@@ -1630,7 +1630,8 @@ describe('#9084 — the rest-server.ts transport tripwire keys off mechanics', (
     // [#23050 slice 6] Length 6 → 7 (`security-routes.ts`), still 0 over it.
     // [#23050 slice 7] Length 7 → 8 (`discovery-routes.ts`), still 0 over it.
     // [#23050 slice 8] Length 8 → 9 (`email-routes.ts`), still 0 over it.
-    expect(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES).toHaveLength(9);
+    // [#23050 slice 9] Length 9 → 10 (`search-routes.ts`), still 0 over it.
+    expect(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES).toHaveLength(10);
     expect(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_PATHS[0]).toBe(REST_SERVER);
     const listed = REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_PATHS.map((file) => readFileSync(join(REPO_ROOT, file), 'utf8'));
     for (const probe of [MECHANICS, ROUTES]) {
 
@@ -520,11 +520,12 @@ export const PROBE_FILE_CENSUS: readonly ProbeFileReading[] = [
       'terminator spelling), PLUS `registerPerItemRoute(` call sites; counted over this file AND every ' +
       'module on the registrar list (`packages/rest/src/rest-server-registrar-files.ts`) — ' +
       '`data-action-routes.ts`, `batch-routes.ts`, `approvals-routes.ts`, `sharing-routes.ts`, ' +
-      '`analytics-routes.ts`, `security-routes.ts`, `discovery-routes.ts` and `email-routes.ts`, the modules ' +
-      'the bodies of `registerDataActionEndpoints`, `registerBatchEndpoints`, `registerApprovalsEndpoints`, ' +
-      '`registerSharingEndpoints`, `registerSharingRuleEndpoints`, `registerAnalyticsEndpoints`, ' +
-      '`registerSecurityExplainEndpoints`, `registerSecurityEndpoints`, `registerDiscoveryEndpoints`, ' +
-      '`registerOpenApiEndpoints` and `registerEmailEndpoints` moved to; ' +
+      '`analytics-routes.ts`, `security-routes.ts`, `discovery-routes.ts`, `email-routes.ts` and ' +
+      '`search-routes.ts`, the modules the bodies of `registerDataActionEndpoints`, `registerBatchEndpoints`, ' +
+      '`registerApprovalsEndpoints`, `registerSharingEndpoints`, `registerSharingRuleEndpoints`, ' +
+      '`registerAnalyticsEndpoints`, `registerSecurityExplainEndpoints`, `registerSecurityEndpoints`, ' +
+      '`registerDiscoveryEndpoints`, `registerOpenApiEndpoints`, `registerEmailEndpoints` and ' +
+      '`registerSearchEndpoints` moved to; ' +
       'reachable = those inside registerMetadataEndpoints',
     // [#15542 / #15854] ⭐ THE POPULATION RULE LEARNED A SECOND SPELLING, and
     // the numbers it produces did NOT move: 80 / 19 / 61, exactly as before.
@@ -745,10 +746,22 @@ export const PROBE_FILE_CENSUS: readonly ProbeFileReading[] = [
     // new occurrences are this slice's seam, the same two spellings once (the
     // host literal's forwarder, two; the host interface's member, two). No call
     // site was added.
+    // [#23050 slice 9] 70 / 19 / 51 UNCHANGED, the same measurement again:
+    // `registerSearchEndpoints`' body (one registration site, `GET
+    // {base}/search`, outside `registerMetadataEndpoints`, so in the blind spot)
+    // moved to `search-routes.ts`, which joins the list (length 9 -> 10) with
+    // its own control. `this.routeManager.register(` stays 63 over the ten
+    // files (21 here + 9 + 5 + 7 + 8 + 1 + 6 + 4 + 1 + 1),
+    // `private register*Endpoints(` stays 16 (the registrar is still declared
+    // here), and `enforceAuth` 100 -> 104 is RE-ANCHORED, not relaxed: the one
+    // call site moved with its route and is counted in both readings; the four
+    // new occurrences are this slice's seam, the same two spellings once (the
+    // host literal's forwarder, two; the host interface's member, two). No call
+    // site was added.
     controls: {
       'private register*Endpoints(': 16,
       'this.routeManager.register(': 63,
-      'registrar list length': 9,
+      'registrar list length': 10,
       'data-action-routes.ts: this.routeManager.register(': 9,
       'batch-routes.ts: this.routeManager.register(': 5,
       'approvals-routes.ts: this.routeManager.register(': 7,
@@ -757,14 +770,15 @@ export const PROBE_FILE_CENSUS: readonly ProbeFileReading[] = [
       'security-routes.ts: this.routeManager.register(': 6,
       'discovery-routes.ts: this.routeManager.register(': 4,
       'email-routes.ts: this.routeManager.register(': 1,
+      'search-routes.ts: this.routeManager.register(': 1,
       // Both halves of the new rule carry their own control, so neither can go
       // silently to zero: a helper deleted and its routes inlined back would
       // still read population 80, and only these two controls would notice the
       // shape moved and force this provenance to be re-read.
       'registerPerItemRoute(': 8,
       'const registerPerItemRoute =': 1,
       'forwarder slice: this.routeManager.register(': 1,
-      enforceAuth: 100,
+      enforceAuth: 104,
     },
     note:
       'The single non-tripwire probe names ONE registrar of 16. The other 15 can never mint a key: ' +
 
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ const SOURCE = readFileSync(resolve(HERE, 'rest-server.ts'), 'utf8');
  *
  * [#23050 slice 8] …and `registerEmailEndpoints`' body to `email-routes.ts`,
  * with its one.
+ *
+ * [#23050 slice 9] …and `registerSearchEndpoints`' body to `search-routes.ts`,
+ * with its one.
  */
 const SITE_FILES = REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES;
 const SOURCES = new Map<string, string>(SITE_FILES.map((file) => [
@@ -119,12 +122,13 @@ const siteKey = (file: string, line: number) => `${file}:${line}`;
  * `registerApprovalsEndpoints`, `registerSharingEndpoints`,
  * `registerSharingRuleEndpoints`, `registerAnalyticsEndpoints`,
  * `registerSecurityExplainEndpoints`, `registerSecurityEndpoints`,
- * `registerOpenApiEndpoints`, `registerEmailEndpoints`) hands its moved body
- * forwards each member to the server with `(...a) => this.<member>(...a)`, so
- * a moved site's stack shows that forwarder above the site itself. The site is
- * the first censused frame that is not one. Found by their spelling, and §2
- * pins ONE per moved REGISTRAR whose body reads the seam — one per moved
- * module, plus {@link EXTRA_MOVED_REGISTRARS}, less {@link MOVED_REGISTRARS_READING_NO_EXECCTX}
+ * `registerOpenApiEndpoints`, `registerEmailEndpoints`,
+ * `registerSearchEndpoints`) hands its moved body forwards each member to the
+ * server with `(...a) => this.<member>(...a)`, so a moved site's stack shows
+ * that forwarder above the site itself. The site is the first censused frame
+ * that is not one. Found by their spelling, and §2 pins ONE per moved
+ * REGISTRAR whose body reads the seam — one per moved module, plus
+ * {@link EXTRA_MOVED_REGISTRARS}, less {@link MOVED_REGISTRARS_READING_NO_EXECCTX}
  * — so a respelt forwarder — or a module moved without joining `SITE_FILES` —
  * is a control failure there rather than every moved site silently attributed
  * to it.
@@ -666,9 +670,19 @@ describe('[#13160] §2 the consumer surface, counted from the tree', () => {
         // `rest-server.ts` goes 57 → 58 (one site out, one forwarder's two
         // mentions in). Ten forwarders now: (9 - 1) + 3 - 1, the module carrying
         // one registrar that reads the seam, so neither map gains an entry.
-        expect(SITE_FILES).toHaveLength(9);
+        //
+        // [#23050 slice 9] 62 sites UNCHANGED / 117 → 121 mentions — the same MOVE.
+        // `registerSearchEndpoints`' body left for `search-routes.ts` with its one
+        // BARE site: 23 + 9 + 5 + 7 + 8 + 1 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 62 sites. The four
+        // new mentions are this slice's seam, the two spellings once (its host
+        // literal's forwarder, two; its host interface's member, two):
+        // `rest-server.ts` goes 58 → 59 (one site out, one forwarder's two
+        // mentions in). Eleven forwarders now: (10 - 1) + 3 - 1, the module
+        // carrying one registrar that reads the seam, so neither map gains an
+        // entry.
+        expect(SITE_FILES).toHaveLength(10);
         expect(SITES.length).toBe(62);
-        expect([...SOURCES.values()].reduce((n, text) => n + text.split('resolveExecCtx').length - 1, 0)).toBe(117);
+        expect([...SOURCES.values()].reduce((n, text) => n + text.split('resolveExecCtx').length - 1, 0)).toBe(121);
         const extraMovedRegistrars = Object.values(EXTRA_MOVED_REGISTRARS).reduce((n, k) => n + (k ?? 0), 0);
         expect(extraMovedRegistrars).toBe(3);
         const registrarsReadingNoExecCtx = Object.values(MOVED_REGISTRARS_READING_NO_EXECCTX).reduce((n, k) => n + (k ?? 0), 0);
 
@@ -251,8 +251,10 @@ describe('[#20338] census: every draft switch in rest-server.ts is ledgered', ()
         // length 6 → 7. [#23050 slice 7] Nor do the discovery and OpenAPI bodies
         // (`discovery-routes.ts`): 8 = 6 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 0, length 7 → 8.
         // [#23050 slice 8] Nor does the email send body (`email-routes.ts`):
-        // 8 = 6 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 0, length 8 → 9.
-        expect(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES).toHaveLength(9);
+        // 8 = 6 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 0, length 8 → 9. [#23050 slice 9]
+        // Nor does the global search body (`search-routes.ts`):
+        // 8 = 6 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0, length 9 → 10.
+        expect(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES).toHaveLength(10);
         expect(SOURCE_FILES.map((file) => file.fileName)).toEqual([...REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES]);
         expect(SITES).toHaveLength(8);
     });
 
@@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ interface CensusEntry {
  * [#23050 slice 8] 4 = 1 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0: the email send body
  * (`email-routes.ts`) builds no `query:` literal either — it hands the email
  * service the caller's own JSON body, never a `query:` slot.
+ *
+ * [#23050 slice 9] 4 = 1 + 3 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0: the global search
+ * body (`search-routes.ts`) builds no `query:` literal either — it hands
+ * `searchAll` a `q` / `objects` / `limit` / `perObject` request read off
+ * `req.query`, never a `query:` slot.
  */
 const REGISTRAR_QUERY_SLOT_FLOORS: Readonly<Record<RestServerRegistrarFile, number>> = {
     'rest-server.ts': 1,
@@ -160,6 +165,7 @@ const REGISTRAR_QUERY_SLOT_FLOORS: Readonly<Record<RestServerRegistrarFile, numb
     'security-routes.ts': 0,
     'discovery-routes.ts': 0,
     'email-routes.ts': 0,
+    'search-routes.ts': 0,
 };
 
 const CENSUS: CensusEntry[] = [
@@ -352,7 +358,8 @@ describe('[#16638] §1 CONTROLS on the census instrument itself', () => {
         // [#23050 slice 6] Length 6 → 7, the sum unchanged.
         // [#23050 slice 7] Length 7 → 8, the sum unchanged.
         // [#23050 slice 8] Length 8 → 9, the sum unchanged.
-        expect(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES).toHaveLength(9);
+        // [#23050 slice 9] Length 9 → 10, the sum unchanged.
+        expect(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES).toHaveLength(10);
         expect(Object.keys(REGISTRAR_QUERY_SLOT_FLOORS).sort()).toEqual([...REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES].sort());
         expect(CENSUS.filter(({ file }) => REGISTRAR_SOURCES.has(file)).map(({ file }) => file))
             .toEqual([...REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES]);
 
@@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ describe('rest-server.ts docblock position', () => {
  * analytics modules do: the module header, the host interface's block and the
  * function's. The email send body held no TSDoc block of its own, so
  * `rest-server.ts` keeps every block it had.
+ *
+ * [#23050 slice 9] `search-routes.ts` carries three, as the email module does:
+ * the module header, the host interface's block and the function's. The global
+ * search body held no TSDoc block of its own, so `rest-server.ts` keeps every
+ * block it had (164).
  */
 const MOVED_FILE_FLOORS: Readonly<Record<Exclude<RestServerRegistrarFile, typeof FILE>, number>> = {
     'data-action-routes.ts': 4,
@@ -180,6 +185,7 @@ const MOVED_FILE_FLOORS: Readonly<Record<Exclude<RestServerRegistrarFile, typeof
     'security-routes.ts': 8,
     'discovery-routes.ts': 5,
     'email-routes.ts': 3,
+    'search-routes.ts': 3,
 };
 const MOVED_FILES: ReadonlyArray<{ file: string; minBlocks: number }> = REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES
     .filter((file): file is Exclude<RestServerRegistrarFile, typeof FILE> => file !== FILE)
@@ -212,9 +218,10 @@ describe('[#23050 slice 3] the registrar list this pin reads', () => {
         // [#23050 slice 6] 4 + 3 + 3 + 8 + 3 + 8 = 29 over six, length 6 → 7.
         // [#23050 slice 7] 4 + 3 + 3 + 8 + 3 + 8 + 5 = 34 over seven, length 7 → 8.
         // [#23050 slice 8] 4 + 3 + 3 + 8 + 3 + 8 + 5 + 3 = 37 over eight, length 8 → 9.
-        expect(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES).toHaveLength(9);
+        // [#23050 slice 9] 4 + 3 + 3 + 8 + 3 + 8 + 5 + 3 + 3 = 40 over nine, length 9 → 10.
+        expect(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES).toHaveLength(10);
         expect(Object.keys(MOVED_FILE_FLOORS).sort())
             .toEqual(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES.filter((file) => file !== FILE).sort());
-        expect(MOVED_FILES.reduce((n, { minBlocks }) => n + minBlocks, 0)).toBe(37);
+        expect(MOVED_FILES.reduce((n, { minBlocks }) => n + minBlocks, 0)).toBe(40);
     });
 });
@@ -326,8 +326,11 @@ describe('#20139 census — every numeric coercion in rest-server.ts is classifi
         // the discovery and OpenAPI bodies (`discovery-routes.ts`):
         // 9 = 8 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0, length 7 → 8. [#23050 slice 8] Nor
         // does the email send body (`email-routes.ts`):
-        // 9 = 8 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0, length 8 → 9.
-        expect(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES).toHaveLength(9);
+        // 9 = 8 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0, length 8 → 9. [#23050 slice 9]
+        // Nor does the global search body (`search-routes.ts`): it READS its two
+        // caps through `readDeclaredQueryNumber`, never coerces one:
+        // 9 = 8 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0, length 9 → 10.
+        expect(REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES).toHaveLength(10);
         expect(SOURCES.map(([file]) => file)).toEqual([...REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES]);
         expect(sites).toHaveLength(9);
     });
 
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ export const REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES = [
     'discovery-routes.ts',
     // [#23050 slice 8] `registerEmailEndpoints`' body.
     'email-routes.ts',
+    // [#23050 slice 9] `registerSearchEndpoints`' body.
+    'search-routes.ts',
 ] as const;
 
 /** One file on {@link REST_SERVER_REGISTRAR_FILES}. */
 
@@ -341,6 +341,8 @@ import {
 } from './discovery-routes.js';
 // [#23050 slice 8] The email route's body moved to its own module — see its header.
 import { registerEmailEndpoints, type EmailRouteHost } from './email-routes.js';
+// [#23050 slice 9] The global search route's body moved to its own module — see its header.
+import { registerSearchEndpoints, type SearchRouteHost } from './search-routes.js';
 import { loadExcelJs, type Worksheet } from './xlsx-module.js';
 // [#18386] `?template=true` on the export door: the import template's column
 // rule, request reading and workbook. See the module header.
@@ -8995,71 +8997,17 @@ export class RestServer {
      * GET {basePath}/search?q=acme&objects=lead,account&limit=20&perObject=5
      */
     private registerSearchEndpoints(basePath: string): void {
-        const isScoped = basePath.includes('/environments/:environmentId');
-        this.routeManager.register({
-            method: 'GET',
-            path: `${basePath}/search`,
-            handler: async (req: any, res: any) => {
-                try {
-                    const environmentId = isScoped ? req.params?.environmentId : undefined;
-                    const p = await this.resolveProtocol(environmentId, req);
-                    const context = await this.resolveExecCtx(environmentId, req);
-                    if (this.enforceAuth(req, res, context)) return;
-                    const searchAll = (p as any).searchAll;
-                    if (typeof searchAll !== 'function') {
-                        res.status(501).json({ code: 'NOT_IMPLEMENTED', message: 'Search not supported by this protocol' });
-                        return;
-                    }
-                    // [#6877] `String(['a','b'])` searched for the literal
-                    // term `'a,b'`. `objects` is NOT listed: the next line reads
-                    // its array arm deliberately — a cross-object search over a
-                    // LIST of objects is the whole point of the parameter.
-                    // [#7606] Recognition before arity, same order and same
-                    // envelope as the export route — see `query-allowlist.ts`.
-                    // A dropped `?objects=` is the widening case at its worst:
-                    // the term fans out across every searchable object while the
-                    // caller believes they scoped it to one.
-                    if (refuseUnknownQueryParams(req, res, GLOBAL_SEARCH_PARAMS)) return;
-                    if (refuseRepeatedQueryParams(req, res, ['q', 'query', 'limit', 'perObject'])) return;
-                    const q = String(req.query?.q ?? req.query?.query ?? '');
-                    const objectsParam = req.query?.objects;
-                    const objects = typeof objectsParam === 'string'
-                        ? objectsParam.split(',').map((s: string) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean)
-                        : Array.isArray(objectsParam) ? objectsParam : undefined;
-                    // [#20062] Read, not coerced: `?limit=abc` used to reach
-                    // `searchAll` as `NaN`, and `hits.length >= NaN` is never true,
-                    // so the overall cap was silently gone. No request schema is
-                    // declared for this door, so the reading is "a whole number";
-                    // `searchAll`'s own `[1, 100]` clamp is unchanged, and an empty
-                    // `?limit=` stays absent as the old falsy guard had it.
-                    const limit = readDeclaredQueryNumber(req.query, 'limit',
-                        UNDECLARED_WHOLE_NUMBER_PARAM, { emptyIsAbsent: true });
-                    // [#20139] `perObject`, the same way: `?perObject=abc` reached
-                    // `searchAll` as `NaN`, its `Math.max(1, Math.min(25, NaN))` is
-                    // `NaN`, and the per-object cap was silently gone. Whole number;
-                    // the `[1, 25]` clamp stays `searchAll`'s own, and an empty
-                    // `?perObject=` stays absent as the old falsy guard had it.
-                    const perObject = readDeclaredQueryNumber(req.query, 'perObject',
-                        UNDECLARED_WHOLE_NUMBER_PARAM, { emptyIsAbsent: true });
-                    const result = await searchAll.call(p, {
-                        q,
-                        objects,
-                        limit,
-                        perObject,
-                        ...(context ? { context } : {}),
-                    });
-                    res.json(result);
-                } catch (error: any) {
-                    const mapped = mapDataError(error);
-                    logUnexpectedRouteError(error, mapped);
-                    res.status(mapped.status).json(mapped.body);
-                }
-            },
-            metadata: {
-                summary: 'Global cross-object search',
-                tags: ['search'],
-            },
-        });
+        // [#23050 slice 9] The body moved to `search-routes.ts`. This literal
+        // hands it every member it reads — the list IS its dependency on this
+        // class (see `SearchRouteHost`, and that module's header for why no
+        // member is a getter).
+        const host: SearchRouteHost = {
+            routeManager: this.routeManager,
+            resolveProtocol: (...a) => this.resolveProtocol(...a),
+            resolveExecCtx: (...a) => this.resolveExecCtx(...a),
+            enforceAuth: (...a) => this.enforceAuth(...a),
+        };
+        registerSearchEndpoints.call(host, basePath);
     }
 
     /**