@@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ The install script placed beside the binary is **reported, not deleted**: uninst
 - `DEPLOYS`: what puts manifests, kustomizations or charts on a cluster, to what it puts there: a Flux Kustomization or Argo Application to the kustomizations / manifests / chart of its path, a Flux HelmRelease to its chart (`spec.chart` or `chartRef` → OCIRepository), a shell command or Make recipe (`kubectl apply -f/-k`, `kustomize build | kubectl apply`, `helm install/upgrade/template`), a Go installer loading a chart with the Helm SDK, a Terraform `helm_release`, a Terraform `kubernetes_*` resource the object it declares (a `Resource` like a manifest's, `ecosystem: terraform`, when its name is a literal), a kustomization inflating a chart (`helmCharts`; its values file an `IMPORTS`). A chart outside the repository is an external `Chart`, keyed by its publisher when its repository URL is stated (`__chart__<repository>/<name>`, the same node in every project, the URL in `repository`), else one per project and name; the edge says `via` (`flux`, `argo`, `helmrelease`, `kubectl`, `kustomize`, `helm`, `helm-sdk`, `terraform`, `helmcharts`, ...)
 - `DEPENDS_ON`: a Helm chart to the charts it declares (the local chart for a resolvable `file://` repository, otherwise an external `Chart`; the edge keeps `repository`), and a `go.mod` / `requirements.txt` file to an external `Package`; a Dockerfile to the `Image`s it builds on (`via: from`, `copy-from`); an `Image` to the Dockerfile it is built from (`via: build`; `tool`: `skaffold`, `compose`, `docker-build` for `docker` / `podman` / `nerdctl` / `buildah` build commands in scripts, Make and CI); a compose service to the services its `depends_on` / `links` name
 - `CONFIGURES`: code reading an environment variable to the shared `EnvVar` of that name (`strategy: env_access`); a Kubernetes container, compose service or Dockerfile (`ENV` of the image) setting one to that container's own `EnvVar` (`strategy: env_set`, with `source`: `value`, `configMapKeyRef`, `secretKeyRef`, `fieldRef`, ..., `compose`, `dockerfile`; values are never stored); and that container's `EnvVar` to the code reading the name inside the files its image is built from (`strategy: env_read`, with `dockerfile`): the image's files are the sources its Dockerfile's `COPY` / `ADD` put into it, less the context's `.dockerignore`
+- `CONFIGURES` with `strategy: key_symbol`: a code symbol to the config key it names (`config_key`). A YAML, JSON, HCL (Terraform, OpenTofu, tfvars), TOML or INI key links by exact name (`maxRetryCount` = `max_retry_count`) and only to code inside the config file's component: its directory, or the one around a `config/`, `configs/`, `conf/`, `settings/` or `etc/` directory. A `.env` or `.properties` key also links by substring (confidence 0.75)
 - `OVERRIDE` with `via: patch`: a Kustomize patch to each object of its kustomization's build it changes (child → base): a patch file's documents to the object of the same kind and name; an inline patch (from the kustomization) or a JSON6902 operation file to what its `target` selects (group, version, kind, name, namespace, label selector); a component's in the build of each kustomization including it. The edge keeps `kustomization`, `patch` and `line`; a patch file is an `IMPORTS` (`local_name: patches`) of its kustomization, never a member of the build
 - `OVERRIDE` with `via: namePrefix` / `nameSuffix`: an object a kustomization renames, from its variant: a `Resource` named with the deployed name (`capi-` + `controller-manager`; the prefixes of nested kustomizations outermost first, suffixes innermost first) in the namespace that build gives it, `ecosystem: kustomize`, which the kustomization's file `DEFINES`. CRDs, Namespaces and API services keep their names, as kustomize does. The edge keeps `kustomization` and `line`
 - `USAGE` with `via: terraform`: a Terraform / OpenTofu reference (`var.X`, `local.X`, `module.X`, `data.T.N`, `T.N`) from the top-level block holding it to the block of its module (the `.tf` / `.tofu` files of its directory) that declares it (a `locals` entry: its `locals` block); an entry of the block's `depends_on` list is a `DEPENDS_ON` instead. The edge keeps `ref` (`var`, `local`, `module`, `data`, `resource`) and `line`; a name only mentioned in string text is no reference. A module call with a local source (`module "net" { source = "./modules/net" }`) `IMPORTS` (`local_name`: the module's name) the `Folder` of that directory (the root directory: the `Project`), and `module.net.id` (also `module.net[0].id`, `module.net[*].id`) `USAGE`s (`ref: output`) the `output "id"` there, beside `module.net`
 
@@ -116,15 +116,18 @@ static const cbm_gbuf_node_t **canonical_node_copy(const cbm_gbuf_node_t *const
     return sorted;
 }
 
-/* Infrastructure files: YAML, JSON and HCL (Terraform, OpenTofu, tfvars). A
- * key_symbol pair with either side in one links by exact name and only inside
- * the config file's component (user decision 2026-10-10): in 17 infra
- * repositories 4 of 40 sampled key_symbol edges were right, all of them exact
- * and within one directory tree; the rest were substring and cross-component
- * coincidences. Other config formats keep exact + substring matching. */
+/* Files whose key_symbol pairs link by exact name and only inside the config
+ * file's component: infrastructure files -- YAML, JSON, HCL (Terraform,
+ * OpenTofu, tfvars) -- (user decision 2026-10-10: in 17 infra repositories 4
+ * of 40 sampled key_symbol edges were right, all of them exact and within one
+ * directory tree; the rest were substring and cross-component coincidences),
+ * and TOML and INI files (user decision 2026-10-14: all 72 of their substring
+ * or cross-component edges in those repositories were coincidences, such as
+ * `.gitleaks.toml useDefault` <- TestConfig_UseDefault). Other config formats
+ * (.env, .properties) keep exact + substring matching. */
 static bool cl_is_infra_path(const char *path) {
-    static const char *const exts[] = {".yaml", ".yml",  ".json",   ".tf",
-                                       ".hcl",  ".tofu", ".tfvars", NULL};
+    static const char *const exts[] = {".yaml",   ".yml",  ".json", ".tf",  ".hcl",  ".tofu",
+                                       ".tfvars", ".toml", ".ini",  ".cfg", ".conf", NULL};
     const char *dot = path ? strrchr(path, '.') : NULL;
     const char *slash = path ? strrchr(path, '/') : NULL;
     if (!dot || (slash && dot < slash)) {
 
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ static void rm_rf(const char *path) {
 /* ── Strategy 1: Config Key → Code Symbol ───────────────────────── */
 
 /* Go: TestConfigKeySymbol_ExactMatch
- * config.toml has max_connections, main.go has getMaxConnections() */
+ * config.toml has max_connections, main.go has maxConnections(). (A TOML key
+ * links by exact name only, see configlink_key_symbol_toml_ini_exact_scoped.) */
 TEST(configlink_key_symbol_exact_match) {
     cbm_gbuf_t *gb = cbm_gbuf_new("test", "/tmp/test");
 
@@ -94,9 +95,9 @@ TEST(configlink_key_symbol_exact_match) {
                                           "test.config.max_connections", "config.toml", 0, 0, NULL);
     ASSERT_GT(cfg_id, 0);
 
-    /* Code Function node: getMaxConnections from main.go */
-    int64_t func_id = cbm_gbuf_upsert_node(gb, "Function", "getMaxConnections",
-                                           "test.main.getMaxConnections", "main.go", 0, 0, NULL);
+    /* Code Function node: maxConnections from main.go */
+    int64_t func_id = cbm_gbuf_upsert_node(gb, "Function", "maxConnections",
+                                           "test.main.maxConnections", "main.go", 0, 0, NULL);
     ASSERT_GT(func_id, 0);
 
     /* Run configlink */
@@ -113,12 +114,14 @@ TEST(configlink_key_symbol_exact_match) {
 }
 
 /* Go: TestConfigKeySymbol_SubstringMatch
- * config.toml has request_timeout, main.go has getRequestTimeoutSeconds() */
+ * app.properties has request_timeout, main.go has getRequestTimeoutSeconds().
+ * (Formats outside the exact + component rule -- .properties, .env -- keep
+ * substring matching.) */
 TEST(configlink_key_symbol_substring_match) {
     cbm_gbuf_t *gb = cbm_gbuf_new("test", "/tmp/test");
 
-    cbm_gbuf_upsert_node(gb, "Variable", "request_timeout", "test.config.request_timeout",
-                         "config.toml", 0, 0, NULL);
+    cbm_gbuf_upsert_node(gb, "Variable", "request_timeout", "test.app.request_timeout",
+                         "app.properties", 0, 0, NULL);
 
     cbm_gbuf_upsert_node(gb, "Function", "getRequestTimeoutSeconds",
                          "test.main.getRequestTimeoutSeconds", "main.go", 0, 0, NULL);
@@ -281,6 +284,48 @@ TEST(configlink_key_symbol_terraform_variable) {
     PASS();
 }
 
+/* TOML and INI keys (.toml, .ini, .cfg, .conf) link like infrastructure keys:
+ * by exact name and only inside the config file's component. In 17 infra
+ * repositories all 72 TOML/INI key_symbol edges were substring or
+ * cross-component coincidences (`.gitleaks.toml useDefault` <-
+ * TestConfig_UseDefault, `grafana.ini admin_user` <- GenAdminUser). Each
+ * format's key below reaches only svc-a's exact `requestTimeout`: not svc-a's
+ * substring `getRequestTimeoutSeconds`, not svc-b's exact `requestTimeout`. */
+TEST(configlink_key_symbol_toml_ini_exact_scoped) {
+    static const char *const files[] = {"svc-a/config.toml", "svc-a/settings.ini",
+                                        "svc-a/setup.cfg", "svc-a/app.conf"};
+    enum { FILES = 4 };
+    cbm_gbuf_t *gb = cbm_gbuf_new("test", "/tmp/test");
+    int64_t cfg[FILES];
+    for (int i = 0; i < FILES; i++) {
+        char qn[CBM_SZ_128];
+        snprintf(qn, sizeof(qn), "test.cfg%d.request_timeout", i);
+        cfg[i] = cbm_gbuf_upsert_node(gb, "Variable", "request_timeout", qn, files[i], 0, 0, NULL);
+    }
+    int64_t inside = cbm_gbuf_upsert_node(gb, "Function", "requestTimeout",
+                                          "test.svc_a.main.requestTimeout", "svc-a/main.go", 0, 0,
+                                          NULL);
+    cbm_gbuf_upsert_node(gb, "Function", "getRequestTimeoutSeconds",
+                         "test.svc_a.client.getRequestTimeoutSeconds", "svc-a/client.go", 0, 0,
+                         NULL);
+    cbm_gbuf_upsert_node(gb, "Function", "requestTimeout", "test.svc_b.main.requestTimeout",
+                         "svc-b/main.go", 0, 0, NULL);
+    run_configlink(gb, "test", NULL);
+    const cbm_gbuf_edge_t **edges = NULL;
+    int count = 0;
+    cbm_gbuf_find_edges_by_type(gb, "CONFIGURES", &edges, &count);
+    ASSERT_EQ(count, FILES);
+    for (int i = 0; i < FILES; i++) {
+        bool found = false;
+        for (int e = 0; e < count; e++) {
+            found = found || (edges[e]->source_id == inside && edges[e]->target_id == cfg[i]);
+        }
+        ASSERT_TRUE(found);
+    }
+    cbm_gbuf_free(gb);
+    PASS();
+}
+
 /* No count of config keys decides what links: the collector stopped at 4,096. */
 TEST(configlink_key_symbol_no_config_cap) {
     enum { KEYS = 4200 };
@@ -469,9 +514,11 @@ enum { CL_DET_CANDIDATES = 9000 }; /* > the 8192 code-entry cap */
 static cbm_gbuf_t *build_oversized_corpus(bool reverse) {
     cbm_gbuf_t *gb = cbm_gbuf_new("test", "/tmp/test");
 
-    /* One config key every candidate can match on: "max_connections". */
-    cbm_gbuf_upsert_node(gb, "Variable", "max_connections", "test.config.max_connections",
-                         "config.toml", 0, 0, NULL);
+    /* One config key every candidate can match on by substring:
+     * "max_connections", in a format that keeps substring matching (TOML and
+     * INI keys link by exact name only). */
+    cbm_gbuf_upsert_node(gb, "Variable", "max_connections", "test.app.max_connections",
+                         "app.properties", 0, 0, NULL);
 
     for (int k = 0; k < CL_DET_CANDIDATES; k++) {
         int i = reverse ? (CL_DET_CANDIDATES - 1 - k) : k;
@@ -529,6 +576,7 @@ SUITE(configlink) {
     RUN_TEST(configlink_key_symbol_config_dir_component);
     RUN_TEST(configlink_key_symbol_no_config_cap);
     RUN_TEST(configlink_key_symbol_terraform_variable);
+    RUN_TEST(configlink_key_symbol_toml_ini_exact_scoped);
 
     /* Strategy 2: Dependency → Import */
     RUN_TEST(configlink_dep_import_package_json);