diff --git a/ARCHITECTURE.md b/ARCHITECTURE.md
index 37bfa0875..6fe547b70 100644
--- a/ARCHITECTURE.md
+++ b/ARCHITECTURE.md
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ converging on the routes phase's `(method, url)` registry:
 | Filesystem convention | path → URL, no parsing | Next.js `app/`, Expo, PHP |
 | Single-file framework route | `isRouteFile` + worker extraction | Laravel `routes/*.php` |
 | Cross-file framework route | `discoverRootRouteFiles` + `extractRoutes` | Django `urlpatterns` |
-| AST-level route in a normal file | `extractDecoratorRoutes` | Spring, FastAPI, NestJS (`@Controller` + `@Get`/`@Post`/…), **JS/TS dispatch guards and static data route tables** |
+| AST-level route in a normal file | `extractDecoratorRoutes` | Spring, FastAPI, NestJS (`@Controller` + `@Get`/`@Post`/…; URLs are controller-relative — `setGlobalPrefix` and URI versioning live in the bootstrap file and are not applied), **JS/TS dispatch guards and static data route tables** |
 
 The last row is the one whose name undersells it. A route is DECLARED by a
 decorator, but it can also be **inferred** from a raw `node:http` server's own
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/data-route-table.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/data-route-table.ts
index 053d207fe..8fb369fea 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/data-route-table.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/data-route-table.ts
@@ -116,7 +116,14 @@ function decodeJavaScriptStringLiteral(raw: string): string | null {
   return decoded;
 }
 
-function plainString(node: SyntaxNode): string | null {
+/**
+ * A `string`/`template_string` node's decoded value, or `null` when it is not a
+ * readable literal (an interpolated template, an unterminated escape). Shared
+ * with the NestJS extractor so both agree on what a readable literal is —
+ * notably that escapes must be DECODED, not dropped, because tree-sitter splits
+ * a literal around every `escape_sequence`.
+ */
+export function plainString(node: SyntaxNode): string | null {
   if (node.type === 'string') return decodeJavaScriptStringLiteral(node.text);
   if (
     node.type === 'template_string' &&
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/nest.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/nest.ts
index a8ec4c60a..e27b7c4c2 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/nest.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/nest.ts
@@ -20,22 +20,55 @@
  * class. As there, the prefix travels on `ExtractedDecoratorRoute.prefix` and
  * the routes phase performs the join via `normalizeExtractedRoutePath`, so
  * NestJS routes are keyed identically to every other framework's.
+ *
+ * Known limitation: the URLs produced here are CONTROLLER-RELATIVE. A global
+ * prefix (`app.setGlobalPrefix('api')`) and URI versioning are applied by the
+ * bootstrap file, not by any decorator this file can see, so neither is
+ * reflected — a route served at `/api/v1/venues/search` is stored as
+ * `/venues/search`. The module's "drop rather than guess" floor is unavailable
+ * for it: the evidence lives in a different file, so honouring it would mean
+ * dropping every Nest route in every repo. `spring.ts` has the same hole for
+ * `server.servlet.context-path`; `ExtractedDecoratorRoute.prefix` is the
+ * channel a cross-file follow-up would use, the way FastAPI resolves its mount.
  */
 
 import type Parser from 'tree-sitter';
 import type { ExtractedDecoratorRoute } from '../workers/parse-worker.js';
+import { plainString } from './data-route-table.js';
 
-/** NestJS method decorators → HTTP verb. */
-const NEST_METHOD_DECORATORS: Record<string, string> = {
-  Get: 'GET',
-  Post: 'POST',
-  Put: 'PUT',
-  Patch: 'PATCH',
-  Delete: 'DELETE',
-  Head: 'HEAD',
-  Options: 'OPTIONS',
-  All: '*',
-};
+/**
+ * NestJS method decorators → HTTP verb. A Map rather than an object literal
+ * because the lookup key is an arbitrary decorator name read out of source: a
+ * plain object answers `@toString()` with `Object.prototype.toString`, which is
+ * truthy and would be emitted verbatim as the route's httpMethod.
+ */
+const NEST_METHOD_DECORATORS: ReadonlyMap<string, string> = new Map([
+  ['Get', 'GET'],
+  ['Post', 'POST'],
+  ['Put', 'PUT'],
+  ['Patch', 'PATCH'],
+  ['Delete', 'DELETE'],
+  ['Head', 'HEAD'],
+  ['Options', 'OPTIONS'],
+  ['All', '*'],
+  // `@Sse` mounts a real GET endpoint that streams; it is as much a route as
+  // `@Get`. `@Search` is deliberately absent — `normalizeRouteMethod` rejects
+  // SEARCH as non-standard and would key the route by URL alone, colliding
+  // with every other verb on that path.
+  ['Sse', 'GET'],
+]);
+
+/**
+ * Class node types that can carry a `@Controller`. `export abstract class C`
+ * parses as `abstract_class_declaration`, a DIFFERENT node type — and a
+ * decorated abstract base sharing CRUD routes with its subclasses is ordinary
+ * Nest, so matching `class_declaration` alone silently drops the whole
+ * controller rather than one route.
+ */
+const CLASS_DECLARATION_TYPES: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
+  'class_declaration',
+  'abstract_class_declaration',
+]);
 
 /**
  * Cheap parse-free gate. Every JS/TS file in every repo reaches this hook, so
@@ -76,24 +109,54 @@ function decoratorName(decorator: Parser.SyntaxNode): string | null {
  * (`@Controller(ROUTES.VENUES)`) whose value we cannot read must drop the route
  * rather than silently mount it at the wrong URL. `route_map` presents its
  * output as fact, and a wrong path is worse than a missing one.
+ *
+ * Reading the literal is delegated to `plainString`, the same judge the
+ * data-route-table extractor uses, so both agree on what is readable. Filtering
+ * `string_fragment` children and joining them looks equivalent and is not:
+ * tree-sitter SPLITS a literal around each `escape_sequence`, and the join then
+ * DELETES the escape rather than decoding it. `@Get(':id(\\d+)')` — the ordinary
+ * spelling of a Nest regex param, whose value is `:id(\d+)` — came out as
+ * `:id(d+)`, and `@Get('/v\u0069ews')` came out as `/vews`. Both are paths the
+ * app never serves, i.e. the wrong-URL outcome the paragraph above forbids.
  */
-function decoratorLiteralArg(decorator: Parser.SyntaxNode): string | null | undefined {
+/**
+ * A property key's name, for the two spellings that carry one: `{ path: … }`
+ * (a `property_identifier`) and `{ 'path': … }` (a `string`). Reading only the
+ * first would drop the ENTIRE controller over a pair of quotes — the same
+ * whole-class cost the object form is handled to avoid. A computed key
+ * (`{ [KEY]: … }`) has no readable name and keeps the drop.
+ */
+function objectKeyName(pair: Parser.SyntaxNode): string | null {
+  const key = pair.childForFieldName('key');
+  if (!key) return null;
+  return key.type === 'property_identifier' ? key.text : plainString(key);
+}
+
+function decoratorLiteralArg(decorator: Parser.SyntaxNode): string | null {
   const call = decoratorCall(decorator);
   if (!call) return ''; // bare `@Get` with no call — no path of its own
   const args = call.childForFieldName('arguments');
   const first = args?.namedChild(0);
   if (!first) return ''; // `@Get()` — no path of its own
 
-  if (first.type === 'string' || first.type === 'template_string') {
-    if (first.namedChildren.some((c) => c.type === 'template_substitution')) return null;
-    const fragments = first.namedChildren.filter((c) => c.type === 'string_fragment');
-    // An empty literal (`@Controller('')`) has no fragments and is a real ''.
-    return fragments.map((f) => f.text).join('');
+  // `@Controller({ path: 'cats', version: '1' })` is the documented form for
+  // URI/header versioning, and its path is a plain literal sitting right there.
+  // Worth reading rather than dropping, because the asymmetry is severe: an
+  // unreadable METHOD path costs one route, an unreadable PREFIX costs every
+  // route on the class.
+  if (first.type === 'object') {
+    const pathPair = first.namedChildren.find(
+      (child) => child.type === 'pair' && objectKeyName(child) === 'path',
+    );
+    const value = pathPair?.childForFieldName('value') ?? null;
+    // No `path` key, or a computed one, leaves the prefix unknowable.
+    return value === null ? null : plainString(value);
   }
 
   // An array form (`@Get(['a', 'b'])`), an identifier, a member expression, a
-  // call — all unreadable here. Skip rather than guess.
-  return null;
+  // call — none of them is a readable literal, and `plainString` answers `null`
+  // for every one of them. Skip rather than guess.
+  return plainString(first);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -185,7 +248,7 @@ export function extractNestRoutes(
   const out: ExtractedDecoratorRoute[] = [];
 
   const visit = (node: Parser.SyntaxNode): void => {
-    if (node.type === 'class_declaration') {
+    if (CLASS_DECLARATION_TYPES.has(node.type)) {
       const prefix = controllerPrefix(node);
       // `undefined` — not a controller at all. `null` — a controller whose
       // prefix could not be read, so its routes' URLs are unknowable.
@@ -211,17 +274,50 @@ function collectClassRoutes(
   const body = classNode.childForFieldName('body');
   if (!body) return;
 
-  for (const member of body.namedChildren) {
-    if (member.type !== 'method_definition') continue;
+  // ONE forward pass over the body, accumulating the decorator run and flushing
+  // it at each method. Calling `precedingDecorators` per method instead is
+  // quadratic in methods-per-controller for a reason that is invisible in the
+  // source: `namedChildren` is an UNCACHED getter in node-tree-sitter, so every
+  // call re-marshals the entire class body into fresh JS objects before the
+  // `findIndex`. Measured here, 800 methods cost 362ms (450us/method, up from
+  // 42us/method at 50); a single pass is flat. `spring.ts` never had this
+  // because a Java annotation is a child of the declaration it annotates.
+  const pending: Parser.SyntaxNode[] = [];
 
-    for (const decorator of precedingDecorators(member)) {
+  for (const member of body.namedChildren) {
+    if (member.type === 'decorator') {
+      pending.push(member);
+      continue;
+    }
+    // Same reason as in `precedingDecorators`: a JSDoc block between a
+    // decorator stack and its method must not hide the route (a real
+    // controller shape, pinned by the suite). Known limitation of that skip: a
+    // decorator ORPHANED by a commented-out handler is then absorbed onto the
+    // NEXT method, minting a phantom route with the wrong handler. There is no
+    // AST fix — an orphan followed by a comment is indistinguishable from a
+    // stack whose method happens to be documented — and losing every
+    // documented route is the worse trade, so it is made deliberately.
+    if (member.type === 'comment') continue;
+    if (member.type !== 'method_definition') {
+      pending.length = 0;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    // tree-sitter-javascript makes a method decorator a CHILD of the
+    // `method_definition`, not a preceding sibling as in tree-sitter-typescript
+    // — and this extractor is registered on the JavaScript provider too, which
+    // already advertises `framework: 'nestjs'`. Reading only siblings meant
+    // every `.js` Nest controller emitted nothing. On TypeScript the first
+    // named child is the method name, so `leadingDecorators` contributes
+    // nothing there and no route is collected twice.
+    for (const decorator of [...pending, ...leadingDecorators(member)]) {
       const name = decoratorName(decorator);
       if (name === null) continue;
-      const httpMethod = NEST_METHOD_DECORATORS[name];
-      if (!httpMethod) continue;
+      const httpMethod = NEST_METHOD_DECORATORS.get(name);
+      if (httpMethod === undefined) continue;
 
       const routePath = decoratorLiteralArg(decorator);
-      if (routePath === null || routePath === undefined) continue; // unreadable → skip
+      if (routePath === null) continue; // unreadable → skip
 
       const handlerName = member.childForFieldName('name')?.text;
 
@@ -241,5 +337,6 @@ function collectClassRoutes(
         ...(handlerName === undefined ? {} : { handlerName }),
       });
     }
+    pending.length = 0;
   }
 }
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/health/health.controller.ts b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/health/health.controller.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..462ba7717
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/health/health.controller.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import { Controller, Get } from '@nestjs/common';
+
+/**
+ * A controller with no prefix of its own. `@Controller()` is legal NestJS and
+ * means "mount at the root", so the method path must reach the graph bare —
+ * this is the fixture half of the extractor's `prefix: '' -> null` mapping.
+ */
+@Controller()
+export class HealthController {
+  @Get('health')
+  health(): string {
+    return 'ok';
+  }
+}
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/legacy/legacy.controller.ts b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/legacy/legacy.controller.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d91a8ee82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/legacy/legacy.controller.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { Controller, Get } from '@nestjs/common';
+
+const ROUTE_PREFIXES = { legacy: 'legacy' };
+
+/**
+ * The prefix is not a literal, so the URLs of this controller's methods are
+ * unknowable here. `route_map` presents its output as fact: a missing route is
+ * recoverable, a route mounted at the wrong URL is not.
+ */
+@Controller(ROUTE_PREFIXES.legacy)
+export class LegacyController {
+  @Get('reports')
+  legacyReports(): string {
+    return 'legacy';
+  }
+}
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/venues/venues.controller.ts b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/venues/venues.controller.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4a519f31c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/venues/venues.controller.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import { Body, Controller, Delete, Get, Param, Post, Query } from '@nestjs/common';
+import { VenuesService } from './venues.service';
+import type { Venue } from './venues.service';
+
+/**
+ * The shape #3009 is about: the URL is split across two decorators. The class
+ * decorator carries the prefix and the method decorator carries the verb plus
+ * the remainder, so neither half is a route on its own.
+ */
+@Controller('venues')
+export class VenuesController {
+  constructor(private readonly venues: VenuesService) {}
+
+  // Pathless index route: its URL is the controller prefix and nothing else.
+  @Get()
+  findAll(): Venue[] {
+    return this.venues.listVenues();
+  }
+
+  @Get('search')
+  search(@Query('q') term: string): Venue[] {
+    return this.venues.searchVenues(term);
+  }
+
+  // Same URL as findAll(), different verb — two Route nodes, not one.
+  @Post()
+  create(@Body() input: Venue): Venue {
+    return this.venues.insertVenue(input);
+  }
+
+  @Delete(':id')
+  remove(@Param('id') id: string): void {
+    this.venues.deleteVenue(id);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/venues/venues.service.ts b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/venues/venues.service.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5d6af8c20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/nest-route-app/src/venues/venues.service.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
+
+export interface Venue {
+  id: string;
+  name: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Not a controller. It exists so each handler body calls a real symbol, and so
+ * the `@Controller` file gate is shown skipping a decorated class that declares
+ * no routes.
+ */
+@Injectable()
+export class VenuesService {
+  private readonly rows: Venue[] = [];
+
+  listVenues(): Venue[] {
+    return this.rows;
+  }
+
+  searchVenues(term: string): Venue[] {
+    return this.rows.filter((row) => row.name.includes(term));
+  }
+
+  insertVenue(input: Venue): Venue {
+    this.rows.push(input);
+    return input;
+  }
+
+  deleteVenue(id: string): void {
+    this.rows.splice(
+      this.rows.findIndex((row) => row.id === id),
+      1,
+    );
+  }
+}
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/integration/nest-route-pipeline.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/integration/nest-route-pipeline.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7f9ee65da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/integration/nest-route-pipeline.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
+/**
+ * End-to-end coverage of NestJS `@Controller` + `@Get`/`@Post`/`@Delete` route
+ * ingestion (#3009).
+ *
+ * The unit suite (`test/unit/nest-decorator-routes.test.ts`) pins what the
+ * extractor RETURNS. Nothing there proves the return value becomes anything:
+ * the reported symptom was not a wrong `ExtractedDecoratorRoute`, it was
+ * `api_impact` — whose documented job is to be run BEFORE modifying a route
+ * handler — reporting every live endpoint as non-existent, because the graph
+ * held no `Route` nodes at all. That is the tier this file covers: the routes
+ * phase performing the prefix/path join, `claim()` in call-processor resolving
+ * `handlerName` to a real symbol UID, and `prefix: null` surviving both.
+ *
+ * The fixture lives at `test/fixtures/nest-route-app/`, mirroring
+ * `spring-route-app/` — Spring solves the identical two-decorator shape and
+ * `nest.ts` is modelled on it.
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll } from 'vitest';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import type { GraphNode, GraphRelationship } from 'gitnexus-shared';
+import { runPipelineFromRepo } from '../../src/core/ingestion/pipeline.js';
+import type { PipelineResult } from '../../src/types/pipeline.js';
+
+const FIXTURE = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'fixtures', 'nest-route-app');
+
+// Compared against POSIX-normalized graph paths (see `routes()`), so these stay
+// forward-slashed rather than going through `path.join` — the Windows shard
+// would otherwise compare backslashes against the graph's forward slashes.
+const CONTROLLER_FILE = 'src/venues/venues.controller.ts';
+const HEALTH_FILE = 'src/health/health.controller.ts';
+
+interface RouteView {
+  /** `${method} ${url}` — the `routeNodeKey` identity, as a sortable string. */
+  readonly identity: string;
+  /** The handler the route resolved to, or the literal `'undefined'`. */
+  readonly handler: string;
+  readonly handlerLabel: string;
+  readonly handlerFile: string;
+}
+
+describe('NestJS decorator route ingestion pipeline', () => {
+  let result: PipelineResult;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    result = await runPipelineFromRepo(FIXTURE, () => {}, {});
+  }, 120_000);
+
+  const nodes = (): readonly GraphNode[] => {
+    const out: GraphNode[] = [];
+    result.graph.forEachNode((node) => void out.push(node));
+    return out;
+  };
+
+  const relationships = (): readonly GraphRelationship[] => {
+    const out: GraphRelationship[] = [];
+    result.graph.forEachRelationship((rel) => void out.push(rel));
+    return out;
+  };
+
+  const routeNodes = (): readonly GraphNode[] => nodes().filter((node) => node.label === 'Route');
+
+  /**
+   * Unresolved fields are stringified rather than branched on, so a route that
+   * lost its handler reads as the literal `'undefined'` in the diff instead of
+   * quietly skipping an assertion.
+   */
+  const routes = (): readonly RouteView[] =>
+    routeNodes()
+      .map((node) => {
+        const handler = result.graph.getNode(String(node.properties.handlerSymbolId));
+        return {
+          identity: `${String(node.properties.method)} ${String(node.properties.name)}`,
+          handler: String(handler?.properties.name),
+          handlerLabel: String(handler?.label),
+          handlerFile: String(handler?.properties.filePath).replaceAll('\\', '/'),
+        };
+      })
+      .sort((a, b) => a.identity.localeCompare(b.identity));
+
+  const identities = (): readonly string[] => routes().map((route) => route.identity);
+
+  it('emits Route nodes at all — the reported symptom was zero', () => {
+    // Its own case because every expectation below is satisfiable by an empty
+    // graph in the ways that matter least: `not.toContain` passes vacuously on
+    // an empty array, and a full-table `toEqual` against `[]` reports a missing
+    // element rather than "the extractor never ran".
+    expect(routeNodes().length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+
+  it('joins the @Controller prefix with each method path into the Route node URL', () => {
+    // `/venues/search`, not `search` and not `/search`: the join is what the
+    // extractor cannot do alone — it ships `prefix` and the routes phase folds
+    // it in via `normalizeExtractedRoutePath`.
+    expect(identities()).toEqual([
+      'DELETE /venues/:id',
+      'GET /health',
+      'GET /venues',
+      'GET /venues/search',
+      'POST /venues',
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('mounts a pathless @Get() at the controller prefix WITH its handler attached', () => {
+    // The reason `nest.ts` emits '/' instead of '' for a pathless decorator:
+    // `claim()` short-circuits on a falsy `routePath`, so '' would still create
+    // this Route node and silently drop `handlerSymbolId`. The unit test can
+    // only see `routePath === '/'` at the extractor boundary; the guard being
+    // load-bearing is observable here and nowhere else.
+    expect(routes().find((route) => route.identity === 'GET /venues')).toEqual({
+      identity: 'GET /venues',
+      handler: 'findAll',
+      handlerLabel: 'Method',
+      handlerFile: CONTROLLER_FILE,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('resolves every route to the controller method that declared it', () => {
+    // `claim()` is first-writer-wins per `(method, url)`; a mis-keyed route
+    // would show up here as a handler donated to the wrong URL, not as an
+    // absence.
+    expect(routes()).toEqual([
+      {
+        identity: 'DELETE /venues/:id',
+        handler: 'remove',
+        handlerLabel: 'Method',
+        handlerFile: CONTROLLER_FILE,
+      },
+      {
+        identity: 'GET /health',
+        handler: 'health',
+        handlerLabel: 'Method',
+        handlerFile: HEALTH_FILE,
+      },
+      {
+        identity: 'GET /venues',
+        handler: 'findAll',
+        handlerLabel: 'Method',
+        handlerFile: CONTROLLER_FILE,
+      },
+      {
+        identity: 'GET /venues/search',
+        handler: 'search',
+        handlerLabel: 'Method',
+        handlerFile: CONTROLLER_FILE,
+      },
+      {
+        identity: 'POST /venues',
+        handler: 'create',
+        handlerLabel: 'Method',
+        handlerFile: CONTROLLER_FILE,
+      },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('splits one URL into one Route node per verb', () => {
+    // `@Get()` and `@Post()` on the same controller share a URL. `routeNodeKey`
+    // makes them distinct identities; collapsing them would drop a live
+    // endpoint and hand its handler to the survivor.
+    expect(
+      routes()
+        .filter((route) => route.identity.endsWith(' /venues'))
+        .map((route) => `${route.identity} -> ${route.handler}`),
+    ).toEqual(['GET /venues -> findAll', 'POST /venues -> create']);
+  });
+
+  it('carries a prefix-less @Controller() through to a bare URL', () => {
+    // `@Controller()` maps to `prefix: null`, and null must reach the join as
+    // "no prefix" rather than as the string 'null' or a leading empty segment.
+    expect(identities()).toContain('GET /health');
+    expect(identities().filter((id) => id.includes('//'))).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('records per-decorator provenance on the HANDLES_ROUTE edge', () => {
+    // Nest routes are DECLARED by an annotation, so they take the generic
+    // `decorator-<name>` source rather than a bespoke one — the same channel
+    // Spring and FastAPI use, which is the point of modelling on `spring.ts`.
+    const routeIds = new Set(routeNodes().map((node) => node.id));
+    expect(
+      [
+        ...new Set(
+          relationships()
+            .filter((rel) => rel.type === 'HANDLES_ROUTE' && routeIds.has(rel.targetId))
+            .map((rel) => String(rel.reason)),
+        ),
+      ].sort(),
+    ).toEqual(['decorator-Delete', 'decorator-Get', 'decorator-Post']);
+  });
+
+  describe('precision — what must NOT become a route', () => {
+    // Absence assertions are satisfied just as well by a file that was never
+    // read, so prove ingestion first; otherwise this whole block is decoration.
+    it('ingested the unreadable-prefix controller', () => {
+      expect(
+        nodes()
+          .filter((node) => String(node.properties.filePath ?? '').endsWith('legacy.controller.ts'))
+          .map((node) => String(node.properties.name)),
+      ).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['LegacyController', 'legacyReports']));
+    });
+
+    it('drops a controller whose prefix is not a literal', () => {
+      // `@Controller(ROUTE_PREFIXES.legacy)` — the URL is unknowable, and
+      // `route_map` presents its output as fact. Emitting `/reports` here would
+      // be a wrong route, which is worse than a missing one.
+      expect(identities().filter((id) => id.includes('reports'))).toEqual([]);
+      expect(identities().filter((id) => id.includes('legacy'))).toEqual([]);
+    });
+
+    it('ingested the decorated non-controller service', () => {
+      expect(
+        nodes()
+          .filter((node) => String(node.properties.filePath ?? '').endsWith('venues.service.ts'))
+          .map((node) => String(node.properties.name)),
+      ).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['VenuesService', 'listVenues', 'searchVenues']));
+    });
+
+    it('does not mint routes from a class with no @Controller', () => {
+      // Verb decorators are believed only inside a `@Controller` class; without
+      // that gate any library sharing the names would mint phantom endpoints.
+      expect(routes().filter((route) => route.handlerFile.endsWith('venues.service.ts'))).toEqual(
+        [],
+      );
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/nest-decorator-routes.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/nest-decorator-routes.test.ts
index 82698ff19..f6bfe2f55 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/nest-decorator-routes.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/nest-decorator-routes.test.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
 import Parser from 'tree-sitter';
 import TypeScript from 'tree-sitter-typescript';
+import JavaScript from 'tree-sitter-javascript';
 import { extractNestRoutes } from '../../src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/nest.js';
 import { normalizeExtractedRoutePath } from '../../src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/route-path.js';
 
 const tsParser = new Parser();
 tsParser.setLanguage(TypeScript.typescript);
 
+// The extractor is registered on the JavaScript provider too, and the two
+// grammars place a method decorator differently, so both must be exercised.
+const jsParser = new Parser();
+jsParser.setLanguage(JavaScript);
+
 const extract = (source: string) =>
   extractNestRoutes(tsParser.parse(source), 'src/x.controller.ts');
 
@@ -16,6 +22,12 @@ const urls = (source: string) =>
     (r) => `${r.httpMethod} ${normalizeExtractedRoutePath(r.routePath, r.prefix ?? null)}`,
   );
 
+/** The same, parsed with tree-sitter-javascript instead. */
+const jsUrls = (source: string) =>
+  extractNestRoutes(jsParser.parse(source), 'src/x.controller.js').map(
+    (r) => `${r.httpMethod} ${normalizeExtractedRoutePath(r.routePath, r.prefix ?? null)}`,
+  );
+
 describe('NestJS decorator routes', () => {
   it('joins the controller prefix with each method path', () => {
     expect(
@@ -166,15 +178,24 @@ describe('NestJS decorator routes', () => {
   it('ignores verb-named decorators on a class that is not a @Controller', () => {
     // `Get`/`Post` are ordinary identifiers; without the @Controller
     // requirement any library reusing those names mints phantom endpoints.
+    // The unrelated controller is what makes this test reach the per-class
+    // check: without a `@Controller` anywhere the file short-circuits at the
+    // parse-free substring gate and the assertion proves nothing.
     expect(
-      extract(`
+      urls(`
+        @Controller('y')
+        export class RealController {
+          @Get('real')
+          real() {}
+        }
+
         @Injectable()
         export class NotAController {
           @Get('looks-like-a-route')
           nope() {}
         }
       `),
-    ).toEqual([]);
+    ).toEqual(['GET /y/real']);
   });
 
   it('drops a route whose path is a constant it cannot read', () => {
@@ -229,4 +250,175 @@ describe('NestJS decorator routes', () => {
   it('returns nothing for a file with no @Controller at all', () => {
     expect(extract(`export function get() { return 1; }`)).toEqual([]);
   });
+
+  // ─── Literal decoding ──────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+  it('decodes an escape in a path instead of deleting it', () => {
+    // The source below spells the Nest regex param the way a controller does,
+    // `@Get(':id(\\d+)')`, whose runtime value is `:id(\d+)`. tree-sitter SPLITS
+    // that literal around the escape_sequence, so keeping only the
+    // string_fragment children and joining them yielded `:id(d+)` — a URL the
+    // app never serves, i.e. the wrong-path outcome this module calls worse
+    // than a missing one.
+    const [route] = extract(`
+      @Controller('users')
+      export class UserController {
+        @Get(':id(\\\\d+)')
+        one() {}
+      }
+    `);
+    expect(route.routePath).toBe(':id(\\d+)');
+  });
+
+  it('decodes a unicode escape rather than dropping its payload', () => {
+    expect(
+      urls(`
+        @Controller('v')
+        export class C {
+          @Get('/v\\u0069ews')
+          views() {}
+        }
+      `),
+    ).toEqual(['GET /v/views']);
+  });
+
+  it("treats an empty @Controller('') as carrying no prefix", () => {
+    const [route] = extract(`
+      @Controller('')
+      export class C {
+        @Get('a') a() {}
+      }
+    `);
+    expect(route.prefix).toBeNull();
+    expect(normalizeExtractedRoutePath(route.routePath, route.prefix ?? null)).toBe('/a');
+  });
+
+  // ─── Controller shapes ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+  it('extracts routes from an abstract controller base class', () => {
+    // `export abstract class` parses as abstract_class_declaration, a separate
+    // node type — and a decorated abstract base sharing CRUD routes with its
+    // subclasses is ordinary Nest, so missing it drops the whole controller.
+    expect(
+      urls(`
+        @Controller('base')
+        export abstract class BaseController {
+          @Get('a') a() {}
+        }
+      `),
+    ).toEqual(['GET /base/a']);
+  });
+
+  it('reads the path out of the object form used for URI versioning', () => {
+    expect(
+      urls(`
+        @Controller({ path: 'cats', version: '1' })
+        export class CatsController {
+          @Get('breeds') breeds() {}
+        }
+      `),
+    ).toEqual(['GET /cats/breeds']);
+  });
+
+  it('reads a quoted path key, rather than dropping the class over the quotes', () => {
+    expect(
+      urls(`
+        @Controller({ 'path': 'cats' })
+        export class CatsController {
+          @Get('breeds') breeds() {}
+        }
+      `),
+    ).toEqual(['GET /cats/breeds']);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    { label: 'no path key', argument: "{ version: '1' }" },
+    { label: 'a computed path', argument: '{ path: BASE_PATH }' },
+    { label: 'a computed path key', argument: "{ [PATH_KEY]: 'cats' }" },
+  ])('still drops a controller whose object form has $label', ({ argument }) => {
+    expect(
+      extract(`
+        @Controller(${argument})
+        export class C {
+          @Get('a') a() {}
+        }
+      `),
+    ).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('extracts from a .js controller, where a decorator is a CHILD of the method', () => {
+    // tree-sitter-javascript nests a method decorator inside method_definition
+    // rather than placing it before as a sibling. The same extractor serves the
+    // JavaScript provider, so reading siblings only meant every .js Nest
+    // controller emitted nothing while the wiring claimed nestjs coverage.
+    expect(
+      jsUrls(`
+        @Controller('venues')
+        export class VenueController {
+          @UseGuards(AuthGuard)
+          @Get('search')
+          search() {}
+        }
+      `),
+    ).toEqual(['GET /venues/search']);
+  });
+
+  // ─── Verb coverage ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+  it('treats @Sse as the GET endpoint it mounts', () => {
+    expect(
+      urls(`
+        @Controller('events')
+        export class EventsController {
+          @Sse('stream') stream() {}
+        }
+      `),
+    ).toEqual(['GET /events/stream']);
+  });
+
+  it('emits nothing for a decorator that mounts no endpoint', () => {
+    // Paired with the @Sse case above: without it, an unsupported route
+    // decorator and a non-route decorator are the same silent [].
+    expect(
+      extract(`
+        @Controller('events')
+        export class EventsController {
+          @UseGuards(AuthGuard) guarded() {}
+        }
+      `),
+    ).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it.each(['toString', 'constructor'])(
+    'does not mint a route for a decorator named @%s',
+    (name) => {
+      // The verb table is looked up by decorator name, so a plain object would
+      // answer `Object.prototype.toString` here — truthy, and emitted verbatim
+      // as the route's httpMethod.
+      expect(
+        extract(`
+        @Controller('x')
+        export class C {
+          @${name}() f() {}
+        }
+      `),
+      ).toEqual([]);
+    },
+  );
+
+  it("does not carry a decorated property's decorators onto the next method", () => {
+    // The decorator run is accumulated in one forward pass over the class body;
+    // a non-method member must reset it, the way the backward walk used to stop.
+    expect(
+      urls(`
+        @Controller('di')
+        export class C {
+          @Inject(SERVICE)
+          private readonly svc: Service;
+
+          @Get('a') a() {}
+        }
+      `),
+    ).toEqual(['GET /di/a']);
+  });
 });