diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/javascript/query.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/javascript/query.ts
index ec2d6a3f2..d7fa30fc3 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/javascript/query.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/javascript/query.ts
@@ -589,6 +589,17 @@ export const JAVASCRIPT_SCOPE_QUERY = `
 
 (object
   (shorthand_property_identifier) @reference.name @reference.property-key @reference.value-ref)
+
+;; Bare-identifier reads (A2). VALUE POSITIONS ONLY — a blanket
+;; \`(identifier)\` rule would mint a site for every token in the file.
+(arguments
+  (identifier) @reference.name @reference.read.identifier)
+
+(assignment_pattern
+  right: (identifier) @reference.name @reference.read.identifier)
+
+(return_statement
+  (identifier) @reference.name @reference.read.identifier)
 `;
 
 /** JSX-only suffix — appended when compiling against the JSX grammar for .jsx files. */
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
index 63654ffb8..90cc24b4f 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
@@ -248,7 +248,25 @@ import type { ParseWorkerResult } from '../core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.j
 // them. Only comparing against origin/main at MERGE time surfaces it.
 // PR #2840 (Objective-C, draft) still claims 44 as well — it must move too.
 // RE-CHECK AGAINST origin/main IMMEDIATELY BEFORE MERGING.
-const SCHEMA_BUMP = 45;
+// 45 -> 46 for the JavaScript bare-identifier read captures (A2), which emit
+// `@reference.read.identifier` in value positions (call arguments,
+// default-parameter values, return statements) so a module-scope `const` read
+// only by bare name finally mints a reference site, plus the object-literal
+// `@definition.property` rule and the TypeScript shape-member captures. All
+// PARSE-TIME emission, so a warm cache serves entries carrying none of those
+// matches and the new nodes and edges never appear — observed directly while
+// developing: a full `analyze --force` produced a byte-identical graph and read
+// as a failed hypothesis until the cache was cleared by hand.
+//
+// This branch originally took 45 and it COLLIDED: #2837 above merged first and
+// claimed it. The TENTH entry in this ledger and the FOURTH exact clash, caught
+// exactly as the note above says it must be — by comparing against origin/main
+// at merge time, not at review time. The pin test cannot catch it: both sides
+// asserted `toBe(45)`, which passes while main is already 45, so two capture
+// schemas would have shared one PARSE_CACHE_VERSION and the durable ParsedFile
+// store would have replayed pre-fix ParsedFiles verbatim for one of them.
+// RE-CHECK AGAINST origin/main IMMEDIATELY BEFORE MERGING.
+const SCHEMA_BUMP = 46;
 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-const-references/config.js b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-const-references/config.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2e5041c5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-const-references/config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+// A2: a module-scope const referenced only as a bare identifier.
+const DEFAULT_FETCH_LIMIT = 500;
+
+// Inline-exported form — the common spelling.
+export const INLINE_LIMIT = 250;
+
+export function fetchAll(limit = DEFAULT_FETCH_LIMIT) {
+  return Math.max(DEFAULT_FETCH_LIMIT, limit);
+}
+
+export function pageSize() {
+  return DEFAULT_FETCH_LIMIT;
+}
+
+export { DEFAULT_FETCH_LIMIT };
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-const-references/consumer.js b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-const-references/consumer.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ddc7cd685
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/lang-resolution/javascript-const-references/consumer.js
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { DEFAULT_FETCH_LIMIT, INLINE_LIMIT, pageSize } from './config.js';
+
+// A2 cross-file: a named-import reference to a module-scope const.
+export function consumerLimit() {
+  return DEFAULT_FETCH_LIMIT;
+}
+
+// Control: same shape, but the const was exported inline.
+export function consumerInline() {
+  return INLINE_LIMIT;
+}
+
+// Control: a cross-file CALL through the same import statement resolves today.
+export function consumerCall() {
+  return pageSize();
+}
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/javascript-const-references.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/javascript-const-references.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..574c8aaa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/integration/resolvers/javascript-const-references.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/**
+ * A2 — references to a module-scope `const` must produce edges.
+ *
+ * A constant read only as a BARE IDENTIFIER (`Math.max(LIMIT, n)`, a default
+ * parameter value, `return LIMIT`) produced no reference site at all, so
+ * "who uses this constant?" — the question behind every dead-code trim and
+ * constants refactor — answered with a confident zero rather than "unknown".
+ *
+ * The registries already accept it (`FIELD_KINDS` includes `Const`) and the
+ * scope query already declares it (`@declaration.const`), so this is about the
+ * reference SITE existing: JS/TS captured only `@reference.read.member`, which
+ * requires a receiver a bare identifier does not have.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll } from 'vitest';
+import path from 'path';
+import { FIXTURES, getRelationships, runPipelineFromRepo, type PipelineResult } from './helpers.js';
+
+describe('JavaScript module-scope const references (A2)', () => {
+  let result: PipelineResult;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    result = await runPipelineFromRepo(
+      path.join(FIXTURES, 'javascript-const-references'),
+      () => {},
+    );
+  }, 60000);
+
+  const readersOfConst = (): Set<string> =>
+    new Set(
+      getRelationships(result, 'ACCESSES')
+        .filter((e) => e.target === 'DEFAULT_FETCH_LIMIT')
+        .map((e) => e.source),
+    );
+
+  it('emits ACCESSES from same-file readers of the const', () => {
+    const readers = readersOfConst();
+    // fetchAll reads it twice (default param + Math.max); pageSize returns it.
+    expect(readers).toContain('fetchAll');
+    expect(readers).toContain('pageSize');
+  });
+
+  // Cross-file is NOT yet covered. The reference site exists (the capture
+  // fires on `return DEFAULT_FETCH_LIMIT` in consumer.js, verified against the
+  // raw query) and a CALL through the very same import statement resolves
+  // (`consumerCall → pageSize`, reason `import-resolved`), so the gap is
+  // specific to linking a value-kind def across the import edge. Prime
+  // suspect: exported-def resolution is callable-only — `findExportedDefByName`
+  // returns a def only when `def.type` is `Function`/`Method`
+  // (scope/walkers.ts:1323) and its workspace fallback index is
+  // `exportedCallableByName`. Both export spellings (`export const X` and
+  // `export { X }`) fail identically, so it is not the export syntax.
+  it.todo('emits an edge for the cross-file named-import reader');
+
+  it('targets the Const node itself, not a same-named local', () => {
+    const toConst = getRelationships(result, 'ACCESSES').filter(
+      (e) => e.target === 'DEFAULT_FETCH_LIMIT',
+    );
+    expect(toConst.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    for (const e of toConst) {
+      expect(e.targetLabel).toBe('Const');
+      expect(e.targetFilePath).toContain('config.js');
+    }
+  });
+});