks pattern.
@@ -129,11 +147,16 @@ async def get_messages(
         """
         mark_feature_used(FeatureIndex.REDIS)
         key = self._redis_key(session_id)
-        redis_messages: list[str] = await self._redis_client.lrange(key, 0, -1)  # type: ignore[misc]
+        # Older redis-py annotates ``lrange`` with a partially unknown type while newer releases
+        # type it precisely, so neither keeping nor dropping an ignore comment here is correct for
+        # the whole supported range. Going through an explicitly ``Any``-typed client makes the
+        # call site version-independent, and the cast pins the element type that
+        # ``decode_responses=True`` guarantees.
+        client: Any = self._redis_client
+        redis_messages = cast("list[str]", await _redis_result(client.lrange(key, 0, -1)))
         messages: list[Message] = []
-        if redis_messages:
-            for serialized in redis_messages:  # type: ignore[union-attr]
-                messages.append(Message.from_dict(self._deserialize_json(serialized)))  # type: ignore[union-attr]
+        for serialized in redis_messages:
+            messages.append(Message.from_dict(self._deserialize_json(serialized)))
         return messages
 
     async def save_messages(
@@ -161,13 +184,13 @@ async def save_messages(
 
         async with self._redis_client.pipeline(transaction=True) as pipe:
             for serialized in serialized_messages:
-                await pipe.rpush(key, serialized)  # type: ignore[misc]
+                await _redis_result(pipe.rpush(key, serialized))
             await pipe.execute()
 
         if self.max_messages is not None:
-            current_count = await self._redis_client.llen(key)  # type: ignore[misc]
+            current_count: int = await _redis_result(self._redis_client.llen(key))
             if current_count > self.max_messages:
-                await self._redis_client.ltrim(key, -self.max_messages, -1)  # type: ignore[misc]
+                await _redis_result(self._redis_client.ltrim(key, -self.max_messages, -1))
 
     @staticmethod
     def _serialize_json(message: Message) -> str:
diff --git a/python/packages/redis/tests/test_providers.py b/python/packages/redis/tests/test_providers.py
index 55aee29662..52de3878b8 100644
--- a/python/packages/redis/tests/test_providers.py
+++ b/python/packages/redis/tests/test_providers.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 from agent_framework_redis._context_provider import RedisContextProvider
 from agent_framework_redis._feature_usage import FeatureIndex
-from agent_framework_redis._history_provider import RedisHistoryProvider
+from agent_framework_redis._history_provider import RedisHistoryProvider, _redis_result
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Shared fixtures
@@ -451,6 +451,30 @@ async def test_empty_returns_empty(self, mock_redis_client: MagicMock):
         messages = await provider.get_messages("s1")
         assert messages == []
 
+    async def test_returns_messages_when_lrange_is_synchronous(self, mock_redis_client: MagicMock):
+        """redis-py types several commands as returning a value or an awaitable; handle both."""
+        msg = Message(role="user", contents=["Hello"])
+        mock_redis_client.lrange = MagicMock(return_value=[json.dumps(msg.to_dict())])
+
+        with patch("agent_framework_redis._history_provider.redis.from_url") as mock_from_url:
+            mock_from_url.return_value = mock_redis_client
+            provider = RedisHistoryProvider("mem", redis_url="redis://localhost:6379")
+
+        messages = await provider.get_messages("s1")
+        assert len(messages) == 1
+        assert messages[0].text == "Hello"
+
+
+class TestRedisResultHelper:
+    async def test_awaits_an_awaitable_result(self):
+        async def _coro() -> int:
+            return 7
+
+        assert await _redis_result(_coro()) == 7
+
+    async def test_passes_through_a_plain_result(self):
+        assert await _redis_result(7) == 7
+
 
 class TestRedisHistoryProviderSaveMessages:
     async def test_saves_serialized_messages(self, mock_redis_client: MagicMock):