Four defects found while exercising cross-service route linking end to end:
1. index_repository mode=cross-repo-intelligence parsed the name override and then ignored it, deriving the project from repo_path, so it matched (or auto-created) a different project than the one indexed under --name. handle_cross_repo_mode now resolves name via cbm_project_name_from_path + cbm_validate_project_name exactly like indexing, and the derived-name path no longer leaks the cbm_project_name_from_path allocation.
2. cbm_cross_repo_match opened project stores with create-on-open, so a never-indexed source or target name silently materialized an empty <name>.db and reported success with zero matches (observed as a database literally named ["*"].db). Missing sources set source_missing and run nothing; missing named targets are skipped and counted in targets_missing; neither creates a database. The MCP response surfaces targets_missing and returns an actionable error for a missing source.
3. cbm_cli_build_args_json wrapped a JSON-array-shaped value ('["*"]') as one literal array element; array-typed flags now parse all-string JSON array values into elements while plain values and repeated flags accumulate as before.
4. A caller using a full URL literal (requests.get("http://users-svc:5000/api/users")) minted a Route named by the raw URL that never merged with the registration's canonical /api/users Route, so caller->Route and handler->Route stayed disconnected. Route identity and display names now strip scheme/authority through cbm_pipeline_route_url_path (shared with pass_cross_repo, replacing its duplicate cr_url_path), and phase 2a attaches handlers to already-minted method-variant routes across ANY (GET registration covers the ANY variant; ANY registration covers each concrete verb) with RN_SOURCE_METHOD_VARIANT ownership for incremental cleanup.
Verification: new tests cli_build_args_json_json_array_value, tool_cross_repo_mode_honors_name_override, pipeline_full_url_call_joins_canonical_route, and repro_issue523_missing_projects_not_created each failed before their fix and pass after; suites under ASan/UBSan: cli 236, mcp 272, pipeline 385, parallel 36, edge_types_probe 57, route_canon 15, httplink 39, incremental 164, repro_issue523 6/6; full make -f Makefile.cbm test exits 0.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Hundt <ATHundt@gmail.com>
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