diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/python.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/python.ts
index 7d8bd99af..7a0fa2f7f 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/python.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-patterns/python.ts
@@ -1137,13 +1137,17 @@ export const PYTHON_HTTP_PLUGIN: HttpLanguagePlugin = {
   name: 'python-http',
   language: Python,
   // routeCoverage intentionally LEFT at the default 'partial' (#2138 Part 2).
-  // It would be a no-op even if set to 'complete': FastAPI decorator routes set
-  // no handlerName (generic worker path) and Django sets methodName: null, so no
-  // Python file ever resolves a handlerSymbolId and none would be parse-skipped.
-  // Declaring 'complete' now is only a latent trap for the moment a follow-up
-  // gives FastAPI routes a handlerName. `hasConsumerSignals` is kept (and is a
-  // true superset of scan()'s consumer shapes) so the precondition already holds
-  // when Python is later flipped to 'complete'.
+  // 'complete' is now an active data-loss risk rather than a no-op: FastAPI and
+  // Flask decorator routes do carry a handlerName (Python's
+  // `decoratorRouteHandlerName` hook reads the `decorated_definition`), so their
+  // files can resolve every handlerSymbolId and become parse-skip candidates.
+  // The flag asserts more than that — it asserts ingestion emits a Route node
+  // for EVERY provider route this scan() finds, and it does not: Flask's
+  // imperative `add_url_rule('/p', view_func=handler)` registration below has no
+  // ingestion counterpart, so skipping a file that mixes it with resolved
+  // decorator routes would drop those providers. `hasConsumerSignals` is kept
+  // (and is a true superset of scan()'s consumer shapes) so the consumer half of
+  // the precondition already holds once provider parity is closed.
   // Consumer signals scan() can detect: `requests.<verb>`/`requests.request`,
   // `httpx` (sync/async client), the `uri=`/`url=` keyword/variable wrapper
   // calls, plus aiohttp/urllib. Conservative — over-matching only costs a parse.
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-route-extractor.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-route-extractor.ts
index 6aa4c8476..5def6a9a9 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-route-extractor.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/group/extractors/http-route-extractor.ts
@@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ export class HttpRouteExtractor implements ContractExtractor {
             dbExecutor,
             getDetections,
             resolveDetectionSymbol,
+            loadFileSymbols,
             coveredFiles,
           )
         : [];
@@ -690,6 +691,7 @@ export class HttpRouteExtractor implements ContractExtractor {
     db: CypherExecutor,
     getDetections: (rel: string) => Promise<HttpDetection[]>,
     resolveSymbol: (filePath: string, d: HttpDetection) => Promise<ResolvedSymbol | null>,
+    loadFileSymbols: (filePath: string) => Promise<Record<string, unknown>[]>,
     coveredFiles?: Set<string>,
   ): Promise<ExtractedContract[]> {
     const out: ExtractedContract[] = [];
@@ -749,15 +751,11 @@ export class HttpRouteExtractor implements ContractExtractor {
         if (!method) method = 'GET';
         symbolUid = handlerSymbolId;
         if (filePath) {
-          try {
-            const syms = await db(CONTAINING_QUERY, { filePath });
-            const hit = syms.find((s) => String(s.uid ?? s[0]) === handlerSymbolId);
-            if (hit) {
-              symbolName = String(hit.name ?? hit[1]) || symbolName;
-              symPath = String(hit.filePath ?? hit[2]) || filePath;
-            }
-          } catch {
-            /* keep the authoritative uid + basename fallback */
+          const syms = await loadFileSymbols(filePath);
+          const hit = syms.find((s) => String(s.uid ?? s[0]) === handlerSymbolId);
+          if (hit) {
+            symbolName = String(hit.name ?? hit[1]) || symbolName;
+            symPath = String(hit.filePath ?? hit[2]) || filePath;
           }
         }
       } else {
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-provider.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-provider.ts
index 3ca60f372..ae992b12a 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-provider.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-provider.ts
@@ -413,6 +413,28 @@ interface LanguageProviderConfig {
     lineOffset: number,
   ) => ExtractedDecoratorRoute[];
 
+  /**
+   * Name of the function a route decorator captured by the worker's generic
+   * `@decorator` query applies to, given the decorator's own AST node.
+   *
+   * The worker knows a decorator is a route decorator but not how this
+   * language's grammar attaches it to a definition, so it hands the node over
+   * unchanged and takes whatever the language returns. Only languages that
+   * declare route handlers through the generic decorator captures need this;
+   * languages with a dedicated {@link extractDecoratorRoutes} extractor
+   * (JS/TS via `nest.ts`, Java via `spring.ts`) already set
+   * `ExtractedDecoratorRoute.handlerName` there and should leave this undefined.
+   *
+   * Implementations must read their own decorated-definition shape directly and
+   * return undefined for anything else — never climb ancestors to find a name,
+   * since a decorator that is not attached to a function has no handler and a
+   * borrowed enclosing name resolves `handlerSymbolId` to the wrong symbol. The
+   * routes phase treats undefined as "fall back to the file-level edge".
+   *
+   * Default: undefined (no handler name from generic decorator captures).
+   */
+  readonly decoratorRouteHandlerName?: (decoratorNode: SyntaxNode) => string | undefined;
+
   /**
    * Collect a project-wide, language-agnostic view of route-defining
    * class/interface declarations (`SharedSpringType`) from a parsed file.
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/python.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/python.ts
index ca40a4566..ce8d0fa90 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/python.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/python.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ import {
 import { extractDjangoRoutes } from '../route-extractors/django.js';
 import { discoverDjangoRootUrls } from '../route-extractors/django-root-discovery.js';
 import { extractPythonModuleConstants } from '../route-extractors/python-const-resolver.js';
+import { pythonDecoratorRouteHandlerName } from '../route-extractors/python-decorator-handler.js';
 
 const BUILT_INS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
   'print',
@@ -143,6 +144,7 @@ export const pythonProvider = defineLanguage({
     discoverDjangoRootUrls(files, contentMap, reader),
   extractRoutes: (tree, filePath, reader, parser) =>
     parser ? extractDjangoRoutes(tree, filePath, parser, reader) : [],
+  decoratorRouteHandlerName: pythonDecoratorRouteHandlerName,
   labelOverride: pythonFunctionDefinitionLabel,
 
   // ── RFC #909 Ring 3: scope-based resolution hooks (RFC §5) ──────────
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/routes.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/routes.ts
index e93fa033c..42bf639d2 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/routes.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/routes.ts
@@ -336,32 +336,31 @@ export const routesPhase: PipelinePhase<RoutesOutput> = {
 
     let handlerContents: Map<string, string> | undefined;
     if (routeRegistry.size > 0) {
-      const handlerPathFor = (routeKey: string, entry: RouteEntry): string => {
-        if (entry.source !== DATA_ROUTE_TABLE_SOURCE) return entry.filePath;
-        const handlerSymbolId = routeHandlerSymbols.get(routeKey);
-        const resolvedPath = handlerSymbolId
-          ? ctx.graph.getNode(handlerSymbolId)?.properties.filePath
-          : undefined;
-        return typeof resolvedPath === 'string' ? resolvedPath : entry.filePath;
-      };
-      const handlerPaths = [...routeRegistry].map(([key, entry]) => handlerPathFor(key, entry));
-      handlerContents = await readFileContents(ctx.repoPath, handlerPaths);
+      // Resolve once so content attribution, the route stamp, and the edge use
+      // the same live graph node. Pre-seeded routes never own handler symbols.
+      const routes = [...routeRegistry].map(([routeKey, entry]) => {
+        const id = preSeededKeys.has(routeKey) ? undefined : routeHandlerSymbols.get(routeKey);
+        const node = id ? ctx.graph.getNode(id) : undefined;
+        const handlerSymbol = id && node ? { id, node } : undefined;
+        const resolvedPath =
+          entry.source === DATA_ROUTE_TABLE_SOURCE
+            ? handlerSymbol?.node.properties.filePath
+            : undefined;
+        const handlerPath = typeof resolvedPath === 'string' ? resolvedPath : entry.filePath;
+        return { routeKey, entry, handlerSymbol, handlerPath };
+      });
+      handlerContents = await readFileContents(
+        ctx.repoPath,
+        routes.map(({ handlerPath }) => handlerPath),
+      );
 
-      for (const [routeKey, entry] of routeRegistry) {
+      for (const { routeKey, entry, handlerSymbol, handlerPath } of routes) {
         const { source: routeSource, method: routeMethod, url } = entry;
-        const handlerPath = handlerPathFor(routeKey, entry);
         const content = handlerContents.get(handlerPath);
-        // A pre-seeded route can never legitimately appear in
-        // `routeHandlerSymbols`, so a key that does is a route that LOST (#3049).
-        const handlerSymbolId = preSeededKeys.has(routeKey)
-          ? undefined
-          : routeHandlerSymbols.get(routeKey);
+        const handlerSymbolId = handlerSymbol?.id;
         const analysisContent =
           entry.source === DATA_ROUTE_TABLE_SOURCE && content
-            ? handlerSymbolContent(
-                content,
-                handlerSymbolId ? ctx.graph.getNode(handlerSymbolId) : undefined,
-              )
+            ? handlerSymbolContent(content, handlerSymbol?.node)
             : content;
 
         const { responseKeys, errorKeys } = analysisContent
@@ -397,6 +396,19 @@ export const routesPhase: PipelinePhase<RoutesOutput> = {
           confidence: 1.0,
           reason: routeSource,
         });
+
+        // Keep the file edge for existing extractor queries; add the live
+        // definition edge for explicit handler-level traversal.
+        if (handlerSymbolId) {
+          ctx.graph.addRelationship({
+            id: generateId('HANDLES_ROUTE', `${handlerSymbolId}->${routeNodeId}`),
+            sourceId: handlerSymbolId,
+            targetId: routeNodeId,
+            type: 'HANDLES_ROUTE',
+            confidence: 1.0,
+            reason: routeSource,
+          });
+        }
       }
 
       if (isDev) {
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/python-decorator-handler.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/python-decorator-handler.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fca06c857
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/python-decorator-handler.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/**
+ * Return the function name attached to a Python decorator's immediate
+ * `decorated_definition`; reject every other shape rather than climbing.
+ */
+
+import type { SyntaxNode } from '../utils/ast-helpers.js';
+
+export function pythonDecoratorRouteHandlerName(decoratorNode: SyntaxNode): string | undefined {
+  const decorated = decoratorNode.parent;
+  if (decorated === null || decorated.type !== 'decorated_definition') return undefined;
+
+  // `async def` is still a `function_definition` in tree-sitter-python (the
+  // `async` keyword is an anonymous child), so async handlers need no branch.
+  const definition = decorated.childForFieldName('definition');
+  if (!definition || definition.type !== 'function_definition') return undefined;
+
+  const name = definition.childForFieldName('name')?.text;
+  return name !== undefined && name.length > 0 ? name : undefined;
+}
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
index 7c46c6011..071b31784 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/workers/parse-worker.ts
@@ -1795,12 +1795,14 @@ const processFileGroup = (
           const httpMethod = ['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE', 'PATCH'].includes(method)
             ? method
             : 'GET';
+          const handlerName = provider.decoratorRouteHandlerName?.(decoratorNode);
           const base = {
             filePath: file.path,
             httpMethod,
             decoratorName,
             lineNumber: decoratorNode.startPosition.row + lineOffset,
             ...(decoratorReceiver ? { decoratorReceiver } : {}),
+            ...(handlerName ? { handlerName } : {}),
           };
           if (decoratorArgStr) {
             // String-literal path (the fast path, unchanged). Empty-string
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/lbug/schema.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/lbug/schema.ts
index cc0cc78fd..3c6ec0131 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/lbug/schema.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/lbug/schema.ts
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ const DEFINITION_ANCHOR_LABELS: readonly NodeTableName[] = NODE_TABLES.filter(
  *  | `Annotation` | `frameworks/spring/conditionals.ts` CONDITIONAL_ON | `resolveDefGraphId` / `resolveCallerGraphId` |
  *  | `Community`  | `pipeline-phases/communities.ts` MEMBER_OF     | Leiden membership, `isCommunitySymbol`-gated |
  *  | `Process`    | `pipeline-phases/processes.ts` STEP_IN_PROCESS | trace step node                       |
- *  | `Route`      | `pipeline-phases/routes.ts` HANDLES_ROUTE      | `generateId('File', handlerPath)` — a literal |
+ *  | `Route`      | `pipeline-phases/routes.ts` HANDLES_ROUTE      | `generateId('File', handlerPath)` — a literal — plus, when the route's handler resolves, that definition |
  *  | `Tool`       | `pipeline-phases/tools.ts` HANDLES_TOOL        | `handlerNodeId` — whatever definition the decorator sat on |
  *  | `File`       | `languages/vue/scope-resolver.ts` BINDS_EVENT_HANDLER | handler node                    |
  *  | `Record`     | `cobol-processor.ts` × 8 external-resource sites | `scopedCallerLookup`                |
@@ -383,25 +383,35 @@ const DEFINITION_ANCHOR_LABELS: readonly NodeTableName[] = NODE_TABLES.filter(
  * {@link DEFINITION_ANCHOR_LABELS} × this set covers all four plus every
  * sibling the same emitters can reach.
  *
- * TWO TARGETS ARE LABEL-GATED TODAY, and the cross product over-declares for
- * them ON PURPOSE (~47 of the 182 attachment pairs are unreachable right now):
+ * TWO TARGETS USE ONLY PART OF THEIR CROSS PRODUCT TODAY, and it over-declares
+ * for them ON PURPOSE (~45 of the 182 attachment pairs have no emitter that can
+ * reach them right now):
  *  - `Community` — `isCommunitySymbol` (`community-processor.ts`) admits only
  *    `Function` / `Class` / `Method` / `Interface` as members, so the other 22
  *    anchors cannot source a MEMBER_OF edge until that predicate widens.
- *  - `Route` — HANDLES_ROUTE sources `generateId('File', handlerPath)`, a
- *    literal `File`, so every non-`File` anchor is headroom.
+ *  - `Route` — HANDLES_ROUTE always sources the literal
+ *    `generateId('File', handlerPath)`, and additionally the route's HANDLER
+ *    DEFINITION whenever `routeHandlerSymbols` produced an id that
+ *    `ctx.graph.getNode` confirms is in the graph. That second anchor is a
+ *    lookup result the emitter never label-checks; handler resolution returns
+ *    `Function` / `Method` definitions today, so `Route` is no longer a
+ *    `File`-only target and the remaining anchors are headroom.
  *
  * Those pairs stay declared because the two sides of the error are not
  * symmetric: an UNDECLARED pair makes LadybugDB reject the edge and aborts
  * `analyze` outright on a user's repo, while an unused DECLARED pair costs
  * almost nothing — `bench/schema-pairs` measured the pre-#2801 332→450 growth
- * (118 pairs, of which these ~47 are a part) at 0.93–1.05×, i.e. inside
+ * (118 pairs, of which these ~45 are a part) at 0.93–1.05×, i.e. inside
  * run-to-run noise. #2801's 11 generated `Record` pairs bring the total to 461.
  * Its Windows measurements and noise caveats live in the benchmark README; the
  * operational production ceiling is the checked 1.5× budget.
  * Every one of the four aborts above came from re-narrowing a set to what one
  * predicate looked like it allowed — so a reading of `isCommunitySymbol` is not
- * grounds to shrink this. Widening either predicate is then a no-op here.
+ * grounds to shrink this. `Route` is the worked example in the other direction:
+ * the definition-level HANDLES_ROUTE edge started emitting `Function|Route` /
+ * `Method|Route` with no DDL change, because those pairs were already declared.
+ * Widening `isCommunitySymbol`, or handler resolution returning a further
+ * label, is likewise a no-op here.
  *
  * `Route` / `Tool` being excluded as ANCHORS (see {@link NON_DEFINITION_LABELS})
  * is likewise a SIZE choice, not something derived from a rule: they do source
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
index 1dcd4701f..bd3b961ec 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts
@@ -705,7 +705,18 @@ import { copyV8CacheIfPresent, tryLoadV8Cache, writeV8CacheFile } from './v8-sid
 // pre-change cache would have served as zero. origin/main at allocation is 88.
 // RE-CHECK AGAINST origin/main AND OPEN PRs IMMEDIATELY BEFORE MERGING — this
 // entry was allocated 83 first, and five bumps landed upstream before it merged.
-const SCHEMA_BUMP = 89;
+// 89 -> 90 (#2865): route decorator captures now carry `handlerName` in
+// `decoratorRoutes`, which is what lets `resolveRouteHandlerSymbols` stamp
+// `handlerSymbolId` and the routes phase emit the definition-level
+// HANDLES_ROUTE edge. The field is minted in the parse WORKER and persisted
+// verbatim, so a warm v89 cache replays handler-less decorator routes: every
+// route loses its definition-level association on incremental analyze while
+// every cold-run test passes — the inert-feature trap the entries above record.
+// 89 is now taken by merged #3128. 90 is the next free value above origin/main
+// (89) and above every in-flight claim found by scanning open PRs'
+// parse-cache.ts at their exact head SHAs (highest other open claim was still
+// ≤88). RE-CHECK AGAINST origin/main AND OPEN PRs IMMEDIATELY BEFORE MERGING.
+const SCHEMA_BUMP = 90;
 const GITNEXUS_PKG_VERSION = (() => {
   try {
     // package.json sits at gitnexus/package.json — two levels up from
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/integration/data-route-table-pipeline.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/integration/data-route-table-pipeline.test.ts
index adff70250..0965a80b3 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/integration/data-route-table-pipeline.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/integration/data-route-table-pipeline.test.ts
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ describe('data-driven route table ingestion', () => {
       const source = result.graph.getNode(rel.sourceId);
       const target = result.graph.getNode(rel.targetId);
       if (source === undefined || target === undefined) return;
+      // A resolved route also carries a definition-level edge from the handler
+      // symbol itself; this assertion is about the file-level edge, which is the
+      // one `http-route-extractor.ts` queries. The definition edges are pinned
+      // by the next test.
+      if (source.label !== 'File') return;
       handled.push({
         filePath: String(source.properties.filePath),
         method: target.properties.method as string | undefined,
@@ -106,6 +111,29 @@ describe('data-driven route table ingestion', () => {
     ]);
   });
 
+  it('also links every resolved route from the handler definition it stamped', () => {
+    // The definition-level edge must agree with `Route.handlerSymbolId` — both
+    // come from the same graph-resolved symbol — and its source must be a real
+    // definition node, not a File.
+    const definitionEdges = new Map<string, string>();
+    result.graph.forEachRelationship((rel) => {
+      if (rel.type !== 'HANDLES_ROUTE' || rel.reason !== DATA_ROUTE_TABLE_SOURCE) return;
+      const source = result.graph.getNode(rel.sourceId);
+      if (source === undefined || source.label === 'File') return;
+      definitionEdges.set(rel.targetId, rel.sourceId);
+    });
+
+    const resolved = routes().filter((route) => route.handler !== undefined);
+    expect(resolved).toHaveLength(3);
+    result.graph.forEachNode((node) => {
+      if (node.label !== 'Route') return;
+      const handlerSymbolId = node.properties.handlerSymbolId as string | undefined;
+      if (handlerSymbolId === undefined) return;
+      expect(definitionEdges.get(node.id), String(node.properties.name)).toBe(handlerSymbolId);
+      expect(result.graph.getNode(handlerSymbolId)?.label).toMatch(/^(Function|Method)$/);
+    });
+  });
+
   it('extracts response shapes from each resolved handler only', () => {
     const getUsers = routes().find((route) => route.path === '/users' && route.method === 'GET');
     const postUsers = routes().find((route) => route.path === '/users' && route.method === 'POST');
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/integration/fastapi-composed-route-constants.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/integration/fastapi-composed-route-constants.test.ts
index e0701e37c..89e6bcb45 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/integration/fastapi-composed-route-constants.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/integration/fastapi-composed-route-constants.test.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,13 @@ import {
   loadParseCache,
   saveParseCache,
   PARSE_CACHE_VERSION,
+  pruneCache,
+  type ParseCache,
 } from '../../src/storage/parse-cache.js';
+import {
+  getDurableParsedFileDir,
+  pruneAndSaveDurableParsedFileStore,
+} from '../../src/storage/parsedfile-store.js';
 
 const FIXTURE = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'fixtures', 'fastapi-composed-app');
 
@@ -164,35 +170,67 @@ describe('FastAPI composed route constants — ingestion↔group parity (#2391 R
 
 // ─── Warm parse-cache: composed routes survive the cache serialization ────────
 
-describe('FastAPI composed route constants — warm parse-cache (#2391 SCHEMA_BUMP)', () => {
-  it('re-resolves the composed route on an all-hit warm run after a save/load round-trip', async () => {
+describe('FastAPI composed routes — warm parse-cache (#2391, #2865)', () => {
+  it('replays composed paths and handler metadata on an all-hit warm run', async () => {
     const storageDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'gitnexus-composed-warm-'));
     try {
-      // Run #1 populates the parse cache.
-      const cold = {
+      const cold: ParseCache = {
         version: PARSE_CACHE_VERSION,
         entries: new Map(),
         usedKeys: new Set<string>(),
+        storagePath: storageDir,
+        onDiskKeys: new Set<string>(),
       };
-      await runPipelineFromRepo(FIXTURE, () => {}, { parseCache: cold });
-
-      // Force the JSON round-trip (mapReplacer/mapReviver) the real warm path uses
-      // — this is where the new `moduleConstants` Maps and `routePathExpr` fields
-      // must survive, or a warm re-analyze silently drops the composed route.
-      await saveParseCache(storageDir, cold);
-      const warm = await loadParseCache(storageDir);
-      expect(warm).not.toBeNull();
-
-      const result = await runPipelineFromRepo(FIXTURE, () => {}, {
-        parseCache: warm ?? undefined,
+      const coldResult = await runPipelineFromRepo(FIXTURE, () => {}, {
+        parseCache: cold,
+        workerPoolSize: 1,
       });
+      expect(coldResult.usedWorkerPool).toBe(true);
+
+      pruneCache(cold, cold.usedKeys);
+      const savedKeys = await saveParseCache(storageDir, cold);
+      await pruneAndSaveDurableParsedFileStore(
+        getDurableParsedFileDir(storageDir),
+        PARSE_CACHE_VERSION,
+        new Set(savedKeys),
+      );
+      const warm = await loadParseCache(storageDir);
+      const replay = await runPipelineFromRepo(FIXTURE, () => {}, {
+        parseCache: warm,
+        workerPoolSize: 1,
+      });
+      expect(replay.usedWorkerPool).toBe(false);
+
       const urls = new Set<string>();
-      result.graph.forEachNode((n) => {
+      replay.graph.forEachNode((n) => {
         if (n.label === 'Route') urls.add(String(n.properties.name));
       });
       expect(urls.has('/api/v1/widgets/get')).toBe(true);
       expect(urls.has('/root/mid/leaf')).toBe(true);
       expect(urls.has('/')).toBe(false);
+
+      const handlers = (pipeline: PipelineResult): Map<string, string> => {
+        const out = new Map<string, string>();
+        pipeline.graph.forEachNode((node) => {
+          if (node.label !== 'Route') return;
+          const id = node.properties.handlerSymbolId;
+          if (typeof id === 'string') out.set(String(node.properties.name), id);
+        });
+        return out;
+      };
+      const coldHandlers = handlers(coldResult);
+      expect(coldHandlers.get('/api/v1/widgets/get')).toMatch(/create_widget/);
+      expect(handlers(replay)).toEqual(coldHandlers);
+
+      const handlerId = coldHandlers.get('/api/v1/widgets/get');
+      const routeId = [...replay.graph.iterNodes()].find(
+        (node) => node.label === 'Route' && node.properties.name === '/api/v1/widgets/get',
+      )?.id;
+      expect(
+        [...replay.graph.iterRelationshipsByType('HANDLES_ROUTE')].some(
+          (edge) => edge.sourceId === handlerId && edge.targetId === routeId,
+        ),
+      ).toBe(true);
     } finally {
       fs.rmSync(storageDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
     }
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/group/http-route-graph-method.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/group/http-route-graph-method.test.ts
index 0391c28ce..44daf6756 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/group/http-route-graph-method.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/group/http-route-graph-method.test.ts
@@ -248,6 +248,91 @@ describe('HttpRouteExtractor — Route.method from graph (Step A / #2138)', () =
     expect(out[0].symbolName).toBe('createOrder');
   });
 
+  it('fast path: CONTAINING_QUERY runs once per file, not once per resolved route', async () => {
+    // The fast path resolves a handler per ROUTE but CONTAINING_QUERY is a
+    // per-FILE lookup. Three resolved routes in one controller must therefore
+    // execute it exactly once — otherwise a group sync re-scans the same file
+    // for every route it registers.
+    const ids = ['listOrders', 'createOrder', 'deleteOrder'].map(
+      (name) => [name, `Method:OrderController.java:OrderController.${name}#0`] as const,
+    );
+    const symbols = ids.map(([name, uid]) => ({
+      uid,
+      name,
+      filePath: 'OrderController.java',
+      startLine: 10,
+      endLine: 12,
+      labels: ['Method'],
+      0: uid,
+      1: name,
+      2: 'OrderController.java',
+    }));
+
+    const db = vi.fn(async (query: string) => {
+      if (query.includes('HANDLES_ROUTE')) {
+        return ids.map(([name, uid], i) => ({
+          fileId: 'f1',
+          filePath: 'OrderController.java',
+          routePath: `/api/orders/${name}`,
+          routeId: `r${i}`,
+          routeMethod: 'GET',
+          handlerSymbolId: uid,
+          routeSource: 'framework-route',
+        }));
+      }
+      if (query.includes('UNION ALL')) return symbols;
+      return [];
+    });
+
+    const out = await new HttpRouteExtractor().extract(db, '/repo', {
+      name: 'r',
+      url: 'r',
+    } as never);
+
+    const containingCalls = db.mock.calls.filter(([query]) => query.includes('UNION ALL'));
+    expect(containingCalls).toHaveLength(1);
+    // Memoization must not cost resolution: every route still names its handler.
+    expect(out.map((c) => c.symbolName).sort()).toEqual([
+      'createOrder',
+      'deleteOrder',
+      'listOrders',
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('fast path: a failed CONTAINING_QUERY is cached as empty and not retried per route', async () => {
+    // Failures previously fell through to the uid + basename fallback per route;
+    // memoizing must keep that fallback while collapsing the retries.
+    const ids = ['listOrders', 'createOrder'].map(
+      (name) => [name, `Method:OrderController.java:OrderController.${name}#0`] as const,
+    );
+
+    const db = vi.fn(async (query: string) => {
+      if (query.includes('HANDLES_ROUTE')) {
+        return ids.map(([name, uid], i) => ({
+          fileId: 'f1',
+          filePath: 'OrderController.java',
+          routePath: `/api/orders/${name}`,
+          routeId: `r${i}`,
+          routeMethod: 'GET',
+          handlerSymbolId: uid,
+          routeSource: 'framework-route',
+        }));
+      }
+      if (query.includes('UNION ALL')) throw new Error('boom');
+      return [];
+    });
+
+    const out = await new HttpRouteExtractor().extract(db, '/repo', {
+      name: 'r',
+      url: 'r',
+    } as never);
+
+    expect(db.mock.calls.filter(([query]) => query.includes('UNION ALL'))).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(out.map((c) => c.symbolUid).sort()).toEqual(ids.map(([, uid]) => uid).sort());
+    // The authoritative uid survives; only the display name falls back.
+    for (const contract of out) expect(contract.symbolName).toBe('OrderController.java');
+  });
+
   it('backward-compat: no Route.method and undecodable reason stays at conservative GET', async () => {
     FILE_DETECTIONS.set('routes.ts', [detection('provider', 'POST', '/api/orders', 'createOrder')]);
 
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
index 6f73c2dba..058f12217 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-parse-cache.test.ts
@@ -244,12 +244,17 @@ describe('PARSE_CACHE_VERSION', () => {
   // collided, because each re-checked once and neither re-checked after the
   // other moved — which is why the rule is re-applied AT MERGE, not when the
   // number is picked.
-  it('pins SCHEMA_BUMP to 89 so concurrent bumps cannot silently collide (#2766, #3015, #3088, #2885)', () => {
-    expect(Number(PARSE_CACHE_VERSION.split('+', 1)[0])).toBe(89);
+  // Moved 89 -> 90 for #2865's decorator-route `handlerName` after #3128
+  // merged and took 89. origin/main is 89; 90 is the next free value and
+  // still unused by other open PRs' parse-cache.ts heads — the same
+  // collision the paragraph above describes, caught this time by re-checking
+  // at merge.
+  it('pins SCHEMA_BUMP to 90 so concurrent bumps cannot silently collide (#2766, #3015, #3088, #2885, #3128, #2865)', () => {
+    expect(Number(PARSE_CACHE_VERSION.split('+', 1)[0])).toBe(90);
     expect(PARSE_CACHE_BUCKET_COUNT).toBe(128);
     for (const taken of [
       59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81,
-      82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88,
+      82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89,
     ]) {
       expect(Number(PARSE_CACHE_VERSION.split('+', 1)[0])).not.toBe(taken);
     }
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/python-decorator-handler-name.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/python-decorator-handler-name.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8a358063f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/python-decorator-handler-name.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+/**
+ * Pins Python's `decoratorRouteHandlerName` provider hook against real
+ * tree-sitter-python trees.
+ *
+ * The hook feeds `ExtractedDecoratorRoute.handlerName`, which the routes phase
+ * turns into `handlerSymbolId` and a definition-level `HANDLES_ROUTE` edge. Two
+ * failure directions matter and both are asserted here:
+ *
+ *   • too little — a plain module function, a method, a stacked-decorator run,
+ *     or an `async def` must all yield the decorated function's name, or every
+ *     Flask/FastAPI handler silently degrades to a file-level edge;
+ *   • too much — a class-attached route decorator must yield nothing. A class
+ *     does not handle a request, and returning its name would resolve
+ *     `handlerSymbolId` to the wrong symbol.
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import Parser from 'tree-sitter';
+import Python from 'tree-sitter-python';
+import { pythonDecoratorRouteHandlerName } from '../../src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/python-decorator-handler.js';
+import type { SyntaxNode } from '../../src/core/ingestion/utils/ast-helpers.js';
+
+const parser = new Parser();
+parser.setLanguage(Python);
+
+/** Every `decorator` node in `src`, in source order. */
+function decorators(src: string): SyntaxNode[] {
+  const found: SyntaxNode[] = [];
+  const walk = (node: SyntaxNode): void => {
+    if (node.type === 'decorator') found.push(node);
+    for (const child of node.children) walk(child);
+  };
+  walk(parser.parse(src).rootNode);
+  return found;
+}
+
+/** Handler names the hook reports for each decorator in `src`. */
+const handlerNames = (src: string): Array<string | undefined> =>
+  decorators(src).map((node) => pythonDecoratorRouteHandlerName(node));
+
+describe('pythonDecoratorRouteHandlerName', () => {
+  it('names the module-level function a route decorator sits on', () => {
+    expect(handlerNames('@router.get("/widgets")\ndef list_widgets(): pass\n')).toEqual([
+      'list_widgets',
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('names a method inside a class', () => {
+    expect(
+      handlerNames('class WidgetView:\n    @router.post("/widgets")\n    def create(self): pass\n'),
+    ).toEqual(['create']);
+  });
+
+  it('names the same function for every decorator in a stacked run', () => {
+    // tree-sitter-python puts all decorators of a run under one
+    // `decorated_definition`, so no ancestor walk is needed to reach the
+    // definition past the sibling decorator.
+    expect(handlerNames('@router.get("/me")\n@requires_auth\ndef whoami(): pass\n')).toEqual([
+      'whoami',
+      'whoami',
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('names an async handler (`async def` is still a function_definition)', () => {
+    expect(handlerNames('@app.get("/health")\nasync def health(): pass\n')).toEqual(['health']);
+  });
+
+  it('returns undefined for a class-attached route decorator', () => {
+    expect(handlerNames('@router.get("/widgets")\nclass WidgetResource: pass\n')).toEqual([
+      undefined,
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('does not climb out of a class body to borrow the enclosing class name', () => {
+    // The decorator's parent here is the class body's `decorated_definition`
+    // holding a class, not a function. An ancestor walk would have found
+    // `Outer`; direct-shape ownership reports nothing.
+    expect(handlerNames('class Outer:\n    @router.get("/x")\n    class Inner: pass\n')).toEqual([
+      undefined,
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('names the real def when a commented-out def precedes it', () => {
+    // Python applies the decorator to the next real definition; the comment is
+    // not a definition, so `real_handler` is the correct answer.
+    expect(
+      handlerNames('@router.get("/x")\n# def old_handler(): pass\ndef real_handler(): pass\n'),
+    ).toEqual(['real_handler']);
+  });
+
+  it('returns undefined for a non-route decorator context with no decorated definition', () => {
+    // A bare decorator with no following definition is an ERROR/partial parse;
+    // the hook must not invent a name from whatever the parent happens to be.
+    expect(handlerNames('@router.get("/x")\n')).toEqual([undefined]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/route-handler-definition-edge.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/route-handler-definition-edge.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a668529cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/route-handler-definition-edge.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+/**
+ * Routes phase: the definition-level `HANDLES_ROUTE` edge and the
+ * `Route.handlerSymbolId` stamp, both gated on the handler symbol EXISTING in
+ * the graph.
+ *
+ * `routeHandlerSymbols` carries `SemanticModel` node ids, which are a
+ * resolution claim rather than proof that the definition node reached
+ * `ctx.graph`. Two directions are pinned here:
+ *
+ *   • resolved — a live `Function` / `Method` node gets BOTH the file-level edge
+ *     (what `http-route-extractor.ts` queries) and the definition-level edge, so
+ *     a HANDLES_ROUTE traversal reaches the handler and not just its file;
+ *   • dangling — an id with no node in the graph falls back to exactly the
+ *     file-level behavior a route with no handler resolution has: file-level
+ *     edge only, no `handlerSymbolId` stamp, and no edge sourced on a node that
+ *     does not exist.
+ */
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import fs from 'fs/promises';
+import os from 'os';
+import path from 'path';
+import type { NodeLabel } from 'gitnexus-shared';
+import { routesPhase } from '../../src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/routes.js';
+import { routeNodeKey } from '../../src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/route-path.js';
+import { DATA_ROUTE_TABLE_SOURCE } from '../../src/core/ingestion/route-extractors/data-route-table.js';
+import type { ParseOutput } from '../../src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/parse.js';
+import { createKnowledgeGraph } from '../../src/core/graph/graph.js';
+import type { KnowledgeGraph } from '../../src/core/graph/types.js';
+import { generateId } from '../../src/lib/utils.js';
+
+const CONTROLLER = 'src/orders/controller.ts';
+const TABLE_FILE = 'src/routes/table.ts';
+const HANDLER_FILE = 'src/handlers/orders.ts';
+const HANDLER_SOURCE = `export function createOrder() {\n  return { id: 1 };\n}\n`;
+
+interface RunOptions {
+  /** Files to materialize in the temp repo, path → contents. */
+  readonly files?: Readonly<Record<string, string>>;
+  /** Handler definition node to seed into the graph before the phase runs. */
+  readonly handlerNode?: { id: string; label: NodeLabel; filePath: string };
+  readonly routeHandlerSymbols: ReadonlyMap<string, string>;
+  readonly extractedRoutes?: readonly unknown[];
+  readonly decoratorRoutes?: readonly unknown[];
+}
+
+async function runRoutesPhase(
+  options: RunOptions,
+): Promise<{ graph: KnowledgeGraph; repoPath: string }> {
+  const repoPath = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'gitnexus-route-handler-edge-'));
+  const files = options.files ?? { [CONTROLLER]: HANDLER_SOURCE };
+  for (const [filePath, contents] of Object.entries(files)) {
+    await fs.mkdir(path.join(repoPath, path.dirname(filePath)), { recursive: true });
+    await fs.writeFile(path.join(repoPath, filePath), contents);
+  }
+
+  const graph = createKnowledgeGraph();
+  if (options.handlerNode) {
+    graph.addNode({
+      id: options.handlerNode.id,
+      label: options.handlerNode.label,
+      properties: {
+        name: 'createOrder',
+        filePath: options.handlerNode.filePath,
+        startLine: 0,
+        endLine: 2,
+      },
+    });
+  }
+
+  const parseOutput = {
+    allPaths: Object.keys(files),
+    allFetchCalls: [],
+    allFetchWrapperDefs: [],
+    allExtractedRoutes: options.extractedRoutes ?? [],
+    allDecoratorRoutes: options.decoratorRoutes ?? [],
+    routeHandlerSymbols: options.routeHandlerSymbols,
+  } as unknown as ParseOutput;
+
+  try {
+    await routesPhase.execute(
+      { repoPath, graph, onProgress: () => {}, pipelineStart: Date.now() },
+      new Map([['parse', { phaseName: 'parse', output: parseOutput, durationMs: 0 }]]),
+    );
+    return { graph, repoPath };
+  } finally {
+    await fs.rm(repoPath, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+}
+
+/** A single framework route: `POST /orders`, declared in `CONTROLLER`. */
+const frameworkRoute = (filePath = CONTROLLER) => ({
+  filePath,
+  httpMethod: 'post',
+  routePath: '/orders',
+  routeName: null,
+  controllerName: null,
+  methodName: null,
+  middleware: [],
+  prefix: null,
+  lineNumber: 1,
+});
+
+const POST_ORDERS = routeNodeKey('POST', '/orders');
+const ROUTE_ID = generateId('Route', POST_ORDERS);
+
+/** `HANDLES_ROUTE` source ids pointing at the route node, de-duplicated. */
+const handlesRouteSources = (graph: KnowledgeGraph, routeNodeId = ROUTE_ID): string[] => [
+  ...new Set(
+    graph.relationships
+      .filter((rel) => rel.type === 'HANDLES_ROUTE' && rel.targetId === routeNodeId)
+      .map((rel) => rel.sourceId),
+  ),
+];
+
+describe('routes phase — definition-level HANDLES_ROUTE', () => {
+  it.each<NodeLabel>(['Function', 'Method'])(
+    'emits both the file-level and the definition-level edge for a live %s handler',
+    async (label) => {
+      const handlerId = `${label}:${CONTROLLER}:createOrder`;
+      const { graph } = await runRoutesPhase({
+        handlerNode: { id: handlerId, label, filePath: CONTROLLER },
+        routeHandlerSymbols: new Map([[POST_ORDERS, handlerId]]),
+        extractedRoutes: [frameworkRoute()],
+      });
+
+      expect(graph.getNode(ROUTE_ID)?.properties.handlerSymbolId).toBe(handlerId);
+      expect(handlesRouteSources(graph).sort()).toEqual(
+        [generateId('File', CONTROLLER), handlerId].sort(),
+      );
+    },
+  );
+
+  it('falls back to file-level attribution when the handler id has no node in the graph', async () => {
+    // Resolution claimed a symbol the graph does not hold. The stamp is the
+    // extractor's fast path and the edge would source on an absent node, so
+    // neither may be emitted.
+    const { graph } = await runRoutesPhase({
+      routeHandlerSymbols: new Map([[POST_ORDERS, `Method:${CONTROLLER}:ghost`]]),
+      extractedRoutes: [frameworkRoute()],
+    });
+
+    const route = graph.getNode(ROUTE_ID);
+    expect(route, 'the route itself must survive a dangling handler id').toBeTruthy();
+    expect(route?.properties).not.toHaveProperty('handlerSymbolId');
+    expect(handlesRouteSources(graph)).toEqual([generateId('File', CONTROLLER)]);
+  });
+
+  it('resolves the data-route-table handler path from the graph, and falls back when it dangles', async () => {
+    const routeKey = routeNodeKey('GET', '/orders');
+    const routeNodeId = generateId('Route', routeKey);
+    const handlerId = `Function:${HANDLER_FILE}:createOrder`;
+    const dataRoute = {
+      filePath: TABLE_FILE,
+      routePath: '/orders',
+      httpMethod: 'GET',
+      decoratorName: 'data-route-table',
+      source: DATA_ROUTE_TABLE_SOURCE,
+      lineNumber: 1,
+      handlerName: 'createOrder',
+    };
+    const files = {
+      [TABLE_FILE]: `export const routes = [{ path: '/orders', method: 'GET', handler: createOrder }];\n`,
+      [HANDLER_FILE]: HANDLER_SOURCE,
+    };
+
+    const resolved = await runRoutesPhase({
+      files,
+      handlerNode: { id: handlerId, label: 'Function', filePath: HANDLER_FILE },
+      routeHandlerSymbols: new Map([[routeKey, handlerId]]),
+      decoratorRoutes: [dataRoute],
+    });
+    const resolvedRoute = resolved.graph.getNode(routeNodeId);
+    expect(resolvedRoute?.properties.filePath).toBe(HANDLER_FILE);
+    expect(resolvedRoute?.properties.handlerSymbolId).toBe(handlerId);
+    expect(handlesRouteSources(resolved.graph, routeNodeId).sort()).toEqual(
+      [generateId('File', HANDLER_FILE), handlerId].sort(),
+    );
+
+    const dangling = await runRoutesPhase({
+      files,
+      routeHandlerSymbols: new Map([[routeKey, handlerId]]),
+      decoratorRoutes: [dataRoute],
+    });
+    const danglingRoute = dangling.graph.getNode(routeNodeId);
+    // No handler node to read a path from, so the declaring file stands in.
+    expect(danglingRoute?.properties.filePath).toBe(TABLE_FILE);
+    expect(danglingRoute?.properties).not.toHaveProperty('handlerSymbolId');
+    expect(handlesRouteSources(dangling.graph, routeNodeId)).toEqual([
+      generateId('File', TABLE_FILE),
+    ]);
+  });
+});