diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/javascript/query.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/javascript/query.ts
index 5b0b5cb1a..c2db3a8c7 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/javascript/query.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/javascript/query.ts
@@ -647,6 +647,39 @@ export const JAVASCRIPT_SCOPE_QUERY = `
       key: (property_identifier) @reference.name
         @reference.read.destructured)) @reference.receiver)
 
+;; Object-literal keys in RECORD CONSTRUCTION position (R2-1b). Building
+;; \`{ exitContract: { exitMinAtrMult: settings.x } }\` SETS that field, so this
+;; is the write counterpart to the destructured read above — without it
+;; "who reads this setting?" answers well and "who SETS it?" misses the code
+;; that stamps the value.
+;;
+;; A WRITE REFERENCE, deliberately not a definition. The round-1 rule already
+;; mints Property nodes for literals bound to a variable; minting more for
+;; anonymous records would add same-named competitors to the very name-narrowing
+;; that makes these reads resolvable — measured at 26 competing definitions for
+;; one field on the reporting repo. A construction site is a USE of a field, not
+;; another declaration of it.
+;;
+;; Two positions only: nested under a key, and returned. Both are records with a
+;; name attached (the key, or the function). An inline call argument
+;; (\`doThing({ id: 1 })\`) stays excluded for the same reason round 1 excluded
+;; it from definitions — it is call-site data, not a named surface.
+;;
+;; The enclosing literal is the receiver, and it is anonymous, which routes
+;; these through the same narrowing and the same refusal-to-guess as every other
+;; untyped receiver.
+(pair
+  value: (object
+    (pair
+      key: (property_identifier) @reference.name
+        @reference.write.property-key) @_r2b.nested) @reference.receiver)
+
+(return_statement
+  (object
+    (pair
+      key: (property_identifier) @reference.name
+        @reference.write.property-key) @_r2b.returned) @reference.receiver)
+
 `;
 
 /** JSX-only suffix — appended when compiling against the JSX grammar for .jsx files. */
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-object-properties/destructured.js b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-object-properties/destructured.js
index 17e3c2f7c..90f19867b 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-object-properties/destructured.js
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-object-properties/destructured.js
@@ -17,3 +17,28 @@ export function appliesRenamed({ destructuredOnlyField: aliased }) {
 export function appliesShorthand({ destructuredOnlyField }) {
   return destructuredOnlyField;
 }
+
+// R2-1b: record CONSTRUCTION. Both of these SET `destructuredOnlyField` —
+// the nested-under-a-key form and the returned-literal form — and neither is
+// bound to a variable, so neither mints a definition.
+export function buildPlan(settings) {
+  return {
+    exitContract: {
+      destructuredOnlyField: settings.raw ?? 0,
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+export function buildFlat(settings) {
+  return {
+    destructuredOnlyField: settings.raw ?? 1,
+  };
+}
+
+// NEGATIVE CONTROL: an inline call-argument prop bag is call-site data, not a
+// record with a name attached, and must stay excluded exactly as it is for
+// definitions.
+function consume(bag) {
+  return bag;
+}
+export const consumed = consume({ notAConstructedField: 3 });
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/javascript-object-properties.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/javascript-object-properties.test.ts
index 629e2f44a..787133bca 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/javascript-object-properties.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/javascript-object-properties.test.ts
@@ -124,6 +124,36 @@ describe('JavaScript plain-object property access (A1/A5)', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  // R2-1b. The read side answered well while "who SETS this field?" missed the
+  // code that stamps the value, because a record built inline is bound to no
+  // variable and so mints no definition to point at.
+  describe('record construction writes (R2-1b)', () => {
+    const writersOf = (field: string): string[] =>
+      getRelationships(result, 'ACCESSES')
+        .filter((e) => e.target === field && (e.rel.reason ?? '').includes('write'))
+        .map((e) => e.source);
+
+    it('emits a WRITE for a literal nested under a key', () => {
+      expect(writersOf('destructuredOnlyField')).toContain('buildPlan');
+    });
+
+    it('emits a WRITE for a returned literal', () => {
+      expect(writersOf('destructuredOnlyField')).toContain('buildFlat');
+    });
+
+    // The point of modelling these as writes rather than definitions: more
+    // definitions would add same-named competitors to the narrowing that makes
+    // these fields resolvable in the first place.
+    it('mints NO new definition for a constructed record', () => {
+      expect(propertyNames().filter((n) => n === 'destructuredOnlyField')).toHaveLength(1);
+    });
+
+    it('leaves an inline call-argument prop bag alone', () => {
+      expect(propertyNames()).not.toContain('notAConstructedField');
+      expect(writersOf('notAConstructedField')).toEqual([]);
+    });
+  });
+
   // R2. Strict workspace uniqueness was measurably too blunt: in the reporting
   // repo `exitMinAtrMult` had 26 definitions, 16 of them in one-off scripts the
   // backend has no relationship with, so every backend read was refused because