diff --git a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/rest/RestRouteInventoryTest.java b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/rest/RestRouteInventoryTest.java
index 2b2f552..dd1ef7a 100644
--- a/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/rest/RestRouteInventoryTest.java
+++ b/fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/rest/RestRouteInventoryTest.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.DisplayName;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
@@ -68,6 +69,32 @@ class RestRouteInventoryTest {
             "GET /tasks/{ticket}"
     );
 
+    private static final Pattern ROUTE_CALL =
+            Pattern.compile("app\\.(get|post|delete|put|patch)\\(\\s*\"([^\"]+)\"");
+
+    /**
+     * Drop whole-line comments before scraping. Without this the scrape reads commented-out code as
+     * live: a registration disabled with {@code //} still matched, so the route stayed in the
+     * inventory while the server no longer served it — a silent false PASS, measured on 2026-09-03
+     * by commenting out {@code app.get("/tasks/{ticket}", ...)} and watching this test stay green.
+     * Deleting the same line was caught correctly, so only the commented-out shape was blind.
+     *
+     * <p>Only lines whose first non-blank characters are {@code //}, {@code *} or {@code /*} are
+     * dropped — deliberately NOT every {@code //} anywhere on a line, because that would also cut a
+     * string literal containing {@code //} (a URL) and could silently delete a real registration
+     * sharing that line. The remaining gap is a trailing comment on the same line as real code; no
+     * registration in this file has that shape, and the vacuity test below would catch a scrape that
+     * lost registrations wholesale.
+     */
+    private static String withoutCommentLines(String source) {
+        return source.lines()
+                .filter(line -> {
+                    String t = line.stripLeading();
+                    return !(t.startsWith("//") || t.startsWith("*") || t.startsWith("/*"));
+                })
+                .collect(Collectors.joining("\n"));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Every {@code app.<verb>("<path>")} call in {@link FleetApp}'s source, as {@code "VERB path"}.
      * This matches inside an {@code if (...) { ... }} block just as well as a top-level statement —
@@ -75,8 +102,7 @@ class RestRouteInventoryTest {
      * catches {@code GET /metrics} (registered conditionally on {@code metrics != null}).
      */
     private static Set<String> routesTheServerRegisters() throws Exception {
-        String source = Files.readString(REST_SOURCE);
-        Matcher m = Pattern.compile("app\\.(get|post|delete|put|patch)\\(\\s*\"([^\"]+)\"").matcher(source);
+        Matcher m = ROUTE_CALL.matcher(withoutCommentLines(Files.readString(REST_SOURCE)));
         Set<String> found = new LinkedHashSet<>();
         while (m.find()) {
             found.add(m.group(1).toUpperCase(Locale.ROOT) + " " + m.group(2));