diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1815c4150..b8aa0c397 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ and adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 #### Symbols, tests and the viewer
 
+- **Fuzzy matching no longer lands on a closure it cannot reach.** A function nested inside another function is only callable from inside its container, and exact-name matching already declined such candidates; the fuzzy fallback did not, so a builtin method call (`res.text()`, `items.push()`) whose only same-named project symbol was some file's closure resolved onto that closure. The fallback now checks that the one candidate it would commit to is reachable, and declines otherwise — it does not filter the candidate list first, which would turn a crowd of same-named definitions into a single "unique" survivor and hand it every call of that name. On vite that removes the 12 edges onto nested functions and adds none. Re-index after upgrading. Thanks @bompus. (#1708, #1709)
+
 - **Files under an `e2e/` directory count as tests.** Their calls no longer appear as production callers in Steps, dead-code and test badges.
 
 - **Production code under a `samples` or `examples` package path is no longer treated as test code.** A Kotlin or Java project whose package path runs through `com/google/samples/…` (Now in Android, for one) had nearly every file counted as a fixture, so the Map opened on `build-logic`, the entry points hid the app, and dead-code and test badges were wrong. Only the project layout above a `src/` folder decides now; the package path below it never does.
diff --git a/__tests__/fuzzy-lexical-reach.test.ts b/__tests__/fuzzy-lexical-reach.test.ts
index 26c086558..964c348e4 100644
--- a/__tests__/fuzzy-lexical-reach.test.ts
+++ b/__tests__/fuzzy-lexical-reach.test.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import * as os from 'os';
 import { CodeGraph } from '../src';
+import { matchFuzzy } from '../src/resolution/name-matcher';
+import type { Node } from '../src/types';
+import type { ResolutionContext, UnresolvedRef } from '../src/resolution/types';
 
 describe('fuzzy matching respects lexical reachability of nested functions', () => {
   let tempDir: string;
@@ -71,3 +74,71 @@ describe('fuzzy matching respects lexical reachability of nested functions', ()
     expect(inside.map((e) => e.target)).toContain(closure!.id);
   });
 });
+
+/**
+ * The reachability check must sit on the one candidate matchFuzzy would
+ * commit to, never on the candidate set. Filtering a crowd of same-named
+ * definitions down to the reachable ones leaves a single survivor, and the
+ * strategy then hands it every call of that name: vite has a dozen `resolve`
+ * definitions, most nested, and one reachable `resolve` method inherited 59
+ * `import { resolve } from 'node:path'` calls that way (#1709). Driven
+ * directly, so the shape is pinned regardless of what the earlier strategies
+ * make of a given fixture.
+ */
+describe('fuzzy reachability rejects a unique guess but never manufactures one', () => {
+  const node = (partial: Partial<Node> & Pick<Node, 'id' | 'kind' | 'name' | 'filePath'>): Node => ({
+    qualifiedName: partial.name,
+    language: 'typescript',
+    startLine: 1,
+    endLine: 1,
+    startColumn: 0,
+    endColumn: 0,
+    updatedAt: 0,
+    ...partial,
+  });
+  // build.ts:  function build() { const resolve = …; function resolve() {} }
+  const container = node({ id: 'f:build', kind: 'function', name: 'build', filePath: 'build.ts', startLine: 1, endLine: 40 });
+  const closure = node({ id: 'f:build.resolve', kind: 'function', name: 'resolve', qualifiedName: 'build::resolve', filePath: 'build.ts', startLine: 10, endLine: 12 });
+  // pluginContainer.ts:  class PluginContainer { resolve() {} }
+  const method = node({ id: 'm:resolve', kind: 'method', name: 'resolve', qualifiedName: 'PluginContainer::resolve', filePath: 'pluginContainer.ts', startLine: 5, endLine: 9 });
+  const contextWith = (nodes: Node[]): ResolutionContext =>
+    ({
+      getNodesInFile: () => [],
+      getNodesByName: (name: string) => nodes.filter((n) => n.name === name),
+      getNodesByLowerName: (name: string) => nodes.filter((n) => n.name.toLowerCase() === name),
+      getNodesByQualifiedName: (qn: string) => [container].filter((n) => n.qualifiedName === qn),
+      getNodesByKind: () => [],
+      fileExists: () => false,
+      readFile: () => null,
+      getFileLines: () => [],
+      getProjectRoot: () => '',
+      getAllFiles: () => [],
+      getImportMappings: () => [],
+    }) as unknown as ResolutionContext;
+  const callFrom = (filePath: string, line: number): UnresolvedRef => ({
+    fromNodeId: 'f:caller',
+    referenceName: 'resolve',
+    referenceKind: 'calls',
+    line,
+    column: 2,
+    filePath,
+    language: 'typescript',
+  });
+
+  it('declines the sole candidate when it is a closure the call cannot reach', () => {
+    expect(matchFuzzy(callFrom('vite.config.js', 3), contextWith([closure]))).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('still resolves the sole candidate from inside its container', () => {
+    expect(matchFuzzy(callFrom('build.ts', 20), contextWith([closure]))?.targetNodeId).toBe('f:build.resolve');
+  });
+
+  it('does not let the unreachable closure drop out and leave the method as a "unique" match', () => {
+    // Two same-named callables: ambiguous, exactly as before the check existed.
+    expect(matchFuzzy(callFrom('vite.config.js', 3), contextWith([closure, method]))).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('resolves a lone reachable method as before', () => {
+    expect(matchFuzzy(callFrom('vite.config.js', 3), contextWith([method]))?.targetNodeId).toBe('m:resolve');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/resolution/name-matcher.ts b/src/resolution/name-matcher.ts
index c74d8f272..11a5a3d32 100644
--- a/src/resolution/name-matcher.ts
+++ b/src/resolution/name-matcher.ts
@@ -2418,7 +2418,16 @@ export function matchFuzzy(
   const sameLanguageCandidates = callableCandidates.filter(n => n.language === ref.language);
   const finalCandidates = sameLanguageCandidates.length > 0 ? sameLanguageCandidates : callableCandidates;
 
-  if (finalCandidates.length === 1) {
+  // A function nested inside another function is only callable from inside
+  // its container (#1230), so a builtin method call (`res.text()`) whose only
+  // same-named project symbol is some file's closure must decline (#1708).
+  // The check sits on the ONE candidate this strategy would commit to, not on
+  // the candidate set: filtering the unreachable ones out of a crowd would
+  // leave a single survivor and hand it every call of that name — on vite,
+  // `import { resolve } from 'node:path'` in a dozen playground configs onto
+  // the one reachable `resolve` method (#1709). Reachability may reject a
+  // unique guess; it must never manufacture one.
+  if (finalCandidates.length === 1 && isLexicallyReachable(finalCandidates[0]!, ref, context)) {
     const isCrossLanguage = finalCandidates[0]!.language !== ref.language;
     return {
       original: ref,