diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/scope-resolution/passes/unique-name-properties.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/scope-resolution/passes/unique-name-properties.ts
index 45d2a9cd9..94ab2168c 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/scope-resolution/passes/unique-name-properties.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/scope-resolution/passes/unique-name-properties.ts
@@ -101,6 +101,19 @@ const OVERSATURATED = null;
 interface PropertyCandidate {
   readonly id: string;
   readonly filePath: string;
+  /**
+   * True when this definition is the RETURN SHAPE of a function (R3-4) rather
+   * than a declared surface — a named object literal, a class field, an
+   * interface or alias member.
+   *
+   * Return shapes are the weaker anchor and are ranked below declared ones, so
+   * adding them cannot change an answer that already resolved. That is what
+   * reconciles this with R2-1b, which deliberately modelled returned keys as
+   * WRITES to avoid adding same-named competitors to narrowing: they are
+   * definitions now, but they never outrank a real declaration, so the
+   * competitor problem it was avoiding does not come back.
+   */
+  readonly fromReturnShape: boolean;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -186,13 +199,18 @@ export function buildPropertyNameIndex(graph: KnowledgeGraph): PropertyNameIndex
     if (typeof name !== 'string' || name.length === 0) continue;
     const filePath = node.properties.filePath;
     if (typeof filePath !== 'string') continue;
+    const candidate: PropertyCandidate = {
+      id: node.id,
+      filePath,
+      fromReturnShape: node.properties.fromReturnShape === true,
+    };
     const existing = byName.get(name);
     if (existing === undefined) {
-      byName.set(name, [{ id: node.id, filePath }]);
+      byName.set(name, [candidate]);
       continue;
     }
     if (existing.some((c) => c.id === node.id)) continue;
-    existing.push({ id: node.id, filePath });
+    existing.push(candidate);
   }
   return byName;
 }
@@ -281,13 +299,24 @@ function buildDirectImportMap(
  * imported third would answer a question the reader's own file contradicts.
  */
 function narrowToSingleCandidate(
-  candidates: readonly PropertyCandidate[],
+  candidatesIn: readonly PropertyCandidate[],
   readingFile: string,
   importedFiles: ReadonlySet<string> | undefined,
 ): { readonly id: string; readonly tier: string } | null {
-  if (candidates.length === 1) {
-    return { id: candidates[0]!.id, tier: 'workspace-unique' };
+  // DECLARED ANCHORS FIRST. A return shape is a real definition but a weaker
+  // one: it says "some function builds an object with this key", where a named
+  // literal or a class/interface member says "this IS the field". Whenever both
+  // exist, the declared one is what a reader means — and ranking it first is
+  // what guarantees R3-4 cannot change an answer that already resolved before
+  // return shapes were indexed at all.
+  let candidates = candidatesIn;
+  const declared = candidates.filter((c) => !c.fromReturnShape);
+  const ranked = declared.length > 0 ? declared : candidates;
+
+  if (ranked.length === 1) {
+    return { id: ranked[0]!.id, tier: 'workspace-unique' };
   }
+  candidates = ranked;
 
   const sameFile = candidates.filter((c) => c.filePath === readingFile);
   if (sameFile.length > 0) {
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/tree-sitter-queries.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/tree-sitter-queries.ts
index f2655c4a8..7a6dee3df 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/tree-sitter-queries.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/tree-sitter-queries.ts
@@ -424,6 +424,43 @@ export const TYPESCRIPT_QUERIES = `
     (pair
       key: (property_identifier) @name) @definition.property))
 
+; Keys of an ANONYMOUS object literal in RETURN position (R3-4). The dominant
+; shape in idiomatic JS: 437 sites in one backend directory of the reporting
+; repo, including the ~25-field payload of its whole signal pipeline, none of
+; which could be named because the literal binds to nothing.
+;
+; The enclosing function is the owner -- the literal is that function's return
+; shape, a contract its callers consume -- so the key qualifies as
+; <function>.<key> and two functions returning the same key stay distinct.
+;
+; DEFINITIONS, unlike the record-construction writes of R2-1b, and the
+; difference is deliberate: there a definition already existed elsewhere and a
+; construction site was a USE of it, while here nothing else names the field at
+; all. To keep that from regressing R2-1b's case, narrowing ranks declared
+; anchors ABOVE return shapes, so a name that already resolves keeps resolving
+; to what it resolved to before.
+(return_statement
+  (object
+    (pair
+      key: (property_identifier) @name) @definition.property))
+
+; SHORTHAND keys of the same literal. "return { symbol, interval, score }" is
+; the commonest spelling of all -- the reporting repo's own alert payload is
+; mostly shorthand -- and (pair) does not match it: tree-sitter models it as
+; shorthand_property_identifier, where the key IS the value. Found by dumping
+; the golden fixture and noticing that a literal returning
+; { level, message, timestamp: Date.now() } had indexed only timestamp.
+(return_statement
+  (object
+    (shorthand_property_identifier) @name @definition.property))
+
+; Shorthand keys of a named object literal -- same gap, same reason as the
+; return-position rule above.
+(variable_declarator
+  name: (identifier)
+  value: (object
+    (shorthand_property_identifier) @name @definition.property))
+
 (variable_declarator
   name: (identifier)
   value: (call_expression
@@ -932,6 +969,43 @@ export const JAVASCRIPT_QUERIES = `
     (pair
       key: (property_identifier) @name) @definition.property))
 
+; Keys of an ANONYMOUS object literal in RETURN position (R3-4). The dominant
+; shape in idiomatic JS: 437 sites in one backend directory of the reporting
+; repo, including the ~25-field payload of its whole signal pipeline, none of
+; which could be named because the literal binds to nothing.
+;
+; The enclosing function is the owner -- the literal is that function's return
+; shape, a contract its callers consume -- so the key qualifies as
+; <function>.<key> and two functions returning the same key stay distinct.
+;
+; DEFINITIONS, unlike the record-construction writes of R2-1b, and the
+; difference is deliberate: there a definition already existed elsewhere and a
+; construction site was a USE of it, while here nothing else names the field at
+; all. To keep that from regressing R2-1b's case, narrowing ranks declared
+; anchors ABOVE return shapes, so a name that already resolves keeps resolving
+; to what it resolved to before.
+(return_statement
+  (object
+    (pair
+      key: (property_identifier) @name) @definition.property))
+
+; SHORTHAND keys of the same literal. "return { symbol, interval, score }" is
+; the commonest spelling of all -- the reporting repo's own alert payload is
+; mostly shorthand -- and (pair) does not match it: tree-sitter models it as
+; shorthand_property_identifier, where the key IS the value. Found by dumping
+; the golden fixture and noticing that a literal returning
+; { level, message, timestamp: Date.now() } had indexed only timestamp.
+(return_statement
+  (object
+    (shorthand_property_identifier) @name @definition.property))
+
+; Shorthand keys of a named object literal -- same gap, same reason as the
+; return-position rule above.
+(variable_declarator
+  name: (identifier)
+  value: (object
+    (shorthand_property_identifier) @name @definition.property))
+
 ; Same named shape, behind an IDENTITY-PRESERVING wrapper (R2-1a):
 ;
 ;   export const INERT_EXIT_CONTRACT = Object.freeze({ exitModel: 'bracket', ... });
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/utils/ast-helpers.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/utils/ast-helpers.ts
index f4ec2dd2f..65f06bd31 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/utils/ast-helpers.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/utils/ast-helpers.ts
@@ -1177,6 +1177,91 @@ const BLOCK_SCOPE_BOUNDARY_TYPES = new Set([
  *     ancestor also returns null (catches block-scoped declarations inside
  *     top-level `if`/`for`/`try`/etc., which cannot be imported).
  */
+/**
+ * Owner for the keys of an ANONYMOUS object literal in return position (R3-4).
+ *
+ * `return { symbol, score, wickRatio, … }` binds to nothing, so its keys had no
+ * anchor and could not be qualified — which on the reporting repo left the
+ * central payload of the signal pipeline, ~25 fields, entirely unqueryable.
+ * There are 437 such sites in one backend directory, so this is the dominant
+ * shape, not an edge case.
+ *
+ * The enclosing FUNCTION is the honest owner: the literal is that function's
+ * return shape, which is a contract its callers consume. Qualifying by it keeps
+ * two functions returning the same key name as two distinct nodes, exactly as
+ * `ownerName` does for variable-bound literals.
+ *
+ * Returns null when the literal is not DIRECTLY returned (a nested literal, or
+ * one inside a callback several frames down), because then the enclosing
+ * function is not what the object describes.
+ */
+/**
+ * True when this definition node is a key of a literal in RETURN position.
+ *
+ * Deliberately independent of whether an OWNER NAME could be derived. The two
+ * are different questions, and conflating them mislabels the anonymous case:
+ * `[function (row) { return { k: row.x }; }]` yields no name to qualify by, so
+ * the owner lookup returns null — but the key is still a return shape, and
+ * flagging it by owner-presence would leave it looking like a DECLARED anchor
+ * and let it outrank a real declaration during narrowing.
+ */
+export const isReturnShapeProperty = (node: SyntaxNode): boolean => {
+  let current: SyntaxNode | null = node;
+  let objectDepth = 0;
+  while (current && objectDepth === 0) {
+    if (current.type === 'object') objectDepth = 1;
+    else if (FUNCTION_NODE_TYPES.has(current.type)) return false;
+    else current = current.parent;
+  }
+  return current?.parent?.type === 'return_statement';
+};
+
+export const findReturnShapeOwnerInfo = (
+  node: SyntaxNode,
+  filePath: string,
+  // NO `ownerId`, deliberately, and the union's optional field is what says so.
+  // An owner id would emit `HAS_PROPERTY` from the FUNCTION, a `Function|Property`
+  // relation pair that the schema does not declare — and an undeclared pair does
+  // not degrade, it throws `UndeclaredRelationPairError` and kills the entire
+  // analyze. That already shipped once in this PR. The qualifier alone is what
+  // this needs: it makes the key nameable and keeps two functions' same-named
+  // keys distinct, without asserting a containment edge nothing consumes.
+): { readonly ownerId?: string; readonly ownerName: string } | null => {
+  // Walk to the literal this key belongs to; bail if it is nested inside
+  // another object, whose shape it describes instead.
+  let current: SyntaxNode | null = node;
+  let objectDepth = 0;
+  while (current && objectDepth === 0) {
+    if (current.type === 'object') objectDepth = 1;
+    else if (FUNCTION_NODE_TYPES.has(current.type)) return null;
+    else current = current.parent;
+  }
+  if (!current) return null;
+  const literal = current;
+  if (literal.parent?.type !== 'return_statement') return null;
+
+  // The nearest enclosing function-like, and its name. An anonymous function
+  // (a callback, an IIFE) gives nothing to qualify by, so those stay
+  // unanchored rather than colliding on a shared empty owner.
+  let fn: SyntaxNode | null = literal.parent.parent;
+  while (fn && !FUNCTION_NODE_TYPES.has(fn.type)) fn = fn.parent;
+  if (!fn) return null;
+
+  const nameNode = fn.childForFieldName?.('name');
+  if (nameNode?.type === 'identifier' || nameNode?.type === 'property_identifier') {
+    return { ownerName: nameNode.text };
+  }
+  // `const formatAlert = (…) => ({ … })` and `const f = function () {}`: the
+  // name is on the declarator, not the function.
+  const declarator = fn.parent;
+  if (declarator?.type === 'variable_declarator') {
+    const declName = declarator.childForFieldName?.('name');
+    if (declName?.type === 'identifier') return { ownerName: declName.text };
+  }
+  void filePath;
+  return null;
+};
+
 export const findObjectLiteralBindingInfo = (
   node: SyntaxNode,
   filePath: string,
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
index 029ffab83..2158cffd4 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ import {
   getDefinitionNodeFromCaptures,
   findEnclosingClassInfo,
   findObjectLiteralBindingInfo,
+  findReturnShapeOwnerInfo,
+  isReturnShapeProperty,
   findMemberAssignmentOwnerInfo,
   isCjsDefaultExportAssignment,
   type EnclosingClassInfo,
@@ -2361,8 +2363,19 @@ const processFileGroup = (
               // byte-identical or every object-literal method in every indexed
               // repo changes id.
               includeOwnerName: nodeLabel === 'Property',
-            }))
+            }) ??
+            // R3-4: an anonymous literal in return position is owned by the
+            // function whose shape it is. Last in the chain so a variable-bound
+            // literal keeps its existing owner and its existing id.
+            (nodeLabel === 'Property' ? findReturnShapeOwnerInfo(definitionNode, file.path) : null))
           : null;
+      // Provenance for narrowing (R3-4). A return shape is a real definition but
+      // the weaker one, and the unique-name pass ranks declared anchors above it
+      // so indexing these cannot change an answer that already resolved.
+      const returnShapeProperty =
+        nodeLabel === 'Property' && definitionNode !== undefined && definitionNode !== null
+          ? isReturnShapeProperty(definitionNode)
+          : false;
 
       // #1978: hoisted ABOVE qualifiedName/node-id (load-bearing order) so a
       // class-like node can key its id by its fully-qualified path. Derived from
@@ -2809,6 +2822,7 @@ const processFileGroup = (
           ...(description !== undefined ? { description } : {}),
           ...methodProps,
           ...(declaredType !== undefined ? { declaredType } : {}),
+          ...(returnShapeProperty ? { fromReturnShape: true } : {}),
         },
       });
 
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
index c798f97e5..0b8535df8 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
@@ -289,7 +289,18 @@ import type { ParseWorkerResult } from '../core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.j
 // clashes. It is NOT on this branch, so until that one merges the re-check
 // below is still manual.
 // RE-CHECK AGAINST origin/main IMMEDIATELY BEFORE MERGING.
-const SCHEMA_BUMP = 48;
+// 48 -> 49 for the return-shape and shorthand captures (R3-4): keys of an
+// anonymous literal in return position, and shorthand keys in both that and the
+// variable-bound form. Parse-time again.
+//
+// The v34 hazard, and this branch has already tripped it: a build stamped 48
+// was installed and used to analyze two repos BEFORE these captures existed, so
+// caches stamped 48 exist that carry none of them. Within one PR the version
+// only has to differ from main's, but an INTERMEDIATE build of the same series
+// is a different capture set wearing the same number — which is exactly what
+// the note above records for 33/34.
+// RE-CHECK AGAINST origin/main IMMEDIATELY BEFORE MERGING.
+const SCHEMA_BUMP = 49;
 const GITNEXUS_PKG_VERSION = (() => {
   try {
     // package.json sits at gitnexus/package.json — two levels up from
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-object-properties/return-shape.js b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-object-properties/return-shape.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..da8e5a2af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-object-properties/return-shape.js
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+// R3-4: an anonymous literal in return position — the dominant shape in
+// idiomatic JS (437 sites in one backend directory of the reporting repo),
+// including the ~25-field payload of its entire signal pipeline. It binds to
+// nothing, so its keys had no anchor and could not be named at all.
+export function formatAlert(row) {
+  const shorthandOnlyField = row.shorthand;
+  return {
+    returnShapeOnlyField: row.raw,
+    sharedWithDeclared: row.other,
+    // SHORTHAND — the commonest spelling, and the one `(pair)` cannot match.
+    // The reporting repo's own alert payload is mostly this form.
+    shorthandOnlyField,
+  };
+}
+
+// A SECOND function returning a same-named key. Two distinct shapes, so two
+// distinct nodes — qualifying by the owning function is what keeps them apart.
+export function formatSummary(row) {
+  return {
+    summaryOnlyField: row.summary,
+  };
+}
+
+// The reader. Untyped receiver, so this is the name-inference path.
+export function readsReturnShape(alert) {
+  return alert.returnShapeOnlyField;
+}
+
+// The R2-1b GUARANTEE, as a fixture: a DECLARED anchor for the same name.
+// `sharedWithDeclared` is both a named-object key and a return-shape key, and a
+// read of it must keep resolving to the DECLARED one — otherwise indexing
+// return shapes would silently move existing answers.
+export const declaredHome = {
+  sharedWithDeclared: 1,
+};
+
+export function readsShared(bag) {
+  return bag.sharedWithDeclared;
+}
+
+// Anonymous functions give nothing to qualify by, so their return shapes stay
+// unanchored rather than colliding on a shared empty owner.
+export const anonHolder = [
+  function (row) {
+    return { anonReturnKey: row.x };
+  },
+];
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-alias-fields/contracts.ts b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-alias-fields/contracts.ts
index a7689757d..56657ac0e 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-alias-fields/contracts.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/typescript-alias-fields/contracts.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ export type NestedConfig = {
 };
 
 // Inline RETURN type — the third position the unanchored rule reached.
-export function buildInline(): { inlineReturnOnlyKey: number } {
-  return { inlineReturnOnlyKey: 1 };
+// The TYPE annotation's member and the returned VALUE's key are named
+// differently ON PURPOSE. They are separate rules with opposite expectations —
+// an inline return TYPE must mint nothing (RV-4), while a returned literal's
+// keys are a function's return shape and must mint (R3-4) — and sharing a name
+// left the RV-4 assertion unable to tell which rule produced the node.
+export function buildInline(): { inlineReturnTypeOnlyKey: number } {
+  return { inlineReturnValueOnlyKey: 1 } as never;
 }
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/pipeline-golden/mini-repo/expected-graph.json b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/pipeline-golden/mini-repo/expected-graph.json
index 4a5d5b408..14fa41596 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/pipeline-golden/mini-repo/expected-graph.json
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/pipeline-golden/mini-repo/expected-graph.json
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
   "capture": "initial capture (U8, post-U1–U7)",
   "fixture": "mini-repo",
   "totalFileCount": 7,
-  "symbols": 41,
-  "relationships": 85,
+  "symbols": 51,
+  "relationships": 95,
   "processes": 4,
   "byType": {
     "Class": 1,
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@
     "Interface": 3,
     "Method": 1,
     "Process": 4,
-    "Property": 8
+    "Property": 18
   },
   "byRelType": {
     "ACCESSES": 3,
     "CALLS": 9,
     "CONTAINS": 7,
-    "DEFINES": 16,
+    "DEFINES": 26,
     "HAS_METHOD": 1,
     "HAS_PROPERTY": 8,
     "IMPORTS": 12,
@@ -28,5 +28,5 @@
     "STEP_IN_PROCESS": 12,
     "USES": 5
   },
-  "edgeDigest": "c55bd8307a5fccbfd23d5aa93f241e26ef0f45c1a9e57691f2bf4f6602e8e4ab"
+  "edgeDigest": "5dddd1f466deeda1197eb61b480a4f3a5da67dfc0d00ace22377158366e87d00"
 }
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/javascript-object-properties.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/javascript-object-properties.test.ts
index 43670f0ed..e7a72877e 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/javascript-object-properties.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/javascript-object-properties.test.ts
@@ -145,11 +145,21 @@ describe('JavaScript plain-object property access (A1/A5)', () => {
       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);
+    // This asserted `toHaveLength(1)` — no new definition — until R3-4 began
+    // anchoring returned literals, which mints exactly one here (`buildFlat`'s
+    // return shape). The assertion was the right instinct expressed as the
+    // wrong invariant: what R2-1b actually protects is that adding definitions
+    // must not move an answer that already resolved, and node count was a proxy
+    // for that. The property itself is now asserted directly, and it holds
+    // because narrowing ranks declared anchors above return shapes.
+    it('keeps the DECLARED definition winning despite a return-shape sibling', () => {
+      const nodes = propertyNames().filter((n) => n === 'destructuredOnlyField');
+      expect(nodes.length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+      // Every reader still resolves, and to the declared home — a read that had
+      // dropped to ambiguous would show up as a missing edge here.
+      for (const reader of ['appliesDestructured', 'appliesShorthand', 'appliesRenamed']) {
+        expect(readersOf('destructuredOnlyField')).toContain(reader);
+      }
     });
 
     it('leaves an inline call-argument prop bag alone', () => {
@@ -158,6 +168,54 @@ describe('JavaScript plain-object property access (A1/A5)', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  // R3-4. The dominant shape in idiomatic JS and the one with no anchor at all:
+  // 437 `return {` sites in a single backend directory of the reporting repo,
+  // including the ~25-field payload of its whole signal pipeline. The literal
+  // binds to nothing, so its keys could not even be named.
+  describe('anonymous returned object literals (R3-4)', () => {
+    it('indexes keys of a literal returned from a named function', () => {
+      expect(propertyNames()).toContain('returnShapeOnlyField');
+    });
+
+    it('resolves a read of a return-shape key', () => {
+      expect(readersOf('returnShapeOnlyField')).toContain('readsReturnShape');
+    });
+
+    // `{ symbol, interval, score }` is the commonest spelling of all and
+    // `(pair)` does not match it — tree-sitter models it as
+    // `shorthand_property_identifier`, where the key IS the value. Caught by
+    // dumping the golden fixture and seeing that a literal returning
+    // `{ level, message, timestamp: Date.now() }` had indexed only `timestamp`.
+    it('indexes SHORTHAND keys, not just explicit pairs', () => {
+      expect(propertyNames()).toContain('shorthandOnlyField');
+    });
+
+    // Qualified by the owning function, so two functions returning the same key
+    // are two shapes rather than one merged symbol — the same collision
+    // `ownerName` prevents for variable-bound literals.
+    it('qualifies by the owning function', () => {
+      const ids = Array.from(
+        (result as unknown as { graph: { iterNodes(): Iterable<PropNode> } }).graph.iterNodes(),
+      )
+        .filter((n) => n.label === 'Property')
+        .map((n) => String(n.id));
+      expect(ids.some((id) => id.includes('formatAlert.returnShapeOnlyField'))).toBe(true);
+      expect(ids.some((id) => id.includes('formatSummary.summaryOnlyField'))).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    // THE GUARANTEE that reconciles this with R2-1b. `sharedWithDeclared` is
+    // both a named-object key and a return-shape key; a read must still resolve
+    // to the DECLARED one, or indexing return shapes would silently move
+    // answers that already worked.
+    it('never outranks a declared anchor', () => {
+      expect(readersOf('sharedWithDeclared')).toContain('readsShared');
+      const declaredWins = getRelationships(result, 'ACCESSES').filter(
+        (e) => e.target === 'sharedWithDeclared' && e.source === 'readsShared',
+      );
+      expect(declaredWins.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    });
+  });
+
   // 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
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/typescript-alias-fields.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/typescript-alias-fields.test.ts
index 52bcbc9df..1cab69f7d 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/typescript-alias-fields.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/typescript-alias-fields.test.ts
@@ -117,7 +117,10 @@ describe('TypeScript type-alias and interface members (A4)', () => {
     });
 
     it('does not mint a member for an inline RETURN type', () => {
-      expect(propertyIds().some((id) => id.includes('inlineReturnOnlyKey'))).toBe(false);
+      // The TYPE's member, not the returned value's key — those are different
+      // rules with opposite expectations, and the fixture names them apart so
+      // this assertion cannot be satisfied by the wrong one.
+      expect(propertyIds().some((id) => id.includes('inlineReturnTypeOnlyKey'))).toBe(false);
     });
 
     // The other half: anchoring must not cost real members.
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
index c8c22b5e4..192360e9d 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@ describe('PARSE_CACHE_VERSION', () => {
   // a row. Same lesson as the note above — the pin cannot detect the tie, since
   // both sides asserted `toBe(45)` and that passes while main is already 45.
   // Only the merge-time diff against origin/main surfaces it.
-  it('pins SCHEMA_BUMP to 48 so concurrent bumps cannot silently collide (#2766)', () => {
-    expect(Number(PARSE_CACHE_VERSION.split('+', 1)[0])).toBe(48);
+  it('pins SCHEMA_BUMP to 49 so concurrent bumps cannot silently collide (#2766)', () => {
+    expect(Number(PARSE_CACHE_VERSION.split('+', 1)[0])).toBe(49);
   });
 
   it('embeds the gitnexus package version (so upgrades invalidate the cache)', () => {