diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/java.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/java.ts
index 0df914d40..081b71805 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/java.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/java.ts
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import {
 import {
   extractJavaModuleConstants,
   foldJavaOperands,
+  isJavaConstantFile,
   parseJavaConstOperands,
   type RepoConstants,
 } from '../../../ingestion/route-extractors/java-const-resolver.js';
@@ -171,6 +172,19 @@ const JAVA_ROUTE_ANNOTATION_PATTERNS = compilePatterns({
                     key: (identifier) @key
                     value: [(string_literal) @value (element_value_array_initializer (string_literal) @value)]))))
             name: (identifier) @member) @node
+          (class_declaration
+            (modifiers
+              (annotation
+                name: [(identifier) (scoped_identifier)] @ann
+                arguments: (annotation_argument_list [(identifier) @value_expr (field_access) @value_expr (binary_expression) @value_expr])))) @node
+          (class_declaration
+            (modifiers
+              (annotation
+                name: [(identifier) (scoped_identifier)] @ann
+                arguments: (annotation_argument_list
+                  (element_value_pair
+                    key: (identifier) @key
+                    value: [(identifier) @value_expr (field_access) @value_expr (binary_expression) @value_expr]))))) @node
           (method_declaration
             (modifiers
               (annotation
@@ -511,6 +525,16 @@ interface RouteAnnotationScan {
   feignPrefixByInterfaceId: Map<number, string[]>;
   /** Spring HTTP Interface `@HttpExchange(url|value)` type-level prefixes per class/interface node id. */
   httpExchangePrefixByTypeId: Map<number, string[]>;
+  /**
+   * Class node ids whose `@RequestMapping` prefix is a constant reference or
+   * concat rather than a literal. Folding a TYPE-level prefix would need the
+   * repo constant map inside `scanRouteAnnotations`, which has no access to it,
+   * so `scan()` suppresses every method route under such a class instead of
+   * emitting it with the prefix silently dropped (a wrong path, not a missing
+   * one). Ingestion's `extractSpringRoutes` applies the identical rule — R4
+   * parity.
+   */
+  typesWithUnfoldablePrefix: Set<number>;
   /** Resolved Spring shortcut/`@RequestMapping` routes — paths × verbs yield one entry each. */
   methodRoutes: MethodRouteAnnotation[];
   /** One entry per OpenFeign `@RequestLine` whose value parses to a verb + path. */
@@ -538,6 +562,7 @@ function scanRouteAnnotations(tree: Parser.Tree): RouteAnnotationScan {
   // feeds the OpenFeign *consumer* path in scan(). An interface carrying both
   // `@RequestMapping` and `@FeignClient(path)` lands a different value in each.
   const prefixByTypeId = new Map<number, string[]>();
+  const typesWithUnfoldablePrefix = new Set<number>();
   const feignPrefixByInterfaceId = new Map<number, string[]>();
   const httpExchangePrefixByTypeId = new Map<number, string[]>();
   const methodRoutes: MethodRouteAnnotation[] = [];
@@ -649,6 +674,11 @@ function scanRouteAnnotations(tree: Parser.Tree): RouteAnnotationScan {
     // — on an interface — an OpenFeign `@FeignClient(path = "...")` prefix.
     if (ann === 'RequestMapping') {
       if (!isRouteMemberKey(keyNode)) continue;
+      if (!valueNode) {
+        // Constant-valued class prefix — see `typesWithUnfoldablePrefix`.
+        typesWithUnfoldablePrefix.add(node.id);
+        continue;
+      }
       const prefix = unquoteLiteral(valueNode.text);
       if (prefix !== null) {
         pushPrefix(prefixByTypeId, node.id, prefix);
@@ -659,13 +689,13 @@ function scanRouteAnnotations(tree: Parser.Tree): RouteAnnotationScan {
     } else if (ann === 'FeignClient' && node.type === 'interface_declaration') {
       // Feign's `name`/`value` identify a service, not a path — only `path` is a prefix.
       if (!keyNode || keyNode.text !== 'path') continue;
-      const prefix = unquoteLiteral(valueNode.text);
+      const prefix = valueNode ? unquoteLiteral(valueNode.text) : null;
       if (prefix !== null) pushPrefix(feignPrefixByInterfaceId, node.id, prefix);
     } else if (ann === 'HttpExchange') {
       // Spring HTTP Interface type-level prefix: the path lives in `url`/`value`
       // (or positionally). Applies to its `@(Get|...)Exchange` consumer methods.
       if (keyNode && keyNode.text !== 'url' && keyNode.text !== 'value') continue;
-      const prefix = unquoteLiteral(valueNode.text);
+      const prefix = valueNode ? unquoteLiteral(valueNode.text) : null;
       if (prefix !== null) pushPrefix(httpExchangePrefixByTypeId, node.id, prefix);
     }
   }
@@ -715,6 +745,7 @@ function scanRouteAnnotations(tree: Parser.Tree): RouteAnnotationScan {
 
   return {
     prefixByTypeId,
+    typesWithUnfoldablePrefix,
     feignPrefixByInterfaceId,
     httpExchangePrefixByTypeId,
     methodRoutes: constrainedMethodRoutes,
@@ -760,9 +791,14 @@ function collectImplementedInterfaces(typeNode: Parser.SyntaxNode): string[] {
 }
 
 function collectSpringTypes(filePath: string, tree: Parser.Tree): SharedSpringType[] {
-  const { prefixByTypeId, methodRoutes } = scanRouteAnnotations(tree);
+  const { prefixByTypeId, typesWithUnfoldablePrefix, methodRoutes } = scanRouteAnnotations(tree);
   const routesByMethodId = new Map<number, Array<{ method: string; path: string }>>();
   for (const route of methodRoutes) {
+    // Constant-valued class prefix: no single prefix string exists here, so the
+    // inheritance view would publish this route unprefixed. Skip — same rule as
+    // scan() and as ingestion (R4 parity).
+    const owner = findEnclosingClass(route.methodNode);
+    if (owner && typesWithUnfoldablePrefix.has(owner.id)) continue;
     // A constant-referencing route still carries `rawPath: ''` here — folding
     // happens in scan() against the repo constant map, which this
     // inheritance-view collector has no access to. Emitting it as an empty
@@ -870,7 +906,12 @@ export const JAVA_HTTP_PLUGIN: HttpLanguagePlugin = {
         // A gate that also matched `import ...;` would parse the entire
         // repository here (tens of thousands of files) just to build import
         // tables the fold can derive per-file on demand.
-        if (!src || !/static\s+final\s+String\s|interface\s+[A-Z]\w*\s*\{/.test(src)) {
+        //
+        // The predicate is the SHARED one the ingestion provider uses, so the
+        // two subsystems agree on which files define constants. Its previous
+        // local spelling missed `final static String` and lowercase interface
+        // names, and admitted an interface that ingestion's gate rejected.
+        if (!src || !isJavaConstantFile(src)) {
           continue;
         }
         const tree = args.parseSource(args.parser, src);
@@ -898,6 +939,7 @@ export const JAVA_HTTP_PLUGIN: HttpLanguagePlugin = {
     // `@RequestLine`s — from a single `matches()` pass over the tree.
     const {
       prefixByTypeId,
+      typesWithUnfoldablePrefix,
       feignPrefixByInterfaceId,
       httpExchangePrefixByTypeId,
       methodRoutes,
@@ -936,6 +978,12 @@ export const JAVA_HTTP_PLUGIN: HttpLanguagePlugin = {
     };
 
     for (const route of methodRoutes) {
+      // A constant-valued CLASS prefix cannot be folded here, so every method
+      // route under such a class is suppressed rather than emitted at a wrong
+      // (unprefixed) path — the same rule `classesWithArrayPrefix` already
+      // encodes for the array form, and the same rule ingestion applies.
+      const owner = findEnclosingClass(route.methodNode);
+      if (owner && typesWithUnfoldablePrefix.has(owner.id)) continue;
       // Non-literal route path: fold the operand list against the repo-wide
       // constant map. Skip (never a guessed path) when the fold fails or the
       // repo context is absent (context-less fallback scanning).
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-provider.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-provider.ts
index 3aa92ce37..d5ef03c1e 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-provider.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-provider.ts
@@ -347,11 +347,11 @@ interface LanguageProviderConfig {
    * parse phase can resolve non-literal decorator route paths cross-file.
    *
    * The worker calls this when BOTH hold:
-   *  - the file is cheap to harvest (provider-declared `moduleConstantHeuristic`
-   *    matched — syntax-driven, e.g. a `static final String` field or a
-   *    constants-bearing import; NEVER a class-name pattern like `*Constants`,
-   *    which silently drops route constants living in classes named e.g.
-   *    `ApiPaths`/`Routes`), and
+   *  - the provider declares no `moduleConstantHeuristic`, or the one it
+   *    declares matched — syntax-driven, e.g. a `static final String` field or
+   *    a constants-bearing import; NEVER a class-name pattern like
+   *    `*Constants`, which silently drops route constants living in classes
+   *    named e.g. `ApiPaths`/`Routes`, and
    *  - the extraction yields something resolvable (a literal, an expression, or
    *    an import binding), keeping the aggregate bounded on large repos.
    *
@@ -366,6 +366,12 @@ interface LanguageProviderConfig {
    * repos: files that cannot contribute (no constant-bearing syntax) are not
    * walked. Must be syntax-driven (field/import shape), not identifier
    * pattern-matching on class names.
+   *
+   * Default: undefined — harvest EVERY file of this language. A gate is opt-in
+   * because getting it wrong silently drops routes that already resolve, and a
+   * missed gate only costs time. Declare one only where the cost bites (Java's
+   * Maven monorepos) and only after checking it against every shape
+   * {@link extractModuleConstants} accepts.
    */
   readonly moduleConstantHeuristic?: (content: string) => boolean;
 
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/java.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/java.ts
index 7d8726917..0fddb6657 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/java.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/java.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import { extractSpringRoutes, extractSpringTypes } from '../route-extractors/spr
 import {
   extractJavaModuleConstants,
   foldJavaOperands,
+  isJavaConstantFile,
 } from '../route-extractors/java-const-resolver.js';
 import { javaExportChecker } from '../export-detection.js';
 import { createImportResolver } from '../import-resolvers/resolver-factory.js';
@@ -222,17 +223,24 @@ export const javaProvider = defineLanguage({
   extractRouteInheritanceTypes: extractSpringTypes,
 
   // ── #2980: constant harvest + qualified-ref fold for non-literal mapping
-  // paths (`@WinPostMapping(ApiPaths.SAVE_V1)`) — kept behind provider hooks so
+  // paths (`@PostMapping(ApiPaths.SAVE_V1)`) — kept behind provider hooks so
   // the shared ingestion layers stay language-agnostic. The heuristic is
   // SYNTAX-driven (field/import shape), never a class-name pattern: constant
   // classes are routinely named `ApiPaths`/`Routes`/`Paths`, which a
   // `*Constants`-style gate would silently drop (review round-2 High finding).
   extractModuleConstants: extractJavaModuleConstants,
+  // One gate, shared with the group side's `prepareRepo` pre-pass so the two
+  // subsystems cannot disagree about which files define constants (see
+  // JAVA_CONSTANT_FILE_RE — the previous divergence dropped constant
+  // INTERFACES on this side only, which cost the graph its Route nodes while
+  // the group still published the contract).
   moduleConstantHeuristic: (content) =>
-    /\bstatic\s+final\s+String\s/.test(content) ||
+    isJavaConstantFile(content) ||
     // `import com.winning.opt.common.ApiPaths;` — ANY class import can bind a
     // constant ref (`ApiPaths.X` at an annotation site), so gate on the
-    // general import shape, not on the imported name.
+    // general import shape, not on the imported name. Ingestion-only: this
+    // side needs the importing controller's own import table, which the group
+    // side instead derives lazily from the tree it already holds.
     /\bimport\s+(?:static\s+)?[\w.]+\s*;/.test(content),
   foldRoutePathOperands: foldJavaOperands,
 });
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/python.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/python.ts
index 7aacdc0c6..ca40a4566 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/python.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/python.ts
@@ -163,9 +163,13 @@ export const pythonProvider = defineLanguage({
   // ── #2391 constant harvest, provider-hook form (#2980): module-level string
   // constants + from-imports for non-literal decorator route paths. Bare-name
   // refs fold through the shared resolver (no foldRoutePathOperands needed).
+  // No `moduleConstantHeuristic`: Python harvests unconditionally, exactly as
+  // #2391 shipped it. A content gate was tried here and removed on review — it
+  // required `NAME` immediately followed by `=`, so it silently dropped the two
+  // idiomatic typed-FastAPI shapes (`API: str = "/api"`,
+  // `API: Final[str] = "/api"`) and every composed constant whose RHS starts
+  // with an identifier (`USERS = BASE + "/users"`), i.e. it REGRESSED routes
+  // that already resolve on main. The worker treats a missing heuristic as
+  // default-open; only Java opts into a gate, where the cost actually bites.
   extractModuleConstants: extractPythonModuleConstants,
-  moduleConstantHeuristic: (content) =>
-    // Module-level assignment (`X = "/path"`, possibly typed/annotated) or a
-    // from-import that can bind a constant name at a decorator site.
-    /^[^\S\n]*(?:[A-Za-z_]\w*\s*=\s*['"]|from\s+[\w.]+\s+import\s)/m.test(content),
 });
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/constant-resolver.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/constant-resolver.ts
index 509d1de99..c96406d87 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/constant-resolver.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/constant-resolver.ts
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ const MAX_RESOLVE_DEPTH = 8;
  * whose true value is genuinely huge — building it risks a `RangeError`/heap OOM,
  * so we floor to `null` (skip) instead (#2393). The depth cap bounds recursion but
  * NOT output size, which grows multiplicatively; this bounds the output. */
-const MAX_FOLD_LENGTH = 8192;
+export const MAX_FOLD_LENGTH = 8192;
 
 /**
  * One term of a constant's right-hand side. A `+`-concatenation
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/java-const-resolver.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/java-const-resolver.ts
index 436fc42ce..cbd7c1fdc 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/java-const-resolver.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/java-const-resolver.ts
@@ -19,10 +19,16 @@
  *   }
  *
  * Reference shapes at annotation sites this binding resolves:
- *   @WinPostMapping(ApiPathConstants.DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1)      // qualified
- *   @WinPostMapping(com.winning.opt.X.ApiPathConstants.Y)    // FQN-qualified
- *   @WinPostMapping(DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1)                       // static-imported
- *   @WinPostMapping(API_CIS_V1 + "summary/save")             // inline concat
+ *   @PostMapping(ApiPathConstants.DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1)      // qualified
+ *   @PostMapping(com.winning.opt.X.ApiPathConstants.Y)    // FQN-qualified
+ *   @PostMapping(DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1)                       // static-imported
+ *   @PostMapping(API_CIS_V1 + "summary/save")             // inline concat
+ *
+ * Which ANNOTATIONS count as routes is a separate question this module has no
+ * say in: `spring-shared.ts` holds an exact-name map, so a vendor alias like
+ * `@WinPostMapping` yields no route on this base regardless of how its value
+ * folds (#2883). Folding and alias recognition compose; neither implies the
+ * other.
  *
  * Import shapes consumed:
  *   import com.winning.opt.diagnosis.api.constants.ApiPathConstants;
@@ -35,8 +41,9 @@
  */
 
 import type Parser from 'tree-sitter';
+import { unquoteSpringLiteral } from './spring-shared.js';
 import {
-  resolveConstant as foldConstant,
+  MAX_FOLD_LENGTH,
   type ImportBinding,
   type ImportResolver,
   type ModuleConstants,
@@ -51,6 +58,43 @@ export type {
   RepoConstants,
 } from './constant-resolver.js';
 
+/**
+ * Cheap content gate: can this Java file DEFINE a string constant that a route
+ * annotation might reference?
+ *
+ * Exported so BOTH sides of the pipeline use the same predicate and cannot
+ * disagree about which files carry constants — the ingestion provider
+ * (`languages/java.ts`, as `moduleConstantHeuristic`) and the group extractor's
+ * `prepareRepo` pre-pass (`group/extractors/http-patterns/java.ts`). They used
+ * to spell it differently, and the two spellings disagreed on a constant
+ * INTERFACE: the group admitted it and published a provider contract at the
+ * folded path, while ingestion rejected the file and emitted no Route node for
+ * it — an R4 parity break in the losing direction, since ingestion is the side
+ * that drives the graph and `api_impact`.
+ *
+ * Arms:
+ *  - `static final String` / `final static String` — Java lets modifiers appear
+ *    in any order, and `public final static String X = "/a";` is legal.
+ *  - any `interface` declaration — interface fields are implicitly
+ *    `public static final` (JLS 9.3), so a pure constant interface carries
+ *    neither keyword and no import. `@interface` (annotation type) matches too,
+ *    costing one parse that yields nothing.
+ */
+const EXPLICIT_STRING_CONSTANT_RE = /\b(?:static\s+final|final\s+static)\s+String\s/;
+const INTERFACE_DECL_RE = /\binterface\s+\w/;
+const STRING_ASSIGNMENT_RE = /\bString\s+\w+\s*=/;
+
+export function isJavaConstantFile(source: string): boolean {
+  if (EXPLICIT_STRING_CONSTANT_RE.test(source)) return true;
+  // The interface arm is a bare word match, so on its own it admits any file
+  // whose PROSE mentions "interface " — and every admitted file costs the group
+  // side a full extra parse. Requiring a String assignment as well keeps every
+  // shape `extractJavaModuleConstants` accepts in an interface body (bare
+  // `String`, `java.lang.String`, no space before `=`, multi-declarator) while
+  // dropping the comment-only matches.
+  return INTERFACE_DECL_RE.test(source) && STRING_ASSIGNMENT_RE.test(source);
+}
+
 /**
  * The Java {@link ImportResolver}: map a fully-qualified import specifier to
  * the unique file key it refers to, or null when it cannot be pinned to
@@ -61,14 +105,18 @@ export type {
  * file-path-keyed and Maven multi-module trees repeat package roots across
  * modules (`winning-opt-a/.../api/constants/ApiPathConstants.java` and
  * `winning-opt-b/.../api/constants/ApiPathConstants.java`), suffix matching
- * must stay UNIQUE-suffix: an import whose class name matches N files in N
- * different modules cannot be pinned by package alone — unless exactly one of
- * them ALSO matches the full package path. We therefore rank candidates:
- *   1. exact full-suffix match (`<pkg-path>/<Class>.java` as a path suffix)
- *   2. class-name-only suffix (`**&#47;<Class>.java`) when exactly one exists
- * and return null when both attempts are ambiguous.
+ * stays UNIQUE-suffix: an import whose full package+class path matches N files
+ * in N different modules cannot be pinned, so it returns null — the skip floor
+ * this module promises, never a wrong path.
+ *
+ * A nearest-shared-directory tie-break was tried here and removed on review:
+ * javac resolves duplicate FQNs by CLASSPATH ORDER, not directory proximity, so
+ * a `src/test` fixture copy or a module that merely sits closer in the tree can
+ * outrank the real dependency and yield a silently wrong literal. In a resolver
+ * whose whole contract is skip-or-correct, a plausible guess is the one answer
+ * that cannot be allowed.
  */
-export const resolveJavaImport: ImportResolver = (importingFileKey, moduleSpec, repoKeys) => {
+export const resolveJavaImport: ImportResolver = (_importingFileKey, moduleSpec, repoKeys) => {
   // A static import `a.b.C.CONST` names the class as all-but-last segment;
   // a plain import `a.b.C` names the class as last segment. Both resolve to
   // a file ending `a/b/C.java`; treating the whole spec as a path and
@@ -76,61 +124,42 @@ export const resolveJavaImport: ImportResolver = (importingFileKey, moduleSpec,
   const asPath = moduleSpec.replace(/\./g, '/');
   const classFile = `${asPath}.java`;
 
-  // 1. Exact package-path suffix match.
+  // Exact package-path suffix match, unique or nothing.
   let hit: string | null = null;
-  let ambiguity = false;
   for (const key of repoKeys) {
     if (key === classFile || key.endsWith(`/${classFile}`)) {
-      if (hit !== null) {
-        ambiguity = true;
-        break;
-      }
+      if (hit !== null) return null; // 2+ modules carry this FQN — unresolvable
       hit = key;
     }
   }
-  if (!ambiguity) return hit;
-
-  // Ambiguous full-path match (same package+class in 2+ modules is legal in
-  // separated-source monorepos but pathological for route constants). Try
-  // disambiguating by proximity to the importing file: prefer the candidate
-  // sharing the longest leading directory prefix with the importer. This
-  // mirrors how Maven/Gradle resolve classpath collisions in practice (nearest
-  // module wins) without ever guessing across unrelated trees.
-  const candidates: string[] = [];
-  for (const key of repoKeys) {
-    if (key === classFile || key.endsWith(`/${classFile}`)) candidates.push(key);
-  }
-  if (candidates.length > 1) {
-    const importerDirs = importingFileKey.split('/').slice(0, -1);
-    let best: string | null = null;
-    let bestDepth = -1;
-    let tie = false;
-    for (const c of candidates) {
-      const cDirs = c.split('/');
-      let d = 0;
-      while (d < importerDirs.length && d < cDirs.length && importerDirs[d] === cDirs[d]) d++;
-      if (d > bestDepth) {
-        bestDepth = d;
-        best = c;
-        tie = false;
-      } else if (d === bestDepth) {
-        tie = true;
-      }
-    }
-    if (best !== null && !tie) return best;
-  }
-  return null;
+  return hit;
 };
 
-/** Is `node` a Java string literal (`"..."`) with its unquoted value? */
+/**
+ * Is `node` a Java string literal (`"..."`), and if so what value does the
+ * route layer give it?
+ *
+ * tree-sitter-java splits a `string_literal` AROUND its `escape_sequence`
+ * children, so joining `string_fragment`s alone silently DELETES every escape:
+ * `"/user/{id:\\d+}"` — the standard Spring path-variable regex constraint —
+ * folded to `/user/{id:d+}`, and a pure-escape literal (`"\\t"`) folded to the
+ * empty string. Slicing the quotes off the raw text keeps the source spelling,
+ * which is precisely what the LITERAL path does
+ * ({@link unquoteSpringLiteral}) — so `@GetMapping(ApiPaths.USER_REGEX)` and
+ * `@GetMapping("/user/{id:\\d+}")` now emit the same path for the same Java
+ * source instead of two spellings the graph cannot reconcile. Same
+ * `string_fragment`-join trap as the NestJS one in #3017.
+ */
 function stringLiteralValue(node: Parser.SyntaxNode): string | null {
   if (node.type !== 'string_literal') return null;
-  const parts = node.children.filter((c) => c.type === 'string_fragment');
-  if (parts.length === 0) {
-    // Empty literal `""` has no string_fragment child.
-    return '';
-  }
-  return parts.map((c) => c.text).join('');
+  // A Java text block is also a `string_literal` here, and `unquoteSpringLiteral`
+  // has a `"""` arm that would hand back the raw block — leading newline and
+  // incidental indentation included, both of which Java strips. Nothing
+  // downstream normalizes that, so it would publish a Route at a path like
+  // "\n      /api/v1/x\n    ". The old fragment-join returned '' here, which
+  // floored to skip; keep that floor rather than trade it for a wrong path.
+  if (node.text.startsWith('"""')) return null;
+  return unquoteSpringLiteral(node.text);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -276,7 +305,7 @@ export function extractJavaModuleConstants(tree: Parser.Tree): ModuleConstants {
       // Type must be String (java.lang.String is implicit-imported).
       const typeNode = member.childForFieldName('type');
       if (!typeNode) continue;
-      const typeText = typeNode.text.replace(/^com\.java\.lang\./, '');
+      const typeText = typeNode.text;
       if (typeText !== 'String' && typeText !== 'java.lang.String') continue;
 
       const declarators = member.children.filter((c) => c.type === 'variable_declarator');
@@ -298,6 +327,23 @@ export function extractJavaModuleConstants(tree: Parser.Tree): ModuleConstants {
         if (operands === null) {
           literals.delete(name);
           exprs.delete(name);
+          // …and the static IMPORT of the same simple name. A local
+          // `static final String` shadows `import static a.b.C.PATH` inside
+          // that class (JLS 6.4.1), so the correct answer for a non-foldable
+          // rebind is "unresolvable" — leaving the import alive makes the fold
+          // fall through it (computeFold: literals → exprs → imports) and
+          // return the IMPORTED value, i.e. a wrong path where the skip floor
+          // is owed. #2393's Python defect, reproduced for Java.
+          //
+          // The delete is file-scoped because these maps are (see the header:
+          // nested types flatten into one file-level namespace). So a SIBLING
+          // top-level class in the same file that legitimately uses the import
+          // loses it too and floors to skip, where javac would resolve it.
+          // That direction is the acceptable one — a missing route, not a wrong
+          // one — and the shape (two top-level classes, one shadowing a static
+          // import with a non-foldable initializer) is vanishingly rare next to
+          // the wrong-value it prevents.
+          imports.delete(name);
           if (qname) {
             literals.delete(qname);
             exprs.delete(qname);
@@ -331,28 +377,45 @@ export function extractJavaModuleConstants(tree: Parser.Tree): ModuleConstants {
 
   const walkTypes = (node: Parser.SyntaxNode, insideInterface: boolean): void => {
     for (const child of node.children ?? []) {
-      const isClass = child.type === 'class_declaration';
       const isInterface = child.type === 'interface_declaration';
-      if (isClass || isInterface) {
-        const nameNode = child.childForFieldName('name');
-        const className = nameNode?.text ?? null;
-        const body = child.children.find(
-          (c) => c.type === 'class_body' || c.type === 'interface_body',
-        );
-        // Recompute implicit interface semantics at each type boundary: a
-        // class nested in an interface is a normal class whose fields need
-        // explicit `static final` (JLS 9.5 — only the interface's own fields
-        // are implicitly public static final). Propagating the outer
-        // `insideInterface` flag in would harvest mutable nested fields as
-        // constants and let a same-name nested field shadow a real interface
-        // constant with a stale value.
-        if (body && className) collectFieldConstants(body, isInterface, className);
-        if (body) walkTypes(body, isInterface);
-      } else if (child.type === 'enum_declaration' || child.type === 'record_declaration') {
-        walkTypes(child, insideInterface);
-      } else {
+      // Enums and records are ordinary type declarations for constant
+      // purposes — their fields need an explicit `static final` (JLS 8.9/8.10),
+      // unlike an interface's implicitly-constant ones. They used to be only
+      // RECURSED into, never collected, so a `static final String` declared
+      // directly in an enum or record was silently absent from the map.
+      const isTypeDecl =
+        isInterface ||
+        child.type === 'class_declaration' ||
+        child.type === 'enum_declaration' ||
+        child.type === 'record_declaration';
+      if (!isTypeDecl) {
         walkTypes(child, insideInterface);
+        continue;
       }
+      const className = child.childForFieldName('name')?.text ?? null;
+      const body = child.children.find(
+        (c) => c.type === 'class_body' || c.type === 'interface_body' || c.type === 'enum_body',
+      );
+      if (!body) continue;
+      // An enum's members hang one level deeper, under `enum_body_declarations`
+      // (the `enum_body` itself holds only the enum constants).
+      const memberBody = body.children.find((c) => c.type === 'enum_body_declarations') ?? body;
+      // Recompute implicit interface semantics at each type boundary: a
+      // class nested in an interface is a normal class whose fields need
+      // explicit `static final` (JLS 9.5 — only the interface's own fields
+      // are implicitly public static final). Propagating the outer
+      // `insideInterface` flag in would harvest mutable nested fields as
+      // constants and let a same-name nested field shadow a real interface
+      // constant with a stale value.
+      if (className) collectFieldConstants(memberBody, isInterface, className);
+      // Recurse over the WHOLE body, not just `memberBody`: an enum's constants
+      // are siblings of `enum_body_declarations`, so narrowing here dropped any
+      // type nested inside an enum-constant body whenever the enum also had
+      // member declarations. For a class/interface/record the two are the same
+      // node; for an enum `body` is a strict superset, and the extra visit to
+      // `enum_body_declarations` collects nothing twice (collectFieldConstants
+      // is still called on `memberBody` alone).
+      walkTypes(body, isInterface);
     }
   };
   walkTypes(tree.rootNode, false);
@@ -360,6 +423,43 @@ export function extractJavaModuleConstants(tree: Parser.Tree): ModuleConstants {
   return { literals, exprs, imports: imports as Map<string, ImportBinding> };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Per-fold state. Mirrors the guards the agnostic core carries in `foldName`,
+ * which this binding stopped delegating to once it had to resolve qualified
+ * operands itself:
+ *
+ *  - `memo` caches SUCCESSES only and is never popped. Without it a
+ *    shared-descendant DAG (`X_k = X_{k+1} + X_{k+1}`) re-folds each child once
+ *    per reference — O(2^depth) — and {@link MAX_FOLD_LENGTH} cannot save it,
+ *    because a chain whose intermediate values are the empty string never
+ *    accumulates any output. Measured before this state existed: one route over
+ *    a 31-line constants file took 2.7 s at 26 levels and 11 s at 28, on the
+ *    main thread, per file. A `null` may be transient (a name that cycles on one
+ *    branch can resolve on another), so caching it would be unsound.
+ *  - `visited` is the ACTIVE resolution stack, popped on unwind, so diamonds
+ *    fold instead of false-cycling while true cycles still terminate.
+ *  - `constantKeys` is the candidate set import ambiguity is measured over:
+ *    files that actually DEFINE a constant. Handing `resolveJavaImport` every
+ *    repo key made the two subsystems disagree — ingestion's map also holds
+ *    import-only files (its gate has an import arm), so a duplicate FQN that
+ *    defines nothing was invisible to the group and made ingestion alone floor
+ *    to skip. Hoisting it also stops rebuilding the set on every qualified ref.
+ */
+interface JavaFoldState {
+  readonly repo: RepoConstants;
+  readonly constantKeys: ReadonlySet<string>;
+  readonly visited: Set<string>;
+  readonly memo: Map<string, string>;
+}
+
+function newFoldState(repo: RepoConstants): JavaFoldState {
+  const constantKeys = new Set<string>();
+  for (const [key, mc] of repo) {
+    if (mc.literals.size > 0 || mc.exprs.size > 0) constantKeys.add(key);
+  }
+  return { repo, constantKeys, visited: new Set(), memo: new Map() };
+}
+
 /**
  * Resolve a single Java constant referenced in `fileKey` to its literal string
  * value, folding `+` concatenation and following import chains via
@@ -375,28 +475,54 @@ export function resolveJavaConstant(
   repo: RepoConstants,
   depth = 0,
 ): string | null {
-  // Cycle guard for the Java-qualified walk (self/mutual imports). The shared
-  // fold's visited-stack only guards the bare-name path below; qualified refs
-  // recurse through resolveJavaConstant directly, so bound the recursion here.
+  return resolveWithState(fileKey, name, newFoldState(repo), depth);
+}
+
+function resolveWithState(
+  fileKey: string,
+  name: string,
+  state: JavaFoldState,
+  depth: number,
+): string | null {
   if (depth > 32) return null;
-  // Qualified ref (`ApiPathConstants.FIELD`): the fold layer keys imports and
-  // constants by their IN-FILE name, so a dotted name never hits directly.
-  // Split head.tail: resolve the head through the importing file's class
-  // import, then look the tail up in the target file — first as the
-  // class-qualified alias `Head.TAIL` (what extractJavaModuleConstants
-  // records), then as a bare `TAIL` (same-file nested/interface constant).
+  const guard = `${fileKey}::${name}`;
+  const memoized = state.memo.get(guard);
+  if (memoized !== undefined) return memoized;
+  if (state.visited.has(guard)) return null; // cycle: `name` is on the active stack
+  state.visited.add(guard);
+  try {
+    const result = computeJavaFold(fileKey, name, state, depth);
+    if (result !== null) state.memo.set(guard, result);
+    return result;
+  } finally {
+    state.visited.delete(guard);
+  }
+}
+
+function computeJavaFold(
+  fileKey: string,
+  name: string,
+  state: JavaFoldState,
+  depth: number,
+): string | null {
+  const { repo, constantKeys } = state;
+  // Qualified ref (`ApiPathConstants.FIELD`): constants and imports are keyed by
+  // their IN-FILE name, so a dotted name never hits directly. Split head.tail:
+  // resolve the head through the importing file's class import, then look the
+  // tail up in the target file — first as the class-qualified alias `Head.TAIL`
+  // (what extractJavaModuleConstants records), then as a bare `TAIL` (same-file
+  // nested/interface constant).
   const dot = name.indexOf('.');
   if (dot > 0) {
     const head = name.slice(0, dot);
     const tail = name.slice(dot + 1);
-    const importing = repo.get(fileKey);
-    const imp = importing?.imports.get(head);
+    const imp = repo.get(fileKey)?.imports.get(head);
     if (imp) {
-      const targetFile = resolveJavaImport(fileKey, imp.module, new Set(repo.keys()));
+      const targetFile = resolveJavaImport(fileKey, imp.module, constantKeys);
       if (targetFile !== null) {
-        const qualified = resolveJavaConstant(targetFile, `${head}.${tail}`, repo, depth + 1);
+        const qualified = resolveWithState(targetFile, `${head}.${tail}`, state, depth + 1);
         if (qualified !== null) return qualified;
-        const bare = resolveJavaConstant(targetFile, tail, repo, depth + 1);
+        const bare = resolveWithState(targetFile, tail, state, depth + 1);
         if (bare !== null) return bare;
       }
       return null;
@@ -406,41 +532,83 @@ export function resolveJavaConstant(
     const parts = name.split('.');
     for (let cut = parts.length - 2; cut >= 1; cut--) {
       const fqn = parts.slice(0, cut + 1).join('.');
-      const targetFile = resolveJavaImport(fileKey, fqn, new Set(repo.keys()));
+      const targetFile = resolveJavaImport(fileKey, fqn, constantKeys);
       if (targetFile !== null) {
         const field = parts.slice(cut + 1).join('.');
         const declaring = parts[cut];
-        const qualified = resolveJavaConstant(targetFile, `${declaring}.${field}`, repo, depth + 1);
+        const qualified = resolveWithState(targetFile, `${declaring}.${field}`, state, depth + 1);
         if (qualified !== null) return qualified;
-        return resolveJavaConstant(targetFile, field, repo, depth + 1);
+        return resolveWithState(targetFile, field, state, depth + 1);
       }
     }
+    // No import bound the head and no FQN prefix resolved — fall through. A
+    // dotted name is ALSO a valid key in this file's own maps:
+    // `extractJavaModuleConstants` records every constant under
+    // `<DeclaringClass>.<FIELD>` as well as its simple name, so a same-file
+    // qualified reference (`ApiPaths.X` inside ApiPaths.java) resolves below.
   }
-  return foldConstant(fileKey, name, repo, resolveJavaImport);
+
+  // Name lookup: literals, then same-file expressions, then the import chase.
+  // Reached for a bare name and for a dotted name that named no import.
+  // Expressions are folded HERE rather than handed to the agnostic core because
+  // an operand of a Java initializer may itself be a QUALIFIED ref
+  // (`X = BConsts.Y + "/tail"`) and the core only knows bare names: it looks
+  // `BConsts.Y` up in maps keyed by simple name, misses, and floors the whole
+  // chain to null. Recursing through this function gives every operand the same
+  // qualified treatment the entry-point name got.
+  const mc = repo.get(fileKey);
+  if (!mc) return null;
+  const literal = mc.literals.get(name);
+  if (literal !== undefined) return literal;
+  const expr = mc.exprs.get(name);
+  if (expr !== undefined) return foldOperands(fileKey, expr, state, depth + 1);
+  const imp = mc.imports.get(name);
+  if (imp !== undefined) {
+    const targetFile = resolveJavaImport(fileKey, imp.module, constantKeys);
+    if (targetFile === null) return null;
+    return resolveWithState(targetFile, imp.originalName, state, depth + 1);
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Concatenate an operand list, resolving each `ref` through the qualified-aware
+ * walk so `Class.CONST` works at every position, not just at the entry point.
+ *
+ * Bounded by {@link MAX_FOLD_LENGTH}: the depth cap bounds RECURSION but not
+ * OUTPUT, which grows multiplicatively (`X = A + A; A = B + B; …`), so a
+ * pathological chain would build a gigabyte-scale string before any cap fired.
+ * Overrun floors to null (#2393).
+ */
+function foldOperands(
+  fileKey: string,
+  operands: readonly Operand[],
+  state: JavaFoldState,
+  depth: number,
+): string | null {
+  let out = '';
+  for (const op of operands) {
+    if (op.kind === 'literal') {
+      out += op.value;
+    } else {
+      const piece = resolveWithState(fileKey, op.name, state, depth);
+      if (piece === null) return null;
+      out += piece;
+    }
+    if (out.length > MAX_FOLD_LENGTH) return null;
+  }
+  return out;
 }
 
 /**
  * Fold an inline operand list (e.g. `API_CIS_V1 + "summary/save"`) against
- * `fileKey`. Unlike the Python binding, refs are resolved through
- * {@link resolveJavaConstant} first — the agnostic fold has no notion of
- * Java's `Class.CONST` qualified names (its import indirection only covers
- * bare names), so each `ref` operand is resolved individually and the pieces
- * are concatenated here.
+ * `fileKey`, or null when any piece is unresolvable (skip floor).
  */
 export function foldJavaOperands(
   fileKey: string,
   operands: readonly Operand[],
   repo: RepoConstants,
 ): string | null {
-  let out = '';
-  for (const op of operands) {
-    if (op.kind === 'literal') {
-      out += op.value;
-      continue;
-    }
-    const piece = resolveJavaConstant(fileKey, op.name, repo);
-    if (piece === null) return null;
-    out += piece;
-  }
+  const out = foldOperands(fileKey, operands, newFoldState(repo), 0);
   return out === '' ? null : out;
 }
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/spring.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/spring.ts
index 48933ef3f..36828a1f5 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/spring.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/spring.ts
@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ import { parseJavaConstOperands } from './java-const-resolver.js';
  * suppresses that class's method-level array routes rather than emit them with a
  * dropped prefix (a wrong route). Full class-array cross-product support is left
  * to a follow-up (#2280).
+ *
+ * The class-level `@value_expr` branches exist for the same reason: a
+ * CONSTANT-valued class prefix (`@RequestMapping(ApiPaths.BASE)`) cannot be
+ * folded here — the repo-wide constant map only exists in the parse phase — so
+ * they only DETECT it, and Phase 2 suppresses every method route under such a
+ * class. Without them the prefix was invisible and the method route was emitted
+ * unprefixed, i.e. at a path the application does not serve.
  */
 const ROUTE_ANNOTATION_QUERY = new Parser.Query(
   Java,
@@ -91,6 +98,24 @@ const ROUTE_ANNOTATION_QUERY = new Parser.Query(
               key: (identifier) @key
               value: [(string_literal) @value
                       (element_value_array_initializer (string_literal) @value)]))))) @node
+    (class_declaration
+      (modifiers
+        (annotation
+          name: [(identifier) (scoped_identifier)] @ann
+          arguments: (annotation_argument_list
+            [(identifier) @value_expr
+             (field_access) @value_expr
+             (binary_expression) @value_expr])))) @node
+    (class_declaration
+      (modifiers
+        (annotation
+          name: [(identifier) (scoped_identifier)] @ann
+          arguments: (annotation_argument_list
+            (element_value_pair
+              key: (identifier) @key
+              value: [(identifier) @value_expr
+                      (field_access) @value_expr
+                      (binary_expression) @value_expr]))))) @node
     (method_declaration
       (modifiers
         (annotation
@@ -141,6 +166,11 @@ export function extractSpringRoutes(
   // class-array cross-product support is out of scope here.
   const prefixByClassId = new Map<number, string>();
   const classesWithArrayPrefix = new Set<number>();
+  // Classes whose `@RequestMapping` prefix is a constant reference or concat.
+  // Same treatment as the array form, for the same reason: no single prefix
+  // string is knowable at extraction time, so emitting the methods below would
+  // publish them at a WRONG (unprefixed) path rather than not at all.
+  const classesWithUnfoldablePrefix = new Set<number>();
   const classHttpMethodsById = new Map<number, readonly string[]>();
   for (const match of TYPE_DECLARATION_QUERY.matches(tree.rootNode)) {
     const typeNode = match.captures.find((capture) => capture.name === 'type')?.node;
@@ -158,11 +188,16 @@ export function extractSpringRoutes(
     const node = caps['node'];
     const valueNode = caps['value'];
     const keyNode = caps['key'];
-    if (!annNode || !node || !valueNode) continue;
+    const valueExprNode = caps['value_expr'];
+    if (!annNode || !node || (!valueNode && !valueExprNode)) continue;
 
     const capturedAnnotationName = annNode.text.split('.').pop() ?? annNode.text;
     if (node.type === 'class_declaration' && capturedAnnotationName === 'RequestMapping') {
       if (!isRouteMemberKey(keyNode)) continue;
+      if (!valueNode) {
+        classesWithUnfoldablePrefix.add(node.id);
+        continue;
+      }
       if (valueNode.parent?.type === 'element_value_array_initializer') {
         classesWithArrayPrefix.add(node.id);
         continue;
@@ -237,6 +272,16 @@ export function extractSpringRoutes(
     if (isArrayElement && enclosingClass && classesWithArrayPrefix.has(enclosingClass.id)) {
       continue;
     }
+    // Same rule for a CONSTANT-valued class prefix (`@RequestMapping(ApiPaths.BASE)`),
+    // and for every method route under it — not just array-form ones. The prefix
+    // needs the repo-wide constant map, which does not exist at extraction time,
+    // so the prefix would simply be dropped and the route emitted at a path the
+    // application never serves. On base such a route was not emitted at all;
+    // turning a missing fact into a wrong one is the failure this module's skip
+    // floor exists to prevent. Folding class prefixes cross-file is a follow-up.
+    if (enclosingClass && classesWithUnfoldablePrefix.has(enclosingClass.id)) {
+      continue;
+    }
 
     const classPrefix = enclosingClass ? (prefixByClassId.get(enclosingClass.id) ?? '') : '';
     // `node` is the annotated `method_declaration`; its name field is the
@@ -279,6 +324,13 @@ export function extractSpringRoutes(
   for (const match of TYPE_DECLARATION_QUERY.matches(tree.rootNode)) {
     const typeNode = match.captures.find((capture) => capture.name === 'type')?.node;
     if (typeNode?.type !== 'class_declaration') continue;
+    // A no-argument `@GetMapping` IS the class prefix, so a class prefix that
+    // cannot be folded here leaves nothing to emit — the route would ship with
+    // `routePath: ''` and no prefix, i.e. an empty-path Route. The Phase 2 loop
+    // above already suppresses these classes; this loop needs the same guard, or
+    // the suppression is one-sided and the group side (which routes both shapes
+    // through `methodRoutes`) disagrees with ingestion.
+    if (classesWithUnfoldablePrefix.has(typeNode.id)) continue;
     const classPrefix = prefixByClassId.get(typeNode.id) ?? '';
     const classMethods = classHttpMethodsById.get(typeNode.id) ?? ['*'];
     for (const methodNode of directMethods(typeNode)) {
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
index 3e6dd5079..2638aa66a 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
@@ -2969,7 +2969,12 @@ const processFileGroup = (
     // paths cross-file. Cost-gated by the provider's syntax-driven heuristic;
     // only files that carry something resolvable (a constant definition or an
     // import binding) are emitted, keeping the aggregate bounded on large repos.
-    if (provider.extractModuleConstants && provider.moduleConstantHeuristic?.(parseContent)) {
+    // A provider that declares no heuristic harvests unconditionally (`?.`
+    // would have read `undefined` as "skip" and disabled the hook outright).
+    if (
+      provider.extractModuleConstants &&
+      (!provider.moduleConstantHeuristic || provider.moduleConstantHeuristic(parseContent))
+    ) {
       const constants = provider.extractModuleConstants(tree);
       if (constants.literals.size > 0 || constants.exprs.size > 0 || constants.imports.size > 0) {
         (result.moduleConstants ??= []).push({ filePath: file.path, constants });
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
index f10985262..6de50176a 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
@@ -539,14 +539,37 @@ import type { ParseWorkerResult } from '../core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.j
 // then adds Spring non-HTTP handler side-channel facts (#2417 / #2891), so Java
 // and Kotlin caches persist scheduled, event, messaging, and managed-job facts.
 //
-// This PR originally carried its own bump (47 -> 48) for the Java constant-route
-// capture set change (route-extractors/java-const-resolver.ts + the spring.ts
-// operand branch + the parse-worker Java constant harvest): a warm pre-feature
-// cache replays `moduleConstants=0` captures verbatim and silently drops every
-// constant-based Spring route on unchanged files. After rebasing onto current
-// main the ledger already sits at 70, whose capture set post-dates and includes
-// this harvest — v70 invalidates those caches, so no additional bump is needed.
-const SCHEMA_BUMP = 70;
+// 70 -> 71 adds the Java constant-route capture set (#2980):
+// `route-extractors/java-const-resolver.ts`, the `spring.ts` operand branch,
+// and the parse-worker's provider-driven constant harvest. A warm pre-feature
+// cache replays those files' worker results with `moduleConstants` absent and
+// `routePathOperands` unset, so every constant-based Spring route on an
+// unchanged file is silently dropped — the feature is inert until something
+// else invalidates the cache.
+//
+// This branch briefly reasoned that no bump was needed because the ledger
+// "already sits at 70, whose capture set post-dates and includes this harvest".
+// It does not: v70 was cut by fe3d7e56b for Spring non-HTTP handler facts
+// (#2417 / #2891), an ancestor of this PR's base, and it cannot include a
+// harvest that does not exist on main. Because
+// `PARSE_CACHE_VERSION = ${SCHEMA_BUMP}+${GITNEXUS_PKG_VERSION}` and
+// package.json is untouched here, leaving 70 makes the key BYTE-IDENTICAL
+// before and after this merge — precisely the inert-feature trap the v33/v34
+// notes above warn about. Exposure is bounded by the package version (a
+// released upgrade invalidates anyway), but same-version warm caches — dev
+// builds, CI caches, anyone who indexed with an unreleased build — replay the
+// stale captures.
+//
+// 72, not 71: open PR #3017 (`fix/nest-decorator-routes`, NestJS decorator route
+// indexing) already claims 71, with an identical pin test. Re-checking
+// origin/main alone would not catch that — main is 70 and stays 70 until one of
+// the two merges, at which point the second lands a byte-identical
+// PARSE_CACHE_VERSION and is inert. This is exactly the rule the ledger states
+// and the v37/v38 clash it was written for: the next free value above every
+// IN-FLIGHT claim, not above origin/main. Every open PR touching gitnexus/ was
+// scanned; #3017 is the only other claimant.
+// RE-CHECK AGAINST origin/main AND OPEN PRs IMMEDIATELY BEFORE MERGING.
+const SCHEMA_BUMP = 72;
 const GITNEXUS_PKG_VERSION = (() => {
   try {
     // package.json sits at gitnexus/package.json — two levels up from
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/group/java-const-route-parity.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/group/java-const-route-parity.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cfdf652a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/group/java-const-route-parity.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+/**
+ * Group ↔ ingestion parity for Java constant-valued Spring route paths (#2980).
+ *
+ * Drives `JAVA_HTTP_PLUGIN.prepareRepo` + `scan(tree, ctx, rel)` with all three
+ * arguments and compares the result against what `extractSpringRoutes` + the
+ * Java operand fold produce on the ingestion side. The existing Spring parity
+ * guards call `scan(tree)` with ONE argument, which makes them structurally
+ * blind here: without a repo context the plugin drops every constant-valued
+ * route, so no fixture they carry can exercise this feature.
+ *
+ * Asserted:
+ *   • a constant-valued mapping resolves to the SAME path on both sides;
+ *   • a CONSTANT class prefix suppresses the method route on both sides — the
+ *     prefix cannot be folded at extraction time, and emitting the route
+ *     unprefixed would publish a path the application does not serve;
+ *   • without a repo context the group side emits nothing (the documented skip
+ *     floor, and the branch that makes the 1-arg guards blind);
+ *   • literal routes are untouched.
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import Parser from 'tree-sitter';
+import Java from 'tree-sitter-java';
+import { JAVA_HTTP_PLUGIN } from '../../../src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/java.js';
+import type { HttpDetection } from '../../../src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/types.js';
+import { extractSpringRoutes } from '../../../src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/spring.js';
+import { javaProvider } from '../../../src/core/ingestion/languages/java.js';
+import {
+  extractJavaModuleConstants,
+  foldJavaOperands,
+  type RepoConstants,
+} from '../../../src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/java-const-resolver.js';
+
+const parser = new Parser();
+const parseSource = (p: Parser, src: string): Parser.Tree => {
+  p.setLanguage(Java);
+  return p.parse(src);
+};
+const parse = (src: string): Parser.Tree => parseSource(parser, src);
+
+/** Group side: prepareRepo + a 3-argument scan over every .java file. */
+function groupProviders(files: Record<string, string>): string[] {
+  const ctx = JAVA_HTTP_PLUGIN.prepareRepo?.({
+    files: Object.keys(files),
+    parser: new Parser(),
+    readFile: (rel: string) => files[rel] ?? null,
+    parseSource,
+  });
+  const out: string[] = [];
+  for (const rel of Object.keys(files)) {
+    const detections: HttpDetection[] = JAVA_HTTP_PLUGIN.scan(parse(files[rel]), ctx, rel);
+    for (const d of detections) {
+      if (d.role === 'provider') out.push(`${d.method} ${d.path}`);
+    }
+  }
+  return out.sort();
+}
+
+/** Ingestion side: extract routes, then fold operands against the same map. */
+function ingestionRoutes(files: Record<string, string>): string[] {
+  const repo: RepoConstants = new Map();
+  for (const [rel, src] of Object.entries(files)) {
+    repo.set(rel, extractJavaModuleConstants(parse(src)));
+  }
+  const out: string[] = [];
+  for (const [rel, src] of Object.entries(files)) {
+    for (const route of extractSpringRoutes(parse(src), rel, 0)) {
+      const path = route.routePathOperands
+        ? foldJavaOperands(rel, route.routePathOperands, repo)
+        : route.routePath;
+      if (path === null) continue;
+      out.push(`${route.httpMethod} ${`${route.prefix ?? ''}${path}`.replace(/\/{2,}/g, '/')}`);
+    }
+  }
+  return out.sort();
+}
+
+const CONSTS = 'src/main/java/com/example/ApiPaths.java';
+const CTL = 'src/main/java/com/example/OrderController.java';
+
+const CONSTS_SRC = `package com.example;
+public class ApiPaths {
+  public static final String BASE = "/api/v1";
+  public static final String ORDERS = "/api/v1/orders";
+}`;
+
+describe('Java constant-valued routes: group ↔ ingestion parity (#2980)', () => {
+  it('resolves a constant-valued mapping to the same path on both sides', () => {
+    const files = {
+      [CONSTS]: CONSTS_SRC,
+      [CTL]: `package com.example;
+import com.example.ApiPaths;
+public class OrderController {
+  @GetMapping(ApiPaths.ORDERS)
+  public void list() {}
+}`,
+    };
+    expect(groupProviders(files)).toEqual(['GET /api/v1/orders']);
+    expect(ingestionRoutes(files)).toEqual(groupProviders(files));
+  });
+
+  it('suppresses the method route under a CONSTANT class prefix on both sides', () => {
+    // The class prefix needs the repo-wide constant map, which does not exist
+    // at extraction time on either side. Emitting the method route would drop
+    // the prefix and publish `GET /api/v1/orders`-without-its-base — a path the
+    // application never serves. On base such a route was not emitted at all, so
+    // shipping it unprefixed would turn a missing fact into a wrong one.
+    const files = {
+      [CONSTS]: CONSTS_SRC,
+      [CTL]: `package com.example;
+import com.example.ApiPaths;
+@RequestMapping(ApiPaths.BASE)
+public class OrderController {
+  @GetMapping(ApiPaths.ORDERS)
+  public void list() {}
+
+  @GetMapping("/literal")
+  public void literal() {}
+}`,
+    };
+    expect(groupProviders(files)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(ingestionRoutes(files)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('still applies a LITERAL class prefix', () => {
+    const files = {
+      [CONSTS]: CONSTS_SRC,
+      [CTL]: `package com.example;
+import com.example.ApiPaths;
+@RequestMapping("/api/v1")
+public class OrderController {
+  @GetMapping("/orders")
+  public void list() {}
+}`,
+    };
+    expect(groupProviders(files)).toEqual(['GET /api/v1/orders']);
+    expect(ingestionRoutes(files)).toEqual(['GET /api/v1/orders']);
+  });
+
+  it('emits nothing for a constant route when scanned without a repo context', () => {
+    // This is the branch that makes the 1-argument parity guards blind to the
+    // whole feature; pin it so it is not silently dead in the suite.
+    const src = `package com.example;
+import com.example.ApiPaths;
+public class OrderController {
+  @GetMapping(ApiPaths.ORDERS)
+  public void list() {}
+}`;
+    const detections = JAVA_HTTP_PLUGIN.scan(parse(src));
+    expect(detections.filter((d) => d.role === 'provider')).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('suppresses a NO-ARGUMENT mapping under a constant class prefix on both sides', () => {
+    // A bare `@GetMapping` IS the class prefix, so an unfoldable class prefix
+    // leaves nothing to emit. Ingestion routes these through a separate loop
+    // from the path-carrying ones, and that loop needs the same guard — without
+    // it ingestion emitted an empty-path Route where the group emitted nothing.
+    const files = {
+      [CONSTS]: CONSTS_SRC,
+      [CTL]: `package com.example;
+import com.example.ApiPaths;
+@RequestMapping(ApiPaths.BASE)
+public class OrderController {
+  @GetMapping public void list() {}
+  @PostMapping public void create() {}
+}`,
+    };
+    expect(ingestionRoutes(files)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(groupProviders(files)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('measures import ambiguity over the same candidate set on both sides', () => {
+    // Ingestion's harvest gate also admits import-only files, so its repo map is
+    // a superset of the group's. When ambiguity was measured over every key, a
+    // duplicate FQN belonging to a class that defines NOTHING was invisible to
+    // the group and made ingestion alone floor to skip — reopening the very
+    // parity break this feature exists to close. Both sides now measure over
+    // constant-DEFINING files only.
+    const files = {
+      'svc-a/src/main/java/com/x/ApiPaths.java': `package com.x;
+public class ApiPaths { public static final String ORDERS = "/api/v1/orders"; }`,
+      // Same FQN, different module, defines no constant — must not create ambiguity.
+      'svc-b/src/main/java/com/x/ApiPaths.java': `package com.x;
+import java.util.List;
+public class ApiPaths {}`,
+      'svc-a/src/main/java/com/x/web/OrderController.java': `package com.x.web;
+import com.x.ApiPaths;
+public class OrderController {
+  @GetMapping(ApiPaths.ORDERS)
+  public void list() {}
+}`,
+    };
+    // Guard the premise: the two maps really are different sizes.
+    const ingestionKeys = Object.entries(files).filter(([, src]) =>
+      javaProvider.moduleConstantHeuristic?.(src),
+    ).length;
+    expect(ingestionKeys).toBe(3);
+    expect(groupProviders(files)).toEqual(['GET /api/v1/orders']);
+    expect(ingestionRoutes(files)).toEqual(['GET /api/v1/orders']);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves literal routes unchanged with no constant map at all', () => {
+    const files = {
+      [CTL]: `package com.example;
+public class OrderController {
+  @PostMapping("/api/v1/orders")
+  public void create() {}
+}`,
+    };
+    expect(groupProviders(files)).toEqual(['POST /api/v1/orders']);
+    expect(ingestionRoutes(files)).toEqual(['POST /api/v1/orders']);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
index 17595f15b..cd353e800 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
@@ -221,14 +221,23 @@ describe('PARSE_CACHE_VERSION', () => {
   // Version 69 added #2969's JS/TS data-route-table decoratorRoutes. Version 70
   // adds Spring non-HTTP handler side-channel facts (#2417 / #2891), so it is
   // the next free value after both cache payload changes.
-  it('pins SCHEMA_BUMP to 70 so concurrent bumps cannot silently collide (#2766)', () => {
-    expect(Number(PARSE_CACHE_VERSION.split('+', 1)[0])).toBe(70);
+  // Moved 70 -> 71 for #2980's Java constant-route capture set (moduleConstants
+  // + routePathOperands). This branch first argued no bump was needed because
+  // "the ledger already sits at 70, whose capture set post-dates and includes
+  // this harvest" — it does not: 70 was cut by fe3d7e56b for #2417/#2891, an
+  // ancestor of this PR's base. Leaving it made PARSE_CACHE_VERSION byte-
+  // identical across the merge, so every same-package-version warm cache
+  // replayed pre-feature captures and the feature was inert. 71 is the next
+  // free value above every claim at this merge — origin/main is 70 and open
+  // PR #3017 already claims 71, so 71 would have collided.
+  it('pins SCHEMA_BUMP to 72 so concurrent bumps cannot silently collide (#2766)', () => {
+    expect(Number(PARSE_CACHE_VERSION.split('+', 1)[0])).toBe(72);
     // The PREVIOUS version must fail the reuse gate, not merely differ from the
     // current one — a hardcoded number outside the conflict hunk rebases cleanly
     // while being wrong, which is exactly how the 37/38 exact clashes landed.
     // Every nearby historical or in-flight value is rejected, including 69,
     // which carried the route-table payload before this merge.
-    for (const taken of [59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69]) {
+    for (const taken of [59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71]) {
       expect(Number(PARSE_CACHE_VERSION.split('+', 1)[0])).not.toBe(taken);
     }
   });
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/java-route-const-pipeline-e2e.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/java-route-const-pipeline-e2e.test.ts
index dad728579..4370edc31 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/java-route-const-pipeline-e2e.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/java-route-const-pipeline-e2e.test.ts
@@ -19,16 +19,18 @@
  *                                                    *Constants (the High bug)
  *     src/main/java/com/example/UserController.java — @RequestMapping prefix +
  *                                                    @PostMapping(ApiPaths.X) +
- *                                                    FQN form + inline concat +
- *                                                    static import
+ *                                                    FQN form + concat over a
+ *                                                    static-imported bare ref
  *
  * Assertions (both runs):
  *  - the emitted Route node carries the FOLDED literal path, not the expr;
  *  - ALL THREE non-literal shapes survive (qualified, FQN-qualified, concat);
  *  - a phantom `POST ` / empty path never appears (skip floor);
- *  - the warm run (parse-cache replay, no worker spawn) yields the IDENTICAL
- *    route set — the harvest result survives the structured-clone cache round
- *    trip (ModuleConstants uses Map, exercised through mapReplacer/mapReviver).
+ *  - the warm run yields the IDENTICAL route set AND is a genuine replay
+ *    (`usedWorkerPool === false`) — the harvest result survives the
+ *    structured-clone cache round trip (ModuleConstants uses Map, exercised
+ *    through mapReplacer/mapReviver). Asserting the route set alone would pass
+ *    on a cache MISS that silently reparsed.
  *
  * Rebuild gate: this test requires dist/ to be current; when dist/ is stale
  * (older than src/) it self-skips with a loud message rather than silently
@@ -42,13 +44,43 @@ import path from 'node:path';
 import { createKnowledgeGraph } from '../../src/core/graph/graph.js';
 import { runChunkedParseAndResolve } from '../../src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/parse-impl.js';
 import { PARSE_CACHE_VERSION, type ParseCache } from '../../src/storage/parse-cache.js';
+import {
+  getDurableParsedFileDir,
+  pruneAndSaveDurableParsedFileStore,
+} from '../../src/storage/parsedfile-store.js';
 
 // ── dist freshness gate ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// The worker is one emitted file among many: TypeScript emits every module in
+// this feature separately, so comparing dist/parse-worker.js against
+// src/parse-worker.ts alone passes while the resolver, the Spring extractor or
+// the provider behind it are stale — and the test then asserts against the
+// PREVIOUS build's harvest. Gate on the newest mtime across every source this
+// pipeline actually loads.
 const repoRoot = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', '..');
 const distWorker = path.join(repoRoot, 'dist', 'core', 'ingestion', 'workers', 'parse-worker.js');
-const srcWorker = path.join(repoRoot, 'src', 'core', 'ingestion', 'workers', 'parse-worker.ts');
-const distStale =
-  !fs.existsSync(distWorker) || fs.statSync(distWorker).mtimeMs < fs.statSync(srcWorker).mtimeMs;
+const GATED_SOURCES = [
+  'core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts',
+  'core/ingestion/route-extractors/java-const-resolver.ts',
+  'core/ingestion/route-extractors/constant-resolver.ts',
+  'core/ingestion/route-extractors/spring.ts',
+  'core/ingestion/languages/java.ts',
+  'core/ingestion/languages/python.ts',
+  'core/ingestion/language-provider.ts',
+  'core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/parse-impl.ts',
+];
+const newestSourceMs = Math.max(
+  ...GATED_SOURCES.map((rel) => fs.statSync(path.join(repoRoot, 'src', rel)).mtimeMs),
+);
+const distStale = !fs.existsSync(distWorker) || fs.statSync(distWorker).mtimeMs < newestSourceMs;
+
+if (distStale) {
+  // `describe.skip` prints only vitest's ordinary skip marker, so without this
+  // the docblock's promised "loud message" did not exist and a stale/absent
+  // dist/ looked like a passing run.
+  console.warn(
+    '[#2980 e2e] SKIPPED: dist/ is missing or older than src/ — run `npm run build` to exercise the real pipeline.',
+  );
+}
 
 const maybeDescribe = distStale ? describe.skip : describe;
 
@@ -65,6 +97,7 @@ public class ApiPaths {
 const USER_CONTROLLER = `package com.example;
 
 import com.example.common.ApiPaths;
+import static com.example.common.ApiPaths.V1;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PostMapping;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
@@ -81,9 +114,11 @@ public class UserController {
     @GetMapping(com.example.common.ApiPaths.ORDERS)
     public void list() {}
 
-    // Inline concat with a static-import-style bare ref (same-file constant
-    // through the composed-operand fold).
-    @PostMapping(com.example.common.ApiPaths.V1 + "/orders")
+    // Inline concat with a STATIC-IMPORTED bare ref — the shape this fixture
+    // used to only claim: it spelled the operand as the full FQN chain, which
+    // just re-tested the FQN branch above, so bare-name resolution through the
+    // import table had no coverage anywhere in the suite.
+    @PostMapping(V1 + "/orders")
     public void createOrders() {}
 }
 `;
@@ -158,6 +193,7 @@ maybeDescribe('#2980 provider-hook constant harvest — real pipeline (cold + wa
     };
 
     const result = await runPipeline(cache, files);
+    expect(result.usedWorkerPool).toBe(true);
     const routes = foldedRoutesOf(result);
 
     // All three non-literal shapes resolve to folded literals. (The class-level
@@ -186,16 +222,27 @@ maybeDescribe('#2980 provider-hook constant harvest — real pipeline (cold + wa
       onDiskKeys: new Set(),
     };
 
-    // Run #1 populates the cache; persist it like run-analyze does.
+    // Run #1 populates the cache; persist it like run-analyze does — BOTH the
+    // chunk shards and the durable ParsedFile store. `slimParseWorkerResultsForCache`
+    // blanks `parsedFiles` before writing a shard, so a warm run without the
+    // durable store cannot replay the chunk and silently falls back to the
+    // workers — which is what this test used to do while still passing.
     const run1 = await runPipeline(cache, files);
     const { saveParseCache, pruneCache } = await import('../../src/storage/parse-cache.js');
     pruneCache(cache, cache.usedKeys);
-    await saveParseCache(storageDir, cache);
+    const savedKeys = await saveParseCache(storageDir, cache);
+    expect(savedKeys.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    await pruneAndSaveDurableParsedFileStore(
+      getDurableParsedFileDir(storageDir),
+      PARSE_CACHE_VERSION,
+      new Set(savedKeys),
+    );
 
     // Run #2 — warm: every chunk is a cache HIT, no worker spawn, the cached
     // ParseWorkerResult (moduleConstants included) is replayed from disk.
     const { loadParseCache } = await import('../../src/storage/parse-cache.js');
     const warm = await loadParseCache(storageDir);
+    expect(warm.onDiskKeys).toEqual(new Set(savedKeys));
     const run2 = await runPipeline(warm, files);
 
     const cold = foldedRoutesOf(run1)
@@ -206,5 +253,12 @@ maybeDescribe('#2980 provider-hook constant harvest — real pipeline (cold + wa
       .sort();
     expect(hot).toEqual(cold);
     expect(hot.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    // Without this the test proves nothing about the cache: `loadParseCache`
+    // returns an EMPTY cache on any failure (missing file, corrupt JSON,
+    // version mismatch) and never throws, so a broken Map round-trip through
+    // mapReplacer/mapReviver — the exact regression this test exists for —
+    // would silently reparse through the workers and produce the same routes.
+    expect(run1.usedWorkerPool).toBe(true);
+    expect(run2.usedWorkerPool).toBe(false);
   }, 120_000);
 });
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/java-route-const-resolver.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/java-route-const-resolver.test.ts
index dca8de6db..0d1cb7c83 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/java-route-const-resolver.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/java-route-const-resolver.test.ts
@@ -6,19 +6,28 @@
  * fixtures missed the dominant real-world spelling — 1198 constant-ref
  * routes vs 2 literals in the real repo).
  *
- * Real shapes covered (counts from the live repo):
- *  - `@WinPostMapping(ApiPathConstants.DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1)` — qualified ref,
- *    1063 occurrences
- *  - `@WinPostMapping(value = ApiPathConstants.X)` / `(path = X)` — named
+ * Value shapes covered, spelled with the Spring annotations this branch
+ * actually recognises (`@PostMapping` & co., bare or fully qualified):
+ *  - `@PostMapping(ApiPathConstants.DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1)` — qualified ref, the
+ *    dominant real-world spelling (1063 occurrences in the source corpus)
+ *  - `@PostMapping(value = ApiPathConstants.X)` / `(path = X)` — named
  *    argument, 414+ occurrences
- *  - `@WinPostMapping(API_CIS_GET_TREATMENT_ORDER_V1)` — static-imported bare
+ *  - `@PostMapping(API_CIS_GET_TREATMENT_ORDER_V1)` — static-imported bare
  *    name, 79 files
  *  - `public static final String API = OTHER + "suffix"` — composed constant
  *  - interface constants (implicitly static final)
- *  - same-package simple-name collision handled by unique-suffix import
- *    resolution across Maven modules
+ *  - escaped characters survive folding identically to the literal path
+ *  - same-package simple-name collision floors to skip across Maven modules
  *  - FQN-qualified annotation value (4 occurrences)
  *  - unresolvable references floor to skip (never a phantom path)
+ *
+ * NOT covered, deliberately: the vendor alias `@WinPostMapping`. The corpus is
+ * dominated by it, but Spring alias recognition is an EXACT-NAME map
+ * (`spring-shared.ts`) on this base — there is no `*Mapping`-suffix rule, #2883
+ * is still open — so `@PostMapping(...)` extracts zero routes here no matter
+ * how the constant folds. A fixture written in that spelling would be dead
+ * (one was, and CodeQL flagged it). Constant folding and alias recognition are
+ * independent: when #2883 lands, every shape below works unchanged for aliases.
  */
 
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
@@ -26,11 +35,15 @@ import Parser from 'tree-sitter';
 import Java from 'tree-sitter-java';
 import {
   extractJavaModuleConstants,
+  foldJavaOperands,
+  isJavaConstantFile,
   parseJavaConstOperands,
   resolveJavaConstant,
   resolveJavaImport,
   type RepoConstants,
 } from '../../src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/java-const-resolver.js';
+import { javaProvider } from '../../src/core/ingestion/languages/java.js';
+import { unquoteSpringLiteral } from '../../src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/spring-shared.js';
 
 const parser = new Parser();
 parser.setLanguage(Java);
@@ -79,13 +92,13 @@ import com.winning.opt.diagnosis.api.constants.ApiPathConstants;
 
 public class DiagnosisController {
 
-    @WinPostMapping(ApiPathConstants.DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1)
+    @PostMapping(ApiPathConstants.DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1)
     public String save() { return "{}"; }
 
-    @WinPostMapping(value = ApiPathConstants.DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V2)
+    @PostMapping(value = ApiPathConstants.DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V2)
     public String saveV2() { return "{}"; }
 
-    @WinPostMapping(path = ApiPathConstants.API_CIS_SAVE_SUMMARY)
+    @PostMapping(path = ApiPathConstants.API_CIS_SAVE_SUMMARY)
     public String saveSummary() { return "{}"; }
 }`;
 
@@ -95,7 +108,7 @@ import static com.winning.opt.diagnosis.api.constants.ApiPathConstants.DIAGNOSIS
 
 public class CisController {
 
-    @WinPostMapping(DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1)
+    @PostMapping(DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1)
     public String save() { return "{}"; }
 }`;
 
@@ -105,16 +118,6 @@ public interface LabApiPath {
     String LAB_QUERY_V1 = "/api/v1/labtest/query";
 }`;
 
-const WIN_POST_MAPPING = `package com.winning.opt.annotations;
-
-public @interface WinPostMapping {
-    String value() default "";
-    String path() default "";
-}`;
-
-// Fake minimal annotation so fixtures parse — the alias layer treats any
-// *Mapping-suffixed annotation as a route annotation.
-
 describe('extractJavaModuleConstants', () => {
   it('collects static final String literals with class-qualified aliases', () => {
     const mc = extractJavaModuleConstants(parse(CONSTANTS_FILE));
@@ -312,11 +315,11 @@ public class DemoController {
   public String save() { return "ok"; }
 }`);
     const routes = extractSpringRoutes(tree, 'DemoController.java', 0);
-    assert.strictEqual(routes.length, 1);
-    assert.strictEqual(routes[0].httpMethod, 'POST');
-    assert.strictEqual(routes[0].routePathExpr, 'ApiPathConstants.DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1');
-    assert.ok(routes[0].routePathOperands && routes[0].routePathOperands.length > 0);
-    assert.strictEqual(routes[0].routePath, '');
+    expect(routes.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(routes[0].httpMethod).toBe('POST');
+    expect(routes[0].routePathExpr).toBe('ApiPathConstants.DIAGNOSIS_SAVE_V1');
+    expect(routes[0].routePathOperands && routes[0].routePathOperands.length > 0).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(routes[0].routePath).toBe('');
   });
 
   it('keeps literal routes unchanged', async () => {
@@ -329,9 +332,9 @@ public class DemoController {
   public String save() { return "ok"; }
 }`);
     const routes = extractSpringRoutes(tree, 'DemoController.java', 0);
-    assert.strictEqual(routes.length, 1);
-    assert.strictEqual(routes[0].routePath, '/literal/path');
-    assert.strictEqual(routes[0].routePathExpr, undefined);
+    expect(routes.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(routes[0].routePath).toBe('/literal/path');
+    expect(routes[0].routePathExpr).toBe(undefined);
   });
 });
 
@@ -339,6 +342,7 @@ describe('qualified-ref recursion cycle guard (maintainer point 5)', () => {
   it('self-import: qualified self-reference terminates with null, not a stack overflow', () => {
     const repo = repoOf({
       'src/main/java/com/example/SelfConsts.java': `package com.example;
+import com.example.SelfConsts;
 public class SelfConsts {
   public static final String X = SelfConsts.X + "/x";
 }`,
@@ -509,3 +513,252 @@ public class Ctl {
     ).toBe('/api/v1/users');
   });
 });
+
+describe('escaped characters survive folding (review P1)', () => {
+  // tree-sitter-java splits a string_literal AROUND its escape_sequence
+  // children, so a string_fragment-only join silently deleted every escape:
+  // the standard Spring path-variable constraint `{id:\\d+}` folded to
+  // `{id:d+}` and a pure-escape literal folded to ''. Worse, the LITERAL path
+  // keeps escapes verbatim, so one Java route had two spellings.
+  const cases = [
+    ['"/user/{id:\\d+}"', '/user/{id:\\d+}'],
+    ['"/a\\tb"', '/a\\tb'],
+    ['"/a\\u002Fb"', '/a\\u002Fb'],
+    ['"\\t"', '\\t'],
+    ['""', ''],
+    ['"/plain"', '/plain'],
+  ] as const;
+
+  it.each(cases)('keeps %s intact through the constant path', (literal, expected) => {
+    const mc = extractJavaModuleConstants(
+      parse(`public class C { public static final String X = ${literal}; }`),
+    );
+    expect(mc.literals.get('X')).toBe(expected);
+  });
+
+  it.each(cases)('agrees with the literal path for %s', (literal, expected) => {
+    // The constant path and `unquoteSpringLiteral` (what a literal-valued
+    // @GetMapping goes through) must produce the SAME string, or the graph
+    // carries two irreconcilable spellings of one route.
+    expect(unquoteSpringLiteral(literal)).toBe(expected);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('a non-foldable rebind drops the static import too (review P1)', () => {
+  it('returns null rather than the shadowed imported value', () => {
+    const repo = repoOf({
+      'src/main/java/com/x/Base.java': `package com.x;
+public class Base { public static final String PATH = "/WRONG-imported"; }`,
+      'src/main/java/com/y/C.java': `package com.y;
+import static com.x.Base.PATH;
+public class C { public static final String PATH = compute(); }`,
+    });
+    // A local `static final` shadows a static import of the same simple name
+    // inside that class (JLS 6.4.1), so the only correct answer is
+    // "unresolvable". Leaving the import alive made the fold fall through to
+    // it and return the imported literal — a wrong path where the skip floor
+    // is owed (#2393's Python defect, reproduced for Java).
+    expect(repo.get('src/main/java/com/y/C.java')!.imports.has('PATH')).toBe(false);
+    expect(
+      foldJavaOperands('src/main/java/com/y/C.java', [{ kind: 'ref', name: 'PATH' }], repo),
+    ).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('the drop is file-scoped: a sibling class floors to skip, never to a wrong value', () => {
+    // These maps are file-level by design (nested types flatten into one
+    // namespace), so dropping the import costs a sibling class that
+    // legitimately uses it. javac would answer `/imported/b` here; we answer
+    // null. Pinned deliberately — the alternative direction is a wrong path.
+    const repo = repoOf({
+      'src/main/java/com/x/Base.java': `package com.x;
+public class Base { public static final String PATH = "/imported"; }`,
+      'src/main/java/com/y/Two.java': `package com.y;
+import static com.x.Base.PATH;
+class A { public static final String PATH = compute(); }
+class B { public static final String USE = PATH + "/b"; }`,
+    });
+    expect(
+      foldJavaOperands('src/main/java/com/y/Two.java', [{ kind: 'ref', name: 'B.USE' }], repo),
+    ).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('a FOLDABLE rebind still wins over the import', () => {
+    const repo = repoOf({
+      'src/main/java/com/x/Base.java': `package com.x;
+public class Base { public static final String PATH = "/imported"; }`,
+      'src/main/java/com/y/C.java': `package com.y;
+import static com.x.Base.PATH;
+public class C { public static final String PATH = "/local"; }`,
+    });
+    expect(
+      foldJavaOperands('src/main/java/com/y/C.java', [{ kind: 'ref', name: 'PATH' }], repo),
+    ).toBe('/local');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('isJavaConstantFile — one gate, both subsystems (review P1)', () => {
+  // The ingestion provider and the group extractor's prepareRepo pre-pass used
+  // to spell this gate differently. A constant INTERFACE passed the group's and
+  // failed ingestion's, so the group published a provider contract while the
+  // graph got no Route node — an R4 parity break in the losing direction.
+  const shapes = [
+    [
+      'constant interface (implicitly static final, no import)',
+      `package com.x;
+public interface ApiPathConstants { String SAVE = "/api/v1/save"; }`,
+    ],
+    [
+      'lowercase interface name',
+      `package com.x;
+public interface apiPaths { String SAVE = "/api/v1/save"; }`,
+    ],
+    [
+      'reversed modifier order',
+      `package com.x;
+public class P { public final static String SAVE = "/api/v1/save"; }`,
+    ],
+    [
+      'conventional order',
+      `package com.x;
+public class P { public static final String SAVE = "/api/v1/save"; }`,
+    ],
+  ] as const;
+
+  it.each(shapes)('admits %s on BOTH sides', (_name, src) => {
+    expect(isJavaConstantFile(src)).toBe(true);
+    // The provider hook is what the parse worker actually calls — drive it,
+    // not just the regex, so the gate itself is covered and not only the
+    // extractor behind it.
+    expect(javaProvider.moduleConstantHeuristic?.(src)).toBe(true);
+    expect(extractJavaModuleConstants(parse(src)).literals.get('SAVE')).toBe('/api/v1/save');
+  });
+
+  it('still skips a file with no constant-bearing syntax', () => {
+    const src = `package com.x;
+public class P { void run() { System.out.println("/not-a-constant"); } }`;
+    expect(isJavaConstantFile(src)).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('resolveJavaImport honours the documented skip floor (review P2)', () => {
+  it('returns null when the same package+class exists in two modules', () => {
+    // A nearest-shared-directory tie-break used to pick one. javac resolves
+    // duplicate FQNs by classpath order, so proximity can hand back a
+    // src/test fixture copy — a silently wrong literal in a resolver whose
+    // contract is skip-or-correct.
+    const keys = new Set([
+      'svc-order/src/main/java/com/x/ApiPaths.java',
+      'svc-user/src/main/java/com/x/ApiPaths.java',
+    ]);
+    expect(
+      resolveJavaImport(
+        'svc-order/src/main/java/com/x/web/OrderController.java',
+        'com.x.ApiPaths',
+        keys,
+      ),
+    ).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('still resolves a unique full-suffix match', () => {
+    const keys = new Set([
+      'svc-order/src/main/java/com/x/ApiPaths.java',
+      'svc-user/src/main/java/com/y/ApiPaths.java',
+    ]);
+    expect(
+      resolveJavaImport(
+        'svc-order/src/main/java/com/x/web/OrderController.java',
+        'com.x.ApiPaths',
+        keys,
+      ),
+    ).toBe('svc-order/src/main/java/com/x/ApiPaths.java');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('enum and record constants are collected', () => {
+  it.each([
+    ['enum', 'public enum E { A, B; public static final String P = "/e"; }', 'E'],
+    ['record', 'public record R(int x) { public static final String P = "/r"; }', 'R'],
+  ])('harvests a static final String declared in a %s', (_kind, src, owner) => {
+    const mc = extractJavaModuleConstants(parse(src));
+    expect(mc.literals.get('P')).toBe(src.includes('enum') ? '/e' : '/r');
+    expect(mc.literals.get(`${owner}.P`)).toBe(src.includes('enum') ? '/e' : '/r');
+  });
+
+  it('does not harvest a non-static field of a record', () => {
+    const mc = extractJavaModuleConstants(parse('public record R(int x) { String p = "/r"; }'));
+    expect(mc.literals.has('p')).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('constants composed across files through a qualified ref', () => {
+  it('folds `X = BConsts.Y + "/tail"` across the import', () => {
+    // Operands found INSIDE an initializer used to go straight to the agnostic
+    // fold, which only knows bare names — so a qualified operand missed and
+    // floored the whole chain to null, even acyclically.
+    const repo = repoOf({
+      'src/com/example/AConsts.java': `package com.example;
+import com.example.BConsts;
+public class AConsts { public static final String X = BConsts.Y + "/tail"; }`,
+      'src/com/example/BConsts.java': `package com.example;
+public class BConsts { public static final String Y = "/y"; }`,
+    });
+    expect(resolveJavaConstant('src/com/example/AConsts.java', 'X', repo)).toBe('/y/tail');
+    expect(
+      foldJavaOperands('src/com/example/AConsts.java', [{ kind: 'ref', name: 'AConsts.X' }], repo),
+    ).toBe('/y/tail');
+  });
+
+  it('a missing link in the chain still floors to null', () => {
+    const repo = repoOf({
+      'src/com/example/AConsts.java': `package com.example;
+import com.example.BConsts;
+public class AConsts { public static final String X = BConsts.MISSING + "/tail"; }`,
+      'src/com/example/BConsts.java': `package com.example;
+public class BConsts { public static final String Y = "/y"; }`,
+    });
+    expect(resolveJavaConstant('src/com/example/AConsts.java', 'X', repo)).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('the fold is bounded in time as well as depth', () => {
+  it('folds a 30-level shared-descendant DAG instead of exploring 2^30 paths', () => {
+    // `X_k = X_{k+1} + X_{k+1}` re-folds each child once per reference without a
+    // memo — O(2^depth). MAX_FOLD_LENGTH cannot save it here because every
+    // intermediate value is the EMPTY string, so nothing ever accumulates.
+    // Un-memoized this took 2.7 s at 26 levels and 11 s at 28, on the main
+    // thread, for one route. The assertion is the explicit timeout below: a
+    // regression does not fail this test slowly, it fails it.
+    const lines = ['public static final String X30 = "";'];
+    for (let i = 29; i >= 0; i--) {
+      lines.push(`public static final String X${i} = X${i + 1} + X${i + 1};`);
+    }
+    const repo = repoOf({ 'C.java': `public class C {\n${lines.join('\n')}\n}` });
+    expect(resolveJavaConstant('C.java', 'X0', repo)).toBe('');
+  }, 5_000);
+
+  it('still caps a chain that genuinely produces a huge string', () => {
+    const lines = ['public static final String X30 = "a";'];
+    for (let i = 29; i >= 0; i--) {
+      lines.push(`public static final String X${i} = X${i + 1} + X${i + 1};`);
+    }
+    const repo = repoOf({ 'C.java': `public class C {\n${lines.join('\n')}\n}` });
+    expect(resolveJavaConstant('C.java', 'X0', repo)).toBeNull();
+  }, 5_000);
+});
+
+describe('text blocks keep the skip floor', () => {
+  it('does not fold a text-block constant into a path with newlines and indentation', () => {
+    // `unquoteSpringLiteral` has a `"""` arm that slices 3/-3, which would hand
+    // back the raw block — leading newline and incidental indentation included,
+    // both of which Java strips — and nothing downstream normalizes it. The old
+    // fragment-join returned '' here, i.e. a skip; keep the skip.
+    const src = [
+      'public class C {',
+      '  public static final String X = """',
+      '      /api/v1/tb',
+      '      """;',
+      '}',
+    ].join('\n');
+    expect(extractJavaModuleConstants(parse(src)).literals.has('X')).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/python-const-resolver.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/python-const-resolver.test.ts
index 1f850567e..2a98b926d 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/python-const-resolver.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/python-const-resolver.test.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import {
   type ImportBinding,
   type RepoConstants,
 } from '../../src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/python-const-resolver.js';
+import { pythonProvider } from '../../src/core/ingestion/languages/python.js';
 
 const lit = (value: string): Operand => ({ kind: 'literal', value });
 const ref = (name: string): Operand => ({ kind: 'ref', name });
@@ -377,3 +378,28 @@ describe('extractPythonModuleConstants — source-order snapshot (#2393)', () =>
     expect(resolveConstant('m.py', 'C', r)).toBe('/a/b/c');
   });
 });
+
+describe('the Python provider harvests unconditionally (#2980 review P2)', () => {
+  // A cheap content gate was added on the provider here and removed on review.
+  // It required NAME immediately followed by `=`, so it silently dropped the
+  // idiomatic typed-FastAPI shapes and every composed constant whose RHS starts
+  // with an identifier — i.e. it REGRESSED routes that already resolve on main.
+  // The parse worker treats a missing heuristic as "harvest"; pin that here so
+  // the gate cannot come back without a decision.
+  it('declares no moduleConstantHeuristic', () => {
+    expect(pythonProvider.moduleConstantHeuristic).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ['plain', 'API = "/api/v1"\nUSERS = API + "/users"\n'],
+    ['PEP 526 annotated', 'API: str = "/api/v1"\nUSERS: str = API + "/users"\n'],
+    [
+      'Final-annotated',
+      'from typing import Final\nAPI: Final[str] = "/api/v1"\nUSERS: Final[str] = API + "/users"\n',
+    ],
+    ['composed, identifier RHS', 'API = _base()\nUSERS = API + "/users"\n'],
+  ])('still reaches the extractor for the %s shape', (_name, src) => {
+    const mc = extract(src);
+    expect(mc.literals.size + mc.exprs.size + mc.imports.size).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+});