diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/utils/callable-flow-captures.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/utils/callable-flow-captures.ts
index ccb44b037..b62b6ff20 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/utils/callable-flow-captures.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/utils/callable-flow-captures.ts
@@ -216,7 +216,15 @@ export function synthesizeCallableFlowCaptures(
 
   const out: CaptureMatch[] = [];
   for (const assignment of assignments) {
-    emitAssignmentFact(assignment, knownCallableNames, valueBindings, options, out);
+    for (const source of valueAlternatives(assignment.source)) {
+      emitAssignmentFact(
+        { ...assignment, source },
+        knownCallableNames,
+        valueBindings,
+        options,
+        out,
+      );
+    }
   }
   for (const fn of functions) emitFormalFacts(fn, options, out);
   for (const node of nodes) {
@@ -587,6 +595,34 @@ function assignmentParts(
   return [{ container: node, destination, source }];
 }
 
+/** Operators whose result is one of their operands, not a computed value. */
+const VALUE_SELECTING_OPERATORS = new Set(['??', '||', 'or', '?:']);
+
+/**
+ * The operands a value-selecting expression can evaluate to (#3354):
+ * `a ?? b`, `a || b`, `a or b`, and `c ? a : b` each yield one of their
+ * branches, so each branch flows into the destination. Anything else is its
+ * own single alternative, which leaves every other source shape untouched.
+ */
+function valueAlternatives(node: SyntaxNode): SyntaxNode[] {
+  let inner = node;
+  while (inner.type.includes('parenthesized') && inner.namedChildCount === 1) {
+    inner = inner.namedChild(0)!;
+  }
+  const consequence = inner.childForFieldName('consequence');
+  const alternative = inner.childForFieldName('alternative');
+  if (consequence !== null && alternative !== null && inner.childForFieldName('condition')) {
+    return [...valueAlternatives(consequence), ...valueAlternatives(alternative)];
+  }
+  const left = inner.childForFieldName('left');
+  const right = inner.childForFieldName('right');
+  const operator = inner.childForFieldName('operator')?.type;
+  if (left !== null && right !== null && operator && VALUE_SELECTING_OPERATORS.has(operator)) {
+    return [...valueAlternatives(left), ...valueAlternatives(right)];
+  }
+  return [node];
+}
+
 function emitAssignmentFact(
   assignment: AssignmentParts,
   knownCallableNames: ReadonlySet<string>,
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/mcp/local/local-backend.ts b/gitnexus/src/mcp/local/local-backend.ts
index 31720337f..061c3c70d 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/mcp/local/local-backend.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/mcp/local/local-backend.ts
@@ -4431,7 +4431,10 @@ export class LocalBackend {
       }
     | { kind: 'not_found' }
   > {
-    const { uid, name, include_content } = query;
+    const { name, include_content } = query;
+    // A blank uid is an omitted optional field (strict adapters send " "/""),
+    // not a lookup key — fall through to the name instead of `not_found`.
+    const uid = query.uid?.trim();
     const selectClause = `n.id AS id, n.name AS name, labels(n)[0] AS type, n.filePath AS filePath, n.startLine AS startLine, n.endLine AS endLine${include_content ? ', n.content AS content' : ''}`;
 
     // Direct UID — zero-ambiguity path.
@@ -7194,7 +7197,7 @@ export class LocalBackend {
     );
 
     if (outcome.kind === 'not_found') {
-      const missing = params.target_uid ?? target;
+      const missing = params.target_uid?.trim() || target;
       // not_found = no resolved symbol, so the envelope keeps the partial-but-
       // typed target (typed PdgImpactTarget — there is no id/type/filePath yet).
       const notFoundTarget: PdgImpactTarget = { name: target };
@@ -8017,6 +8020,14 @@ export class LocalBackend {
     const confidenceFilter = safeMinConfidence > 0 ? ' AND r.confidence >= $minConfidence' : '';
 
     const symId = sym.id || sym[0];
+    // #3354: a walk with no anchor id cannot say anything about THIS symbol,
+    // yet it still ships a normal-looking `exact` result with the target's
+    // name echoed back. Throw so every caller's catch reports UNKNOWN instead.
+    if (!symId) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `Impact target '${sym.name || sym[1] || '?'}' resolved without a node id; refusing to report a blast radius`,
+      );
+    }
 
     // #1858 — kick off the epistemic boundary probe concurrently with the BFS.
     // It depends only on symId/symType/symName (all known now) and touches no
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
index 7e91cee4c..e7a6645c6 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
@@ -778,7 +778,11 @@ import { copyV8CacheIfPresent, tryLoadV8Cache, writeV8CacheFile } from './v8-sid
 // v104 (#3339 review): TS/JS pair-HOC queries now name object-pair
 // `mutation(withAuth(arrow))` handlers. Warm caches replay the pre-fix
 // capture set (anonymous arrows, no Function name), so both stores re-extract.
-const SCHEMA_BUMP = 104;
+// v112 (#3354): callable-value flow now follows each branch of `a ?? f`,
+// `a || f`, and `c ? f : g`. Warm caches replay the pre-fix flow facts, which
+// have no flow for those assignments, so both stores re-extract. 105-111 are
+// claimed by open PR #3326 (Elixir).
+const SCHEMA_BUMP = 112;
 const GITNEXUS_PKG_VERSION = (() => {
   try {
     // package.json sits at gitnexus/package.json — two levels up from
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-callable-alternatives/index.ts b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-callable-alternatives/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..be47f8e38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-callable-alternatives/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import { runSweep, runAlias, runOr, runThen, runElse } from './sweep';
+
+type Handler = (env: unknown) => Promise<void>;
+
+export async function aliasOnly(env: unknown) {
+  const run = runAlias;
+  await run(env);
+}
+
+export async function nullish(env: { __sweep?: Handler }) {
+  const sweep = env.__sweep ?? runSweep;
+  await sweep(env);
+}
+
+export async function logicalOr(env: { override?: Handler }) {
+  const run = env.override || runOr;
+  await run(env);
+}
+
+export async function ternary(env: unknown, fast: boolean) {
+  const run = fast ? runThen : runElse;
+  await run(env);
+}
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-callable-alternatives/sweep/index.ts b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-callable-alternatives/sweep/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..10b6950ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-callable-alternatives/sweep/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+export async function runSweep(env: unknown): Promise<void> {}
+export async function runAlias(env: unknown): Promise<void> {}
+export async function runOr(env: unknown): Promise<void> {}
+export async function runThen(env: unknown): Promise<void> {}
+export async function runElse(env: unknown): Promise<void> {}
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-callable-alternatives/worker.ts b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-callable-alternatives/worker.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8e51fe4a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-callable-alternatives/worker.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import { runSweep } from './sweep';
+
+// The reporter's shape: a Cloudflare worker's default-export object whose
+// `scheduled` handler lets tests inject a replacement sweep.
+export default {
+  async scheduled(_c: unknown, env: { __sweep?: typeof runSweep }) {
+    const sweep = env.__sweep ?? runSweep;
+    await sweep(env);
+  },
+};
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/typescript-callable-alternatives.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/typescript-callable-alternatives.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2cc102e9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/typescript-callable-alternatives.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/**
+ * TypeScript: a callable chosen by a value-selecting expression (#3354).
+ *
+ * `const sweep = env.__sweep ?? runSweep; await sweep(env)` is how the
+ * reporter's Cloudflare worker made its sweep injectable in tests. The
+ * callable-value flow only accepted a single designator on the right-hand
+ * side, so the `??` produced no flow, `scheduled` never showed up as a caller
+ * of `runSweep`, and `impact` answered with one caller fewer while still
+ * claiming `epistemic: "exact"`. Each branch of `??`, `||`, and `?:` can be
+ * the value that is later invoked, so each branch is a flow into the binding.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll } from 'vitest';
+import path from 'path';
+import {
+  FIXTURES,
+  getRelationships,
+  edgeSet,
+  runPipelineFromRepo,
+  type PipelineResult,
+} from './helpers.js';
+
+describe('TypeScript callable chosen by ?? / || / ?:', () => {
+  let result: PipelineResult;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    result = await runPipelineFromRepo(
+      path.join(FIXTURES, 'typescript-callable-alternatives'),
+      () => {},
+    );
+  }, 60000);
+
+  const calls = () => edgeSet(getRelationships(result, 'CALLS'));
+
+  it('control: a plain alias reaches its callee', () => {
+    expect(calls()).toContain('aliasOnly → runAlias');
+  });
+
+  it('`a ?? fn` reaches fn', () => {
+    expect(calls()).toContain('nullish → runSweep');
+  });
+
+  it('`a ?? fn` inside an object-literal method reaches fn (worker `scheduled`)', () => {
+    expect(calls()).toContain('scheduled → runSweep');
+  });
+
+  it('`a || fn` reaches fn', () => {
+    expect(calls()).toContain('logicalOr → runOr');
+  });
+
+  it('`c ? f : g` reaches both branches', () => {
+    expect(calls()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['ternary → runThen', 'ternary → runElse']));
+  });
+});
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/calltool-dispatch.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/calltool-dispatch.test.ts
index 8e688c45d..b42cae8e3 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/calltool-dispatch.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/calltool-dispatch.test.ts
@@ -622,6 +622,38 @@ describe('LocalBackend.callTool', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it('reports UNKNOWN instead of a blast radius when the target resolves without a node id (#3354)', async () => {
+    // Every query returns the same id-less row: the resolver picks it as the
+    // single match, and the frontier query would answer for no symbol at all.
+    (executeParameterized as any).mockResolvedValue([{ name: 'runSweep', type: 'Function' }]);
+
+    const result = await backend.callTool('impact', { target: 'runSweep', direction: 'upstream' });
+
+    expect(result).toMatchObject({
+      target: { name: 'runSweep' },
+      impactedCount: null,
+      risk: 'UNKNOWN',
+    });
+    expect(result.error).toMatch(/without a node id/);
+    expect(result).not.toHaveProperty('byDepthCounts');
+  });
+
+  it('treats a whitespace target_uid as omitted and resolves the name (#3354)', async () => {
+    (executeParameterized as any).mockResolvedValue([]);
+
+    const result = await backend.callTool('impact', {
+      target: 'validate',
+      target_uid: ' ',
+      direction: 'upstream',
+    });
+
+    // Name resolution ran (no rows → not found by NAME), not a lookup of uid ' '.
+    expect(result.error).toBe("Target 'validate' not found");
+    const boundParams = (executeParameterized as any).mock.calls.map((c: unknown[]) => c[2]);
+    expect(boundParams).not.toContainEqual(expect.objectContaining({ uid: expect.anything() }));
+    expect(boundParams).toContainEqual(expect.objectContaining({ symName: 'validate' }));
+  });
+
   it('normalizes impact aliases before @group forwarding', async () => {
     resolveAtMemberMock.mockResolvedValue({ ok: true, repoPath: '/tmp/test-project' });
     const groupImpactSpy = vi
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
index 879af7a38..55549332e 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
@@ -288,8 +288,10 @@ describe('PARSE_CACHE_VERSION', () => {
   // Moved 103 -> 104 for #3339 review: pair-HOC queries name
   // `mutation(withAuth(arrow))` object-pair handlers. Warm caches replay
   // anonymous arrows, so both stores re-extract.
-  it('pins SCHEMA_BUMP to 104 so concurrent bumps cannot silently collide (#2766, #3015, #3088, #2885, #3128, #2865, #3130, #1432, #3161, #3179, #3219, #3190, #3253, #3273, #3339)', () => {
-    expect(Number(PARSE_CACHE_VERSION.split('+', 1)[0])).toBe(104);
+  // Moved 104 -> 112 for #3354: callable-value flow follows `??`/`||`/`?:`
+  // branches. 105-111 are claimed by open PR #3326.
+  it('pins SCHEMA_BUMP to 112 so concurrent bumps cannot silently collide (#2766, #3015, #3088, #2885, #3128, #2865, #3130, #1432, #3161, #3179, #3219, #3190, #3253, #3273, #3339, #3354)', () => {
+    expect(Number(PARSE_CACHE_VERSION.split('+', 1)[0])).toBe(112);
     expect(PARSE_CACHE_BUCKET_COUNT).toBe(128);
     // The PREVIOUS version must fail the reuse gate, not merely differ from the
     // current one — a hardcoded number outside the conflict hunk rebases cleanly
@@ -298,6 +300,7 @@ describe('PARSE_CACHE_VERSION', () => {
     for (const taken of [
       59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81,
       82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103,
+      104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111,
     ]) {
       expect(Number(PARSE_CACHE_VERSION.split('+', 1)[0])).not.toBe(taken);
     }