diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/cpp/adl.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/cpp/adl.ts
index 4c7b034b6..0eac14f05 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/cpp/adl.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/cpp/adl.ts
@@ -15,14 +15,13 @@
  *
  * ## Current boundary
  *
- * The current implementation covers ONE associated-entity rule: an argument that's a directly-named
- * class type (`audit::Event e`) contributes its **direct enclosing
- * namespace** to the candidate set. V2 extends that one step to
- * pointer-typed class args (`audit::Event* p`, `audit::Event** pp`):
- * they contribute the pointee class's enclosing namespace too. Reference
- * arguments, function-pointer arguments, template specializations,
- * base-class associated namespaces, and the rest of the full closure are
- * still deliberately excluded.
+ * The current implementation covers class-typed arguments (value and pointer)
+ * and template specializations with explicit type arguments:
+ *   - `audit::Event e`, `audit::Event* p`, `audit::Event** pp`
+ *   - `std::vector<audit::Event>` (template namespace + template-arg namespaces)
+ *
+ * Reference arguments, function-pointer arguments, base-class associated
+ * namespaces, and the rest of the full closure are still deliberately excluded.
  *
  * The current implementation also short-circuits to ADL only when ordinary lookup is empty
  * (`findCallableBindingInScope` returned undefined). ISO C++ would
@@ -67,13 +66,25 @@ import {
  */
 export interface CppAdlArgInfo {
   /** Simple class-like type name (last segment of qualified name); empty
-   *  for primitives, literals, function pointers, template specs, etc. */
+   *  for primitives, literals, function pointers, etc. */
   readonly simpleClassName: string;
   /** True when the variable's declarator contained one or more
    *  `pointer_declarator` wrappers. */
   readonly isPointer: boolean;
   /** True when the variable's declarator was a `reference_declarator`. */
   readonly isReference: boolean;
+  /** Template's own simple class-like name (e.g. `vector` for
+   *  `std::vector<N::T>`), empty when arg type is not a template spec. */
+  readonly templateSimpleClassName: string;
+  /** Template's own enclosing namespace (dot-qualified, e.g. `std`), empty
+   *  when unavailable / unqualified. */
+  readonly templateNamespace: string;
+  /** Class-like names extracted from explicit type template arguments,
+   *  recursively bounded. */
+  readonly templateArgClassNames: readonly string[];
+  /** Enclosing namespaces extracted from explicit type template arguments,
+   *  recursively bounded. */
+  readonly templateArgNamespaces: readonly string[];
 }
 
 const argInfoBySite = new Map<string, readonly CppAdlArgInfo[]>();
@@ -174,12 +185,28 @@ export function pickCppAdlCandidates(
   // Collect associated namespace QNames from every participating class-typed arg.
   const associatedNamespaces = new Set<string>();
   for (const arg of args) {
-    if (arg.simpleClassName === '') continue;
     if (arg.isReference) continue;
-    const classDef = findCppClassDefBySimpleName(arg.simpleClassName, scopes);
-    if (classDef === undefined) continue;
-    const nsQName = classToNamespaceQualifiedName.get(classDef.nodeId);
-    if (nsQName !== undefined) associatedNamespaces.add(nsQName);
+
+    if (arg.simpleClassName !== '') {
+      const classDef = findCppClassDefBySimpleName(arg.simpleClassName, scopes);
+      if (classDef !== undefined) {
+        const nsQName = classToNamespaceQualifiedName.get(classDef.nodeId);
+        if (nsQName !== undefined) associatedNamespaces.add(nsQName);
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (arg.templateNamespace.length > 0) associatedNamespaces.add(arg.templateNamespace);
+
+    for (const ns of arg.templateArgNamespaces) {
+      if (ns.length > 0) associatedNamespaces.add(ns);
+    }
+    for (const className of arg.templateArgClassNames) {
+      if (className.length === 0) continue;
+      const classDef = findCppClassDefBySimpleName(className, scopes);
+      if (classDef === undefined) continue;
+      const nsQName = classToNamespaceQualifiedName.get(classDef.nodeId);
+      if (nsQName !== undefined) associatedNamespaces.add(nsQName);
+    }
   }
   if (associatedNamespaces.size === 0) return undefined;
 
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/cpp/captures.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/cpp/captures.ts
index 17b6962aa..fe6067dbe 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/cpp/captures.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/cpp/captures.ts
@@ -743,7 +743,16 @@ function inferCppCallAdlArgs(callNode: SyntaxNode): CppAdlArgInfo[] {
   return out;
 }
 
-const EMPTY_ADL_ARG: CppAdlArgInfo = { simpleClassName: '', isPointer: false, isReference: false };
+const ADL_TEMPLATE_RECURSION_MAX_DEPTH = 8;
+const EMPTY_ADL_ARG: CppAdlArgInfo = {
+  simpleClassName: '',
+  isPointer: false,
+  isReference: false,
+  templateSimpleClassName: '',
+  templateNamespace: '',
+  templateArgClassNames: [],
+  templateArgNamespaces: [],
+};
 
 function classifyAdlArg(argNode: SyntaxNode): CppAdlArgInfo {
   // Literals and primitive-shaped expressions never have associated namespaces.
@@ -848,29 +857,177 @@ function lookupAdlIdentifierType(identNode: SyntaxNode): CppAdlArgInfo {
     if (isFunctionPointer || nameText !== varName) continue;
 
     const simpleClassName = extractAdlSimpleTypeName(typeNode);
-    return { simpleClassName, isPointer, isReference };
+    const {
+      templateSimpleClassName,
+      templateNamespace,
+      templateArgClassNames,
+      templateArgNamespaces,
+    } = extractAdlTemplateInfo(typeNode);
+    return {
+      simpleClassName,
+      isPointer,
+      isReference,
+      templateSimpleClassName,
+      templateNamespace,
+      templateArgClassNames,
+      templateArgNamespaces,
+    };
   }
   return EMPTY_ADL_ARG;
 }
 
 /** Extract the simple class-like type name from a `type:` field node.
- *  Returns '' for primitives, template specializations, and any other
+ *  Returns '' for primitives and any other
  *  unsupported type-only shape. Function pointers are filtered at the
  *  declarator level in `lookupAdlIdentifierType`. */
 function extractAdlSimpleTypeName(typeNode: SyntaxNode): string {
+  if (typeNode.type === 'type_descriptor') {
+    const innerType = typeNode.childForFieldName('type');
+    if (innerType !== null) return extractAdlSimpleTypeName(innerType);
+    for (let i = 0; i < typeNode.childCount; i++) {
+      const child = typeNode.child(i);
+      if (child === null) continue;
+      if (
+        child.type === 'type_identifier' ||
+        child.type === 'qualified_identifier' ||
+        child.type === 'template_type'
+      ) {
+        return extractAdlSimpleTypeName(child);
+      }
+    }
+    return '';
+  }
   if (typeNode.type === 'primitive_type') return '';
   if (typeNode.type === 'sized_type_specifier') return '';
   if (typeNode.type === 'type_identifier') return typeNode.text;
+  if (typeNode.type === 'template_type') {
+    const nameNode = typeNode.childForFieldName('name');
+    if (nameNode !== null) return extractAdlSimpleTypeName(nameNode);
+    const id = findFirstDescendantOfType(typeNode, 'type_identifier');
+    return id !== null ? id.text : '';
+  }
   if (typeNode.type === 'qualified_identifier') {
     const nameNode = typeNode.childForFieldName('name');
     if (nameNode !== null) return extractAdlSimpleTypeName(nameNode);
     const id = findFirstDescendantOfType(typeNode, 'type_identifier');
     return id !== null ? id.text : '';
   }
-  // template_type (e.g. `vector<int>`), function pointers, decltype — V1 excludes.
+  // Function pointers, decltype, etc — unsupported for ADL participation.
   return '';
 }
 
+function extractAdlTypeNamespace(typeNode: SyntaxNode): string {
+  if (typeNode.type === 'type_descriptor') {
+    const innerType = typeNode.childForFieldName('type');
+    if (innerType !== null) return extractAdlTypeNamespace(innerType);
+    for (let i = 0; i < typeNode.childCount; i++) {
+      const child = typeNode.child(i);
+      if (child === null) continue;
+      if (
+        child.type === 'qualified_identifier' ||
+        child.type === 'template_type' ||
+        child.type === 'type_identifier'
+      ) {
+        return extractAdlTypeNamespace(child);
+      }
+    }
+    return '';
+  }
+  if (typeNode.type === 'template_type') {
+    const nameNode = typeNode.childForFieldName('name');
+    return nameNode !== null ? extractAdlTypeNamespace(nameNode) : '';
+  }
+  if (typeNode.type === 'qualified_identifier') {
+    const scope = typeNode.childForFieldName('scope');
+    if (scope !== null) return normalizeCppNamespaceQName(scope.text);
+    return extractNamespaceFromQualifiedText(typeNode.text);
+  }
+  return '';
+}
+
+function extractAdlTemplateInfo(typeNode: SyntaxNode): {
+  templateSimpleClassName: string;
+  templateNamespace: string;
+  templateArgClassNames: string[];
+  templateArgNamespaces: string[];
+} {
+  const templateTypeNode = findTemplateTypeNode(typeNode);
+  if (templateTypeNode === null) {
+    return {
+      templateSimpleClassName: '',
+      templateNamespace: '',
+      templateArgClassNames: [],
+      templateArgNamespaces: [],
+    };
+  }
+  const templateArgClassNames: string[] = [];
+  const templateArgNamespaces: string[] = [];
+  collectAdlTemplateArgs(templateTypeNode, 0, templateArgClassNames, templateArgNamespaces);
+  return {
+    templateSimpleClassName: extractAdlSimpleTypeName(templateTypeNode),
+    templateNamespace: extractAdlTypeNamespace(typeNode),
+    templateArgClassNames,
+    templateArgNamespaces,
+  };
+}
+
+function collectAdlTemplateArgs(
+  templateTypeNode: SyntaxNode,
+  depth: number,
+  outClassNames: string[],
+  outNamespaces: string[],
+): void {
+  if (depth >= ADL_TEMPLATE_RECURSION_MAX_DEPTH) return;
+  if (templateTypeNode.type !== 'template_type') return;
+
+  const argList =
+    templateTypeNode.childForFieldName('arguments') ??
+    findChildOfType(templateTypeNode, ['template_argument_list']);
+  if (argList === null) return;
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < argList.namedChildCount; i++) {
+    const arg = argList.namedChild(i);
+    if (arg === null || arg.type !== 'type_descriptor') continue;
+    const simpleClassName = extractAdlSimpleTypeName(arg);
+    if (simpleClassName.length > 0) outClassNames.push(simpleClassName);
+    const ns = extractAdlTypeNamespace(arg);
+    if (ns.length > 0) outNamespaces.push(ns);
+
+    const nestedType = arg.childForFieldName('type');
+    const nestedTemplate = nestedType !== null ? findTemplateTypeNode(nestedType) : null;
+    if (nestedTemplate !== null) {
+      collectAdlTemplateArgs(nestedTemplate, depth + 1, outClassNames, outNamespaces);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+function findTemplateTypeNode(typeNode: SyntaxNode): SyntaxNode | null {
+  if (typeNode.type === 'template_type') return typeNode;
+  if (typeNode.type === 'type_descriptor') {
+    const innerType = typeNode.childForFieldName('type');
+    if (innerType !== null) return findTemplateTypeNode(innerType);
+    return null;
+  }
+  if (typeNode.type === 'qualified_identifier') {
+    const nameNode = typeNode.childForFieldName('name');
+    if (nameNode !== null) return findTemplateTypeNode(nameNode);
+    return null;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+function normalizeCppNamespaceQName(text: string): string {
+  const normalized = text.replace(/^::/, '').replace(/::$/, '').replace(/::/g, '.');
+  return normalized;
+}
+
+function extractNamespaceFromQualifiedText(text: string): string {
+  const cleaned = text.replace(/\s+/g, '');
+  const idx = cleaned.lastIndexOf('::');
+  if (idx <= 0) return '';
+  return normalizeCppNamespaceQName(cleaned.slice(0, idx));
+}
+
 /**
  * Check if a C++ function_definition or declaration has `static` storage class.
  */
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/cpp-adl-template-args/app.cpp b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/cpp-adl-template-args/app.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..91af89399
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/cpp-adl-template-args/app.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#include "audit.h"
+
+namespace app {
+  void run() {
+    std::vector<N::T> v;
+    apply(v);
+  }
+
+  void runNested() {
+    std::map<std::string, std::vector<N::T>> m;
+    applyNested(m);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/cpp-adl-template-args/audit.h b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/cpp-adl-template-args/audit.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c229879e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/cpp-adl-template-args/audit.h
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#include <map>
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace N {
+  struct T {};
+
+  void apply(std::vector<T> v);
+  void applyNested(std::map<std::string, std::vector<T>> m);
+}
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/cpp.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/cpp.test.ts
index cd95cfae7..fa92f9b92 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/cpp.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/cpp.test.ts
@@ -2228,6 +2228,28 @@ describe('C++ ADL — pointer-to-pointer args participate', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('C++ ADL — template specialization args contribute associated namespaces', () => {
+  let result: PipelineResult;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    result = await runPipelineFromRepo(path.join(FIXTURES, 'cpp-adl-template-args'), () => {});
+  }, 60000);
+
+  it('apply(v) where v is std::vector<N::T> resolves to N::apply via ADL template-arg namespace', () => {
+    const calls = getRelationships(result, 'CALLS');
+    const applyCalls = calls.filter((c) => c.source === 'run' && c.target === 'apply');
+    expect(applyCalls.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(applyCalls[0].targetFilePath).toContain('audit.h');
+  });
+
+  it('applyNested(m) where m is std::map<std::string, std::vector<N::T>> resolves via nested template-arg namespace', () => {
+    const calls = getRelationships(result, 'CALLS');
+    const applyCalls = calls.filter((c) => c.source === 'runNested' && c.target === 'applyNested');
+    expect(applyCalls.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(applyCalls[0].targetFilePath).toContain('audit.h');
+  });
+});
+
 describe('C++ ADL — int/long-collision overloads suppress via OVERLOAD_AMBIGUOUS', () => {
   let result: PipelineResult;