diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/python.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/python.ts
index e432a958ac..296a9c4047 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/python.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/python.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   unquoteLiteral,
   type LanguagePatterns,
 } from '../tree-sitter-scanner.js';
+import { normalizeExtractedRoutePath } from '../../../ingestion/route-extractors/route-path.js';
 import type { HttpDetection, HttpLanguagePlugin, RepoContext } from './types.js';
 
 /**
@@ -162,6 +163,26 @@ const INCLUDE_ROUTER_NAME_PATTERNS = compilePatterns({
   ],
 } satisfies LanguagePatterns<Record<string, never>>);
 
+const API_ROUTER_PREFIX_PATTERNS = compilePatterns({
+  name: 'python-fastapi-apirouter-prefix',
+  language: Python,
+  patterns: [
+    {
+      meta: {},
+      query: `
+        (assignment
+          left: (identifier) @router_name (#eq? @router_name "router")
+          right: (call
+            function: (identifier) @factory (#eq? @factory "APIRouter")
+            arguments: (argument_list
+              (keyword_argument
+                name: (identifier) @kw (#eq? @kw "prefix")
+                value: (string) @prefix))))
+      `,
+    },
+  ],
+} satisfies LanguagePatterns<Record<string, never>>);
+
 // `from .api.assistant import router` style — used together with
 // INCLUDE_ROUTER_NAME so we can map a local name back to its module
 // path, then back to the file the router was declared in.
@@ -905,10 +926,10 @@ function buildPythonRepoContext(
   const prefixesByLongKey = new Map<string, Set<string>>();
   const prefixesByShortKey = new Map<string, Set<string>>();
 
-  // Pre-pass over .py files. We deliberately run this even on files
-  // that don't contain `include_router` — the cost of an extra parse
-  // is bounded by the file count, and detecting `include_router`
-  // beforehand would require its own grep/scan.
+  // Cross-file pre-pass: only `include_router` sites need it — they bind a
+  // prefix declared in one file to a router defined in another. Same-file
+  // `APIRouter(prefix=...)` is resolved in scan() from the file's own tree, so
+  // APIRouter-only files are left out here and never parsed twice.
   for (const rel of files) {
     if (!rel.endsWith('.py')) continue;
     const src = readFile(rel);
@@ -1001,15 +1022,17 @@ function buildPythonRepoContext(
     }
   }
 
-  return { prefixesByLongKey, prefixesByShortKey };
+  return {
+    prefixesByLongKey,
+    prefixesByShortKey,
+  };
 }
 
 function joinPrefix(prefix: string, route: string): string {
-  // Mirror FastAPI's path joining: trim trailing slash off prefix,
-  // ensure exactly one leading slash on the result.
-  const p = prefix.replace(/\/+$/, '');
-  const r = route.startsWith('/') ? route : `/${route}`;
-  return `${p}${r}`;
+  // Delegate to the shared route-path normalizer so the group contract and the
+  // ingestion Route node join prefixes identically — one helper, no
+  // trailing-slash drift on empty routes (`APIRouter(prefix="/x")` + `@get("")`).
+  return normalizeExtractedRoutePath(route, prefix);
 }
 export const PYTHON_HTTP_PLUGIN: HttpLanguagePlugin = {
   name: 'python-http',
@@ -1071,6 +1094,18 @@ export const PYTHON_HTTP_PLUGIN: HttpLanguagePlugin = {
     // the ingestion route extractor), not a per-file source scan — see the note
     // at the top of this file.
 
+    // Same-file `router = APIRouter(prefix="/x")` (router-only). Read from this
+    // file's own tree, so there is no cross-file map and no prefix bleed across
+    // same-stem files; it stacks under any include_router(prefix=...) below.
+    let constructorPrefix: string | undefined;
+    for (const m of runCompiledPatterns(API_ROUTER_PREFIX_PATTERNS, tree)) {
+      const prefixNode = m.captures.prefix;
+      if (!prefixNode) continue;
+      const p = unquoteLiteral(prefixNode.text);
+      if (p === null) continue;
+      constructorPrefix = p;
+    }
+
     // Providers: FastAPI @router.<verb>("/path") — must be joined
     // with the prefix(es) declared at the include_router site. When
     // no prefix is found we still emit the unprefixed path so this
@@ -1095,10 +1130,13 @@ export const PYTHON_HTTP_PLUGIN: HttpLanguagePlugin = {
       const shortPrefixes =
         longPrefixes || !shortKey ? undefined : ctx?.prefixesByShortKey.get(shortKey);
       const prefixSet = longPrefixes ?? shortPrefixes;
+      // Stack the same-file APIRouter(prefix=...) under any cross-file
+      // include_router prefix.
+      const localPath = constructorPrefix ? joinPrefix(constructorPrefix, rawPath) : rawPath;
       const paths =
         prefixSet && prefixSet.size > 0
-          ? [...prefixSet].map((p) => joinPrefix(p, rawPath))
-          : [rawPath];
+          ? [...prefixSet].map((p) => joinPrefix(p, localPath))
+          : [localPath];
 
       for (const p of paths) {
         out.push({
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/parsing-processor.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/parsing-processor.ts
index d1a4710e9a..51b9a62be6 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/parsing-processor.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/parsing-processor.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import type {
   FetchWrapperDef,
 } from './workers/parse-worker.js';
 import type {
+  ExtractedRouterConstructorPrefix,
   ExtractedRouterImport,
   ExtractedRouterInclude,
   ExtractedRouterModuleAlias,
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ export interface WorkerExtractedData {
   decoratorRoutes: ExtractedDecoratorRoute[];
   routerIncludes: ExtractedRouterInclude[];
   routerImports: ExtractedRouterImport[];
+  routerConstructorPrefixes: ExtractedRouterConstructorPrefix[];
   routerModuleAliases: ExtractedRouterModuleAlias[];
   toolDefs: ExtractedToolDef[];
   ormQueries: ExtractedORMQuery[];
@@ -80,6 +82,7 @@ export const mergeChunkResults = (
   const allDecoratorRoutes: ExtractedDecoratorRoute[] = [];
   const allRouterIncludes: ExtractedRouterInclude[] = [];
   const allRouterImports: ExtractedRouterImport[] = [];
+  const allRouterConstructorPrefixes: ExtractedRouterConstructorPrefix[] = [];
   const allRouterModuleAliases: ExtractedRouterModuleAlias[] = [];
   const allSpringTypes: SharedSpringType[] = [];
   const allToolDefs: ExtractedToolDef[] = [];
@@ -123,6 +126,9 @@ export const mergeChunkResults = (
     for (const item of result.decoratorRoutes) allDecoratorRoutes.push(item);
     for (const item of result.routerIncludes ?? []) allRouterIncludes.push(item);
     for (const item of result.routerImports ?? []) allRouterImports.push(item);
+    for (const item of result.routerConstructorPrefixes ?? []) {
+      allRouterConstructorPrefixes.push(item);
+    }
     for (const item of result.routerModuleAliases ?? []) allRouterModuleAliases.push(item);
     for (const item of result.springTypes ?? []) allSpringTypes.push(item);
     for (const item of result.toolDefs) allToolDefs.push(item);
@@ -139,6 +145,7 @@ export const mergeChunkResults = (
     decoratorRoutes: allDecoratorRoutes,
     routerIncludes: allRouterIncludes,
     routerImports: allRouterImports,
+    routerConstructorPrefixes: allRouterConstructorPrefixes,
     routerModuleAliases: allRouterModuleAliases,
     toolDefs: allToolDefs,
     ormQueries: allORMQueries,
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/parse-impl.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/parse-impl.ts
index f67e6e7214..618a6fc47a 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/parse-impl.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/parse-impl.ts
@@ -76,10 +76,12 @@ import type {
   FetchWrapperDef,
 } from '../workers/parse-worker.js';
 import type {
+  ExtractedRouterConstructorPrefix,
   ExtractedRouterImport,
   ExtractedRouterInclude,
   ExtractedRouterModuleAlias,
 } from '../route-extractors/fastapi-router-bindings.js';
+import { normalizeExtractedRoutePath } from '../route-extractors/route-path.js';
 import {
   resolveInheritedSpringRoutes,
   type SharedSpringType,
@@ -623,6 +625,7 @@ export async function runChunkedParseAndResolve(
   const allDecoratorRoutes: ExtractedDecoratorRoute[] = [];
   const allRouterIncludes: ExtractedRouterInclude[] = [];
   const allRouterImports: ExtractedRouterImport[] = [];
+  const allRouterConstructorPrefixes: ExtractedRouterConstructorPrefix[] = [];
   const allRouterModuleAliases: ExtractedRouterModuleAlias[] = [];
   const allSpringTypes: SharedSpringType[] = [];
   const allToolDefs: ExtractedToolDef[] = [];
@@ -779,6 +782,11 @@ export async function runChunkedParseAndResolve(
         if (chunkWorkerData.routerImports?.length) {
           for (const item of chunkWorkerData.routerImports) allRouterImports.push(item);
         }
+        if (chunkWorkerData.routerConstructorPrefixes?.length) {
+          for (const item of chunkWorkerData.routerConstructorPrefixes) {
+            allRouterConstructorPrefixes.push(item);
+          }
+        }
         if (chunkWorkerData.routerModuleAliases?.length) {
           for (const item of chunkWorkerData.routerModuleAliases) allRouterModuleAliases.push(item);
         }
@@ -1156,7 +1164,10 @@ export async function runChunkedParseAndResolve(
   // decorator inherits its file-basename's prefix. When a router is mounted
   // under multiple prefixes we duplicate the route entry, mirroring FastAPI's
   // runtime behaviour.
-  if (allRouterIncludes.length > 0 && allDecoratorRoutes.length > 0) {
+  if (
+    (allRouterIncludes.length > 0 || allRouterConstructorPrefixes.length > 0) &&
+    allDecoratorRoutes.length > 0
+  ) {
     // Group `routerImports` by file so we can resolve Shape-B locals against
     // imports declared in the SAME file as the include_router call. We carry
     // both the short module key (file basename) and, when available, the long
@@ -1201,6 +1212,11 @@ export async function runChunkedParseAndResolve(
     // without a corresponding import statement).
     const prefixesByLongKey = new Map<string, Set<string>>();
     const prefixesByShortKey = new Map<string, Set<string>>();
+    // Constructor prefixes are `router`-only (the apply gate below and the
+    // group-layer tree-sitter both pin to the literal name `router`), so a
+    // flat file-key → prefix map suffices — mirrors the group layer's shape.
+    const constructorPrefixesByLongKey = new Map<string, string>();
+    const constructorPrefixesByShortKey = new Map<string, string>();
 
     const recordPrefix = (target: Map<string, Set<string>>, key: string, prefix: string): void => {
       let set = target.get(key);
@@ -1241,7 +1257,11 @@ export async function runChunkedParseAndResolve(
       }
     }
 
-    if (prefixesByLongKey.size > 0 || prefixesByShortKey.size > 0) {
+    if (
+      prefixesByLongKey.size > 0 ||
+      prefixesByShortKey.size > 0 ||
+      allRouterConstructorPrefixes.length > 0
+    ) {
       const fileLongKey = (rel: string): string => {
         // Strip `.py`, then take the last two path segments. `api/users.py`
         // → `api/users`. Files at the repo root return the empty string,
@@ -1263,6 +1283,15 @@ export async function runChunkedParseAndResolve(
         return file.endsWith('.py') ? file.slice(0, -3) : file;
       };
 
+      for (const ctor of allRouterConstructorPrefixes) {
+        const longKey = fileLongKey(ctor.filePath);
+        if (longKey) {
+          constructorPrefixesByLongKey.set(longKey, ctor.prefix);
+        } else {
+          constructorPrefixesByShortKey.set(fileShortKey(ctor.filePath), ctor.prefix);
+        }
+      }
+
       const expanded: ExtractedDecoratorRoute[] = [];
       for (const dr of allDecoratorRoutes) {
         if (dr.decoratorReceiver !== 'router' || !dr.filePath.endsWith('.py')) {
@@ -1278,12 +1307,24 @@ export async function runChunkedParseAndResolve(
           ? undefined
           : prefixesByShortKey.get(fileShortKey(dr.filePath));
         const prefixes = longPrefixes ?? shortPrefixes;
+        // Constructor prefixes are keyed like include_router prefixes:
+        // long-key entries are precise, while short-key entries are only
+        // valid for repo-root/single-segment files where `fileLongKey`
+        // returns ''. Do not fall back from a missing long-key match to the
+        // short key or a root `users.py` prefix can leak onto
+        // `admin/users.py`.
+        const constructorPrefix = longKey
+          ? constructorPrefixesByLongKey.get(longKey)
+          : constructorPrefixesByShortKey.get(fileShortKey(dr.filePath));
+        const routePath = constructorPrefix
+          ? normalizeExtractedRoutePath(dr.routePath, constructorPrefix)
+          : dr.routePath;
         if (!prefixes || prefixes.size === 0) {
-          expanded.push(dr);
+          expanded.push(routePath === dr.routePath ? dr : { ...dr, routePath });
           continue;
         }
         for (const prefix of prefixes) {
-          expanded.push({ ...dr, prefix });
+          expanded.push({ ...dr, routePath, prefix });
         }
       }
       allDecoratorRoutes.length = 0;
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/fastapi-router-bindings.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/fastapi-router-bindings.ts
index 34e2ded046..028f19f4ba 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/fastapi-router-bindings.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/fastapi-router-bindings.ts
@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ export interface ExtractedRouterModuleAlias {
   moduleKeyLong: string;
 }
 
+export interface ExtractedRouterConstructorPrefix {
+  filePath: string;
+  prefix: string;
+}
+
 // `<host>.include_router(<module>.router, ..., prefix='/x')` (Shape A).
 // `<host>` is left unrestricted — common production names include
 // `app`, `api`, `application`, `asgi_app`. Pinning to the literal
@@ -122,6 +127,8 @@ const INCLUDE_ROUTER_NAME_RE =
 // The latter is the common case and the only one we can map back to
 // a module stem.
 const FROM_IMPORT_ROUTER_RE = /^\s*from\s+(\.+|\.*[A-Za-z_][\w.]*)\s+import\s+([^#\n]+)/gm;
+const API_ROUTER_ASSIGN_RE = /\brouter\s*=\s*APIRouter\s*\(/g;
+const API_ROUTER_PREFIX_ARG_RE = /\bprefix\s*=\s*(['"])([^'"]*)\1/;
 
 /**
  * Last `.`-separated segment of a (possibly relative) Python module
@@ -157,6 +164,35 @@ export function lastTwoSegmentsAsPath(text: string): string {
   return `${parent}/${stem}`;
 }
 
+function findMatchingParen(content: string, openIndex: number): number {
+  let depth = 0;
+  let quote: string | null = null;
+  for (let i = openIndex; i < content.length; i++) {
+    const ch = content[i];
+    if (quote) {
+      if (ch === '\\') {
+        i++;
+        continue;
+      }
+      if (ch === quote) quote = null;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (ch === '"' || ch === "'") {
+      quote = ch;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (ch === '(' || ch === '[' || ch === '{') {
+      depth++;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (ch === ')' || ch === ']' || ch === '}') {
+      depth--;
+      if (depth === 0 && ch === ')') return i;
+    }
+  }
+  return -1;
+}
+
 /**
  * Scan a single Python file's source text for FastAPI router
  * `include_router` sites and `from <module> import router` imports,
@@ -176,6 +212,7 @@ export function extractFastAPIRouterBindings(
   outIncludes: ExtractedRouterInclude[],
   outImports: ExtractedRouterImport[],
   outModuleAliases?: ExtractedRouterModuleAlias[],
+  outConstructorPrefixes?: ExtractedRouterConstructorPrefix[],
 ): void {
   if (!content.includes('include_router') && !content.includes('router')) return;
 
@@ -239,6 +276,24 @@ export function extractFastAPIRouterBindings(
     }
   }
 
+  if (outConstructorPrefixes && content.includes('APIRouter') && content.includes('prefix')) {
+    API_ROUTER_ASSIGN_RE.lastIndex = 0;
+    // Only `router = APIRouter(...)` is captured (the apply gate and the
+    // group-layer tree-sitter both pin to the literal name `router`).
+    while (API_ROUTER_ASSIGN_RE.exec(content) !== null) {
+      const openParen = API_ROUTER_ASSIGN_RE.lastIndex - 1;
+      const closeParen = findMatchingParen(content, openParen);
+      if (closeParen < 0) continue;
+      const args = content.slice(openParen + 1, closeParen);
+      const prefixMatch = API_ROUTER_PREFIX_ARG_RE.exec(args);
+      if (!prefixMatch) continue;
+      outConstructorPrefixes.push({
+        filePath,
+        prefix: prefixMatch[2],
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
   if (!content.includes('include_router')) return;
 
   // Shape A: `<host>.include_router(<module>.router, prefix='/x')`.
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
index 9acf347eea..adf3a0db71 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import { postResultCloneSafe } from './post-result.js';
 import { mergeResult } from './result-merge.js';
 import type { SymbolTableReader } from '../model/symbol-table.js';
 import type {
+  ExtractedRouterConstructorPrefix,
   ExtractedRouterInclude,
   ExtractedRouterImport,
   ExtractedRouterModuleAlias,
@@ -394,6 +395,7 @@ export interface ParseWorkerResult {
   decoratorRoutes: ExtractedDecoratorRoute[];
   routerIncludes: ExtractedRouterInclude[];
   routerImports: ExtractedRouterImport[];
+  routerConstructorPrefixes?: ExtractedRouterConstructorPrefix[];
   /**
    * Optional. Project-wide `SharedSpringType` view of route-defining
    * class/interface declarations, produced by the provider's
@@ -906,6 +908,7 @@ const processBatch = (
     decoratorRoutes: [],
     routerIncludes: [],
     routerImports: [],
+    routerConstructorPrefixes: [],
     routerModuleAliases: [],
     toolDefs: [],
     ormQueries: [],
@@ -2423,6 +2426,7 @@ const processFileGroup = (
         result.routerIncludes,
         result.routerImports,
         (result.routerModuleAliases ??= []),
+        (result.routerConstructorPrefixes ??= []),
       );
     }
 
@@ -2475,6 +2479,7 @@ let accumulated: ParseWorkerResult = {
   decoratorRoutes: [],
   routerIncludes: [],
   routerImports: [],
+  routerConstructorPrefixes: [],
   routerModuleAliases: [],
   toolDefs: [],
   ormQueries: [],
@@ -2615,6 +2620,7 @@ parentPort!.on('message', (msg: WorkerIncomingMessage) => {
         decoratorRoutes: [],
         routerIncludes: [],
         routerImports: [],
+        routerConstructorPrefixes: [],
         routerModuleAliases: [],
         toolDefs: [],
         ormQueries: [],
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/result-merge.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/result-merge.ts
index 33a4f29393..948c44b4ad 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/result-merge.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/result-merge.ts
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ export const mergeResult = (target: ParseWorkerResult, src: ParseWorkerResult):
   appendAll(target.decoratorRoutes, src.decoratorRoutes);
   if (src.routerIncludes) appendAll(target.routerIncludes, src.routerIncludes);
   if (src.routerImports) appendAll(target.routerImports, src.routerImports);
+  if (src.routerConstructorPrefixes) {
+    target.routerConstructorPrefixes ??= [];
+    appendAll(target.routerConstructorPrefixes, src.routerConstructorPrefixes);
+  }
   if (src.routerModuleAliases) {
     target.routerModuleAliases ??= [];
     appendAll(target.routerModuleAliases, src.routerModuleAliases);
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
index 9d2f93fc3f..a896f2964e 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ import type { ParseWorkerResult } from '../core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.j
 // the main thread (the #1983 OOM). Because the two stores share this version,
 // any future change to the `ParsedFile` serialization shape MUST bump
 // SCHEMA_BUMP so both invalidate in lockstep.
-const SCHEMA_BUMP = 8; // #2288: ParseWorkerResult gained `springTypes` (Spring interface-inheritance) + `decoratorRoutes` semantics changed (interface routes suppressed at extraction, inherited routes appended in parse-impl)
+const SCHEMA_BUMP = 9; // #2312: ParseWorkerResult gained `routerConstructorPrefixes` for FastAPI APIRouter(prefix=...) replay
 const GITNEXUS_PKG_VERSION = (() => {
   try {
     // package.json sits at gitnexus/package.json — two levels up from
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/api/items.py b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/api/items.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0a045098e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/api/items.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends
+
+
+def get_db():
+    return None
+
+
+# Router-level dependency listed BEFORE `prefix=` — exercises the
+# balanced-paren scan end-to-end. The old `[^)]*?` regex stopped at the
+# `)` of `Depends(...)` and dropped the prefix, leaving the Route node
+# unprefixed; this route must still resolve to `/v1/items/{item_id}`.
+router = APIRouter(dependencies=[Depends(get_db)], prefix="/items")
+
+
+@router.get("/{item_id}")
+def get_item(item_id: str):
+    return {"id": item_id}
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/local.py b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/local.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..68b1722521
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/local.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+from fastapi import APIRouter
+
+router = APIRouter(prefix="/local")
+
+
+@router.get("")
+def list_local():
+    return []
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/main.py b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/main.py
index 8bdffcf6a6..0c78784bad 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/main.py
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/main.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from fastapi import FastAPI
+from api import items
 from api import users
 from api.calls import router as calls_router
 from .relative import router as rel_router
@@ -8,6 +9,7 @@ from .relative import router as rel_router
 # tree-sitter pattern. Pinning to literal `app` would silently drop
 # every prefix here.
 application = FastAPI()
+application.include_router(items.router, prefix="/v1")
 application.include_router(users.router, prefix="/users", tags=["users"])
 application.include_router(calls_router, prefix="/calls")
 application.include_router(rel_router, prefix="/rel")
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/users.py b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/users.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d33d1c71f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/users.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+from fastapi import APIRouter
+
+router = APIRouter(prefix="/root-users")
+
+
+@router.get("/landing")
+def root_users_landing():
+    return {}
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/integration/fastapi-prefix-pipeline.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/integration/fastapi-prefix-pipeline.test.ts
index 7c766a4fb7..9c642f79df 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/integration/fastapi-prefix-pipeline.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/integration/fastapi-prefix-pipeline.test.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@
  *    ingestion regex. The group-layer counterpart is pinned by the
  *    `non-app host` cases in `http-route-extractor.test.ts`.
  *
+ * 5. **Same-file `APIRouter(prefix=…)`** is applied to `@router`
+ *    decorators, and stacks with an outer `include_router(prefix=…)`.
+ *
+ * 6. **Root-file constructor prefixes do not bleed into nested same-stem
+ *    files.** A repo-root `users.py` can use `APIRouter(prefix=…)`, but
+ *    `admin/users.py` must not inherit that constructor prefix.
+ *
  * The fixture lives at `test/fixtures/fastapi-prefix-app/` so the
  * pipeline can scan a real on-disk repo (mirroring how `gitnexus
  * analyze` is used in production) and so reviewers can inspect the
@@ -96,6 +103,24 @@ describe('FastAPI include_router(prefix=…) — ingestion pipeline', () => {
     expect(names).toContain('/rel/info');
   });
 
+  it('joins same-file APIRouter(prefix=…) with router decorator paths', () => {
+    const names = routeNames();
+    expect(names).toContain('/local');
+    expect(names).toContain('/root-users/landing');
+    expect(names.filter((n) => n === '/')).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it('stacks same-file APIRouter(prefix=…) with include_router(prefix=…)', () => {
+    // api/items.py declares `APIRouter(dependencies=[Depends(get_db)], prefix="/items")`
+    // — a router-level dependency BEFORE prefix=. This pins the balanced-paren
+    // scan end-to-end: the old `[^)]*?` regex stopped at the `)` of `Depends(...)`
+    // and dropped `/items`, leaving the graph Route node at `/v1/{item_id}`.
+    const names = routeNames();
+    expect(names).toContain('/v1/items/{item_id}');
+    expect(names.filter((n) => n === '/items/{item_id}')).toHaveLength(0);
+    expect(names.filter((n) => n === '/v1/{item_id}')).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
   it('does NOT bleed `/users` prefix onto the same-name `admin/users.py`', () => {
     // FINDING 3: `api/users.py` and `admin/users.py` collide on the
     // short module key `users`. main.py only mounts the `api/users`
@@ -106,6 +131,13 @@ describe('FastAPI include_router(prefix=…) — ingestion pipeline', () => {
     expect(names.filter((n) => n === '/users/audit')).toHaveLength(0);
   });
 
+  it('does NOT bleed root same-file APIRouter(prefix=…) onto nested same-stem files', () => {
+    const names = routeNames();
+    expect(names).toContain('/root-users/landing');
+    expect(names).toContain('/audit');
+    expect(names.filter((n) => n === '/root-users/audit')).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
   it('emits exactly one Route node per (router method, prefix) pair', () => {
     // Defence-in-depth: counts the unique route nodes for the
     // prefixed routes to make sure the duplication path in
@@ -118,6 +150,8 @@ describe('FastAPI include_router(prefix=…) — ingestion pipeline', () => {
     expect(counts.get('/users/create')).toBe(1);
     expect(counts.get('/calls/list')).toBe(1);
     expect(counts.get('/rel/info')).toBe(1);
+    expect(counts.get('/local')).toBe(1);
+    expect(counts.get('/v1/items/{item_id}')).toBe(1);
     expect(counts.get('/audit')).toBe(1);
   });
 });
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/fastapi-router-bindings.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/fastapi-router-bindings.test.ts
index 504273440e..3edbf94819 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/fastapi-router-bindings.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/fastapi-router-bindings.test.ts
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ import {
   extractFastAPIRouterBindings,
   lastDottedSegment,
   lastTwoSegmentsAsPath,
+  type ExtractedRouterConstructorPrefix,
   type ExtractedRouterInclude,
   type ExtractedRouterImport,
+  type ExtractedRouterModuleAlias,
 } from '../../src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/fastapi-router-bindings.js';
 
 function run(filePath: string, content: string) {
@@ -40,6 +42,22 @@ function run(filePath: string, content: string) {
   return { includes, imports };
 }
 
+function runFull(filePath: string, content: string) {
+  const includes: ExtractedRouterInclude[] = [];
+  const imports: ExtractedRouterImport[] = [];
+  const moduleAliases: ExtractedRouterModuleAlias[] = [];
+  const constructorPrefixes: ExtractedRouterConstructorPrefix[] = [];
+  extractFastAPIRouterBindings(
+    filePath,
+    content,
+    includes,
+    imports,
+    moduleAliases,
+    constructorPrefixes,
+  );
+  return { includes, imports, moduleAliases, constructorPrefixes };
+}
+
 describe('lastDottedSegment', () => {
   it('returns the last segment of an absolute dotted path', () => {
     expect(lastDottedSegment('api.users')).toBe('users');
@@ -285,3 +303,56 @@ describe('extractFastAPIRouterBindings — negative cases', () => {
     expect(imports[0].moduleKey).toBe('users');
   });
 });
+
+describe('extractFastAPIRouterBindings — APIRouter constructor prefix', () => {
+  it('captures same-file APIRouter(prefix=...) declarations', () => {
+    const { constructorPrefixes } = runFull(
+      'api/items.py',
+      [
+        'from fastapi import APIRouter',
+        'router = APIRouter(prefix="/api/items", tags=["items"])',
+        '',
+        '@router.get("")',
+        'def list_items():',
+        '    return []',
+        '',
+      ].join('\n'),
+    );
+
+    expect(constructorPrefixes).toEqual([{ filePath: 'api/items.py', prefix: '/api/items' }]);
+  });
+
+  it('captures prefix after nested APIRouter arguments', () => {
+    const { constructorPrefixes } = runFull(
+      'api/items.py',
+      [
+        'from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends',
+        'router = APIRouter(dependencies=[Depends(get_db)], prefix="/api/items")',
+        '',
+        '@router.get("")',
+        'def list_items():',
+        '    return []',
+        '',
+      ].join('\n'),
+    );
+
+    expect(constructorPrefixes).toEqual([{ filePath: 'api/items.py', prefix: '/api/items' }]);
+  });
+
+  it('does not emit constructor prefixes for non-router receivers yet', () => {
+    const { constructorPrefixes } = runFull(
+      'api/items.py',
+      [
+        'from fastapi import APIRouter',
+        'api_router = APIRouter(prefix="/api")',
+        '',
+        '@api_router.get("/items")',
+        'def list_items():',
+        '    return []',
+        '',
+      ].join('\n'),
+    );
+
+    expect(constructorPrefixes).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/group/http-route-extractor.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/group/http-route-extractor.test.ts
index 99c5b1b0a4..e38e5cf167 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/group/http-route-extractor.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/group/http-route-extractor.test.ts
@@ -6969,6 +6969,124 @@ async def concurrent():
       expect(providers.find((c) => c.contractId === 'http::GET::/ai/concurrent')).toBeDefined();
     });
 
+    it('joins FastAPI @router.<verb> path with APIRouter(prefix=...) in the same file', async () => {
+      const dir = path.join(tmpDir, 'fastapi-router-constructor-prefix');
+      fs.mkdirSync(path.join(dir, 'api'), { recursive: true });
+      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'main.py'), `app = None\n`);
+      fs.writeFileSync(
+        path.join(dir, 'api/items.py'),
+        `from fastapi import APIRouter
+router = APIRouter(prefix="/api/items", tags=["items"])
+
+@router.get("")
+async def list_items():
+    return []
+
+@router.post("/{item_id}")
+async def update_item(item_id: str):
+    return {}
+`,
+      );
+
+      const contracts = await extractor.extract(null, dir, makeRepo(dir));
+      const providers = contracts.filter((c) => c.role === 'provider');
+
+      expect(providers.find((c) => c.contractId === 'http::GET::/api/items')).toBeDefined();
+      expect(
+        providers.find((c) => c.contractId === 'http::POST::/api/items/{param}'),
+      ).toBeDefined();
+      expect(providers.find((c) => c.contractId === 'http::GET::/')).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(providers.find((c) => c.contractId === 'http::POST::/{param}')).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
+    it('treats an empty APIRouter(prefix="") as no prefix', async () => {
+      const dir = path.join(tmpDir, 'fastapi-router-empty-prefix');
+      fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
+      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'main.py'), `app = None\n`);
+      fs.writeFileSync(
+        path.join(dir, 'items.py'),
+        `from fastapi import APIRouter
+router = APIRouter(prefix="")
+
+@router.get("/list")
+async def list_items():
+    return []
+`,
+      );
+
+      const contracts = await extractor.extract(null, dir, makeRepo(dir));
+      const providers = contracts.filter((c) => c.role === 'provider');
+
+      // Empty prefix is a clean no-op — the route keeps its bare decorator path.
+      expect(providers.find((c) => c.contractId === 'http::GET::/list')).toBeDefined();
+    });
+
+    it('does not bleed root APIRouter(prefix=...) onto nested same-stem files', async () => {
+      const dir = path.join(tmpDir, 'fastapi-router-constructor-prefix-no-bleed');
+      fs.mkdirSync(path.join(dir, 'admin'), { recursive: true });
+      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(dir, 'main.py'), `app = None\n`);
+      fs.writeFileSync(
+        path.join(dir, 'users.py'),
+        `from fastapi import APIRouter
+router = APIRouter(prefix="/root-users")
+
+@router.get("/landing")
+async def root_users_landing():
+    return {}
+`,
+      );
+      fs.writeFileSync(
+        path.join(dir, 'admin/users.py'),
+        `from fastapi import APIRouter
+router = APIRouter()
+
+@router.get("/audit")
+async def audit():
+    return {}
+`,
+      );
+
+      const contracts = await extractor.extract(null, dir, makeRepo(dir));
+      const providers = contracts.filter((c) => c.role === 'provider');
+
+      expect(
+        providers.find((c) => c.contractId === 'http::GET::/root-users/landing'),
+      ).toBeDefined();
+      expect(providers.find((c) => c.contractId === 'http::GET::/audit')).toBeDefined();
+      expect(
+        providers.find((c) => c.contractId === 'http::GET::/root-users/audit'),
+      ).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
+    it('stacks FastAPI APIRouter(prefix=...) with include_router(prefix=...)', async () => {
+      const dir = path.join(tmpDir, 'fastapi-router-stacked-prefix');
+      fs.mkdirSync(path.join(dir, 'api'), { recursive: true });
+      fs.writeFileSync(
+        path.join(dir, 'main.py'),
+        `from fastapi import FastAPI
+from api import items
+app = FastAPI()
+app.include_router(items.router, prefix="/v1")
+`,
+      );
+      fs.writeFileSync(
+        path.join(dir, 'api/items.py'),
+        `from fastapi import APIRouter
+router = APIRouter(prefix="/items")
+
+@router.get("/{item_id}")
+async def get_item(item_id: str):
+    return {}
+`,
+      );
+
+      const contracts = await extractor.extract(null, dir, makeRepo(dir));
+      const providers = contracts.filter((c) => c.role === 'provider');
+
+      expect(providers.find((c) => c.contractId === 'http::GET::/v1/items/{param}')).toBeDefined();
+      expect(providers.find((c) => c.contractId === 'http::GET::/items/{param}')).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
     it('emits @router.<verb> path unmodified when no include_router prefix is configured', async () => {
       const dir = path.join(tmpDir, 'fastapi-router-no-prefix');
       fs.mkdirSync(path.join(dir, 'api'), { recursive: true });