diff --git a/scripts/benchmark-profanity.mjs b/scripts/benchmark-profanity.mjs
index 8a4db31..5bc4631 100644
--- a/scripts/benchmark-profanity.mjs
+++ b/scripts/benchmark-profanity.mjs
@@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ function printResults(results) {
 const filter = createProfanityFilter();
 const scanner = createProfanityScanner({ filter });
 const input = (text) => ({ text, codePoints: Array.from(text) });
+const hintedEmptyInput = {
+  text: "",
+  codePoints: [],
+  hints: {
+    textLength: 0,
+    codePointLength: 0,
+    isEmpty: true,
+    hasAsciiOnly: true,
+    hasNonAscii: false,
+  },
+};
 
 printResults([
   bench(
@@ -58,6 +69,7 @@ printResults([
   bench("check loose match", () => filter.check(LOOSE_MATCH)),
   bench("check long late match", () => filter.check(LONG_LATE_MATCH)),
   bench("scanner check short clean", () => scanner.check(input(SHORT_CLEAN))),
+  bench("scanner check hinted empty", () => scanner.check(hintedEmptyInput)),
   bench("scanner check short match", () => scanner.check(input(SHORT_MATCH))),
   bench("scanner scan short match", () => scanner.scan(input(SHORT_MATCH))),
   bench("analyze short match", () => filter.analyze(SHORT_MATCH)),
diff --git a/src/scanner.ts b/src/scanner.ts
index c2c430e..d80576a 100644
--- a/src/scanner.ts
+++ b/src/scanner.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ export function createProfanityScanner(
 
   const scanner: ProfanityScanner = {
     name: PROFANITY_FILTER_NAME,
-    check: (input) => activeFilter.check(input.text, matchOptions),
+    check: (input) =>
+      allocationAware && input.hints?.textLength === 0
+        ? false
+        : activeFilter.check(input.text, matchOptions),
     scan,
   };
 
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
index fcd01b3..762e7fa 100644
--- a/src/types.ts
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -54,10 +54,26 @@ export interface ProfanityFilter extends ReadonlyProfanityFilter {
 export interface ProfanityScanInput {
   readonly text: string;
   readonly codePoints: readonly string[];
-  readonly hints?: {
-    readonly textLength?: number;
-    readonly hasNonAscii?: boolean;
-  };
+  readonly hints?: ProfanityScanHints;
+}
+
+export interface ProfanityScanHints {
+  readonly textLength?: number;
+  readonly codePointLength?: number;
+  readonly isEmpty?: boolean;
+  readonly hasAsciiOnly?: boolean;
+  readonly hasNonAscii?: boolean;
+  readonly hasDigit?: boolean;
+  readonly digitCount?: number;
+  readonly hasAsciiLetter?: boolean;
+  readonly hasWhitespace?: boolean;
+  readonly hasPunctuation?: boolean;
+  readonly punctuationCount?: number;
+  readonly hasAtSign?: boolean;
+  readonly hasDot?: boolean;
+  readonly hasSlash?: boolean;
+  readonly hasColon?: boolean;
+  readonly hasPlus?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface ProfanityScannerOptions {
diff --git a/tests/scanner.spec.ts b/tests/scanner.spec.ts
index bf99441..be2da0b 100644
--- a/tests/scanner.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/scanner.spec.ts
@@ -71,6 +71,21 @@ describe("profanity scanner adapter", () => {
     ).toBe(false);
   });
 
+  it("uses shared text-length hints to skip package-owned empty checks", () => {
+    const filter = createProfanityFilter(["alpha"], []);
+    const checkSpy = vi.spyOn(filter, "check");
+    const scanner = createProfanityScanner({ filter });
+
+    expect(
+      scanner.check({
+        text: "",
+        codePoints: [],
+        hints: { textLength: 0, hasNonAscii: false },
+      }),
+    ).toBe(false);
+    expect(checkSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
   it("streams ranges into a sink and supports early stop", () => {
     const filter = createProfanityFilter(["alpha", "beta"], []);
     const scanner = createProfanityScanner({ filter });
@@ -108,17 +123,26 @@ describe("profanity scanner adapter", () => {
     const analyze = vi.fn(() => [
       Object.assign([0, 5] as [number, number], { mode: "strict" as const }),
     ]);
+    const check = vi.fn(() => true);
     const scanner = createProfanityScanner({
       filter: {
         name: PROFANITY_FILTER_NAME,
         analyze,
-        check: () => true,
+        check,
         censor: (text) => String(text),
       },
     });
     const seen: TextCodePointRange[] = [];
 
     expect("allocationAware" in scanner).toBe(false);
+    expect(
+      scanner.check({
+        text: "",
+        codePoints: [],
+        hints: { textLength: 0, hasNonAscii: false },
+      }),
+    ).toBe(true);
+    expect(check).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
     expect(
       scanner.scan(
         { text: "alpha", codePoints: Array.from("alpha") },