diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/manifest-extractor.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/manifest-extractor.ts
index 80d4a8323..b65b7712d 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/manifest-extractor.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/manifest-extractor.ts
@@ -269,14 +269,13 @@ export class ManifestExtractor {
           { contract: link.contract },
         );
       } else if (link.type === 'custom') {
-        // Exact name match on code symbols (Struct, Enum, Trait, Function,
-        // Class, Interface, Method). Excludes File/Folder/Community/Process
-        // to avoid false positives from non-symbol nodes that happen to
-        // share the name. Useful for Rust cross-crate types and other
-        // language-agnostic cross-repo contracts.
+        // V1: exact name-only match on code-definition nodes.
+        // Positive allowlist mirrors other contract types. If multiple code
+        // symbols share the same name, ORDER BY filePath ASC LIMIT 1 picks
+        // the alphabetically-first occurrence deterministically.
         rows = await executor(
-          `MATCH (n) WHERE n.name = $contract
-           AND NOT n:File AND NOT n:Folder AND NOT n:Community AND NOT n:Process
+          `MATCH (n:Function|Method|Class|Interface|Struct|Enum|Trait|Constructor|TypeAlias|Impl|Macro|Union|Typedef|Property|Record|Delegate|Annotation|Template|Const|Static|CodeElement)
+           WHERE n.name = $contract
            RETURN n.id AS uid, n.name AS name, n.filePath AS filePath
            ORDER BY n.filePath ASC
            LIMIT 1`,
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/group/manifest-extractor.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/group/manifest-extractor.test.ts
index 3a358894a..997445f2e 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/group/manifest-extractor.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/group/manifest-extractor.test.ts
@@ -665,6 +665,77 @@ describe('ManifestExtractor', () => {
     expect(provider?.symbolUid).toBe('manifest::core/units::custom::Dimension');
   });
 
+  it('custom contract query uses positive label allowlist (not negative exclusion)', async () => {
+    const links: GroupManifestLink[] = [
+      {
+        from: 'parser/mathlex',
+        to: 'engine/thales',
+        type: 'custom',
+        contract: 'Route',
+        role: 'provider',
+      },
+    ];
+    let capturedCypher = '';
+    const dbExecutors = new Map<
+      string,
+      (cypher: string, params?: Record<string, unknown>) => Promise<Record<string, unknown>[]>
+    >([
+      [
+        'parser/mathlex',
+        async (cypher) => {
+          capturedCypher = cypher;
+          return [];
+        },
+      ],
+      ['engine/thales', async () => []],
+    ]);
+
+    await extractor.extractFromManifest(links, dbExecutors);
+
+    expect(capturedCypher).toContain('Function|Method|Class|Interface|Struct|Enum|Trait');
+    expect(capturedCypher).not.toContain('NOT n:File');
+  });
+
+  it('custom contract with ambiguous name returns first-by-filePath deterministically', async () => {
+    const links: GroupManifestLink[] = [
+      {
+        from: 'parser/mathlex',
+        to: 'engine/thales',
+        type: 'custom',
+        contract: 'Token',
+        role: 'provider',
+      },
+    ];
+
+    const dbExecutors = new Map<
+      string,
+      (cypher: string, params?: Record<string, unknown>) => Promise<Record<string, unknown>[]>
+    >([
+      [
+        'parser/mathlex',
+        async (_cypher, params) => {
+          if (params?.contract === 'Token') {
+            return [{ uid: 'uid-token-first', name: 'Token', filePath: 'src/ast.rs' }];
+          }
+          return [];
+        },
+      ],
+      [
+        'engine/thales',
+        async (_cypher, params) => {
+          if (params?.contract === 'Token') {
+            return [{ uid: 'uid-token-consumer', name: 'Token', filePath: 'src/lexer.rs' }];
+          }
+          return [];
+        },
+      ],
+    ]);
+
+    const result = await extractor.extractFromManifest(links, dbExecutors);
+    const provider = result.contracts.find((c) => c.role === 'provider');
+    expect(provider?.symbolUid).toBe('uid-token-first');
+  });
+
   it('returns empty for no links', async () => {
     const result = await extractor.extractFromManifest([]);
     expect(result.contracts).toHaveLength(0);