diff --git a/pkg/agent/endpoint/front.go b/pkg/agent/endpoint/front.go
index 088091d50..434e1e2f0 100644
--- a/pkg/agent/endpoint/front.go
+++ b/pkg/agent/endpoint/front.go
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import (
 	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/livekit/livekit-server/pkg/agent/endpoint/router"
 	"github.com/livekit/livekit-server/pkg/agent/endpoint/wire"
 	"github.com/livekit/protocol/livekit"
 	"github.com/livekit/protocol/logger"
@@ -38,6 +39,10 @@ const (
 	// PathPrefix is the public route namespace: /agents/{agent_name}/{deployment}/{path...}
 	PathPrefix = "/agents/"
 
+	// MaxPathLength caps the escaped route path. Matching runs before the
+	// request head is sized, so this is the only bound on it.
+	MaxPathLength = 8 << 10
+
 	// responseHeadTimeout bounds the wait for the worker's response head. Bodies
 	// (SSE, long streams) are unbounded; the head never legitimately takes this
 	// long.
@@ -61,6 +66,7 @@ const (
 var (
 	errNotEndpointPath      = errors.New("endpoint: not an agent endpoint path")
 	errMalformedPath        = errors.New("endpoint: malformed agent endpoint path")
+	errPathTooLong          = errors.New("endpoint: agent endpoint path too long")
 	errRequestHeadTooLarge  = errors.New("endpoint: request head too large")
 	errProtocolSwitch       = errors.New("endpoint: worker switched protocols on an HTTP exchange")
 	errTooManyInformational = errors.New("endpoint: too many informational responses")
@@ -169,6 +175,10 @@ func (f *Front) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 			http.Error(w, "bad request path", http.StatusBadRequest)
 			return
 		}
+		if errors.Is(err, errPathTooLong) {
+			http.Error(w, "uri too long", http.StatusRequestURITooLong)
+			return
+		}
 		http.NotFound(w, r)
 		return
 	}
@@ -204,42 +214,22 @@ func (f *Front) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	// manifest match across the deployment's workers: FULL wins; PARTIAL only
-	// yields 405 when nothing matches fully.
-	matchAll := func(p string) (matched []*Registration, route *Route, partial, denied bool) {
-		for _, reg := range candidates {
-			rt, res := reg.Manifest.Match(p, r.Method)
-			switch res {
-			case MatchFull:
-				if access.Level < AccessGranted && !rt.Public {
-					denied = true
-					continue
-				}
-				if route == nil {
-					route = rt
-				}
-				matched = append(matched, reg)
-			case MatchPartial:
-				partial = true
-			}
-		}
-		return
-	}
-
-	matched, route, partial, denied := matchAll(path)
+	mask := methodMask(r.Method)
+	granted := access.Level >= AccessGranted
+	matched, route, partial, denied := matchDeployment(candidates, path, mask, granted)
 	// no exact match: if only the trailing-slash alternate matches a registered
 	// route, normalize the path to that form and serve it directly (no client
 	// redirect). The exact form is tried first, so a route registered with a
 	// trailing slash is served as-is; this only rewrites a slash mismatch toward
 	// the registered form. When the request must be relayed, the serving node
 	// runs this same normalization, so no redirect is ever emitted.
-	if route == nil && !partial && !denied {
-		if alt, altEsc, ok := slashAlternatePaths(candidates, path, escPath, r.Method); ok {
+	if len(matched) == 0 && !partial && !denied {
+		if alt, altEsc, ok := slashAlternatePaths(candidates, path, escPath, mask); ok {
 			path, escPath = alt, altEsc
-			matched, route, partial, denied = matchAll(path)
+			matched, route, partial, denied = matchDeployment(candidates, path, mask, granted)
 		}
 	}
-	if route == nil && f.params.Fallback != nil {
+	if len(matched) == 0 && f.params.Fallback != nil {
 		// nothing local matched: hand off to the multi-node fallback (relay to a
 		// node holding the deployment) before the local status mapping. The
 		// serving node's relay listener installs no fallback of its own, so a
@@ -255,7 +245,7 @@ func (f *Front) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 			return
 		}
 	}
-	if route == nil {
+	if len(matched) == 0 {
 		switch {
 		case denied:
 			// access does not vary across candidates, so one verdict covers them all
@@ -280,7 +270,7 @@ func (f *Front) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		target:    requestTarget(escPath, r.URL.RawQuery),
 		route:     route,
 		requestID: reqID,
-		granted:   access.Level >= AccessGranted,
+		granted:   granted,
 		pools:     f.pools,
 	}
 	a.body = &countingReader{r: r.Body, n: &bodyConsumed}
@@ -334,21 +324,58 @@ func (f *Front) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	f.writeUnavailable(w, "no worker could serve the request")
 }
 
-// slashAlternatePaths looks for a candidate that serves the trailing-slash
-// alternate of path, returning the decoded and escaped forms to retry.
-func slashAlternatePaths(candidates []*Registration, path, escPath, method string) (string, string, bool) {
+// matchDeployment resolves a path against every candidate worker's manifest.
+// A candidate joins matched when it can serve it; route stays nil when a table
+// was too ambiguous to decide, so matched is the dispatch test.
+func matchDeployment(candidates []*Registration, path string, mask router.Mask, granted bool) (matched []*Registration, route *Route, partial, denied bool) {
 	for _, reg := range candidates {
-		alt, ok := reg.Manifest.slashAlternate(path, method)
-		if !ok {
-			continue
+		rt, res := reg.Manifest.Match(path, mask)
+		switch res {
+		case router.ResultFull:
+			if !granted && !rt.Public {
+				denied = true
+				continue
+			}
+			if route == nil {
+				route = rt
+			}
+			matched = append(matched, reg)
+		case router.ResultPartial:
+			partial = true
+		case router.ResultOverBudget:
+			// no route was decided, so its Public flag is unknown and only a grant
+			// can clear the request
+			if !granted {
+				denied = true
+				continue
+			}
+			matched = append(matched, reg)
 		}
+	}
+	return
+}
+
+// slashAlternatePaths looks for a candidate that serves the trailing-slash
+// alternate of path, returning the decoded and escaped forms to retry. Both
+// forms come out of the same transform.
+func slashAlternatePaths(candidates []*Registration, path, escPath string, mask router.Mask) (string, string, bool) {
+	if path == "/" {
+		return path, escPath, false
+	}
+	var alt, altEsc string
+	if strings.HasSuffix(path, "/") {
 		// %2F decodes to a slash without being a separator, so the alternate
 		// applies only while the slash is literal in escPath too
-		switch {
-		case strings.HasSuffix(alt, "/"):
-			return alt, escPath + "/", true
-		case strings.HasSuffix(escPath, "/"):
-			return alt, strings.TrimSuffix(escPath, "/"), true
+		if !strings.HasSuffix(escPath, "/") {
+			return path, escPath, false
+		}
+		alt, altEsc = strings.TrimSuffix(path, "/"), strings.TrimSuffix(escPath, "/")
+	} else {
+		alt, altEsc = path+"/", escPath+"/"
+	}
+	for _, reg := range candidates {
+		if _, res := reg.Manifest.Match(alt, mask); res == router.ResultFull {
+			return alt, altEsc, true
 		}
 	}
 	return path, escPath, false
@@ -386,6 +413,10 @@ func splitEndpointPath(u *url.URL) (endpointPath, error) {
 	}
 	escPath = "/" + escPath
 
+	if len(escPath) > MaxPathLength {
+		return endpointPath{}, errPathTooLong
+	}
+
 	agentName, err1 := url.PathUnescape(rawAgentName)
 	deployment, err2 := url.PathUnescape(rawDeployment)
 	path, err3 := url.PathUnescape(escPath)
diff --git a/pkg/agent/endpoint/front_test.go b/pkg/agent/endpoint/front_test.go
index 375f86feb..c072fd682 100644
--- a/pkg/agent/endpoint/front_test.go
+++ b/pkg/agent/endpoint/front_test.go
@@ -316,3 +316,58 @@ func TestIsReservedAgentName(t *testing.T) {
 		require.False(t, IsReservedAgentName(n), n)
 	}
 }
+
+// matching runs before anything sizes the request head, so the split is where
+// an over-long path is refused.
+func TestSplitEndpointPathLength(t *testing.T) {
+	long := PathPrefix + "a/d/" + strings.Repeat("x", MaxPathLength)
+	_, err := splitEndpointPath(&url.URL{Path: long, RawPath: long})
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, errPathTooLong)
+
+	f := fallbackFront(t, nil, true)
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusRequestURITooLong, serveFront(f, "/"+strings.Repeat("x", MaxPathLength)).Code)
+
+	ok := PathPrefix + "a/d/" + strings.Repeat("x", MaxPathLength-4)
+	_, err = splitEndpointPath(&url.URL{Path: ok, RawPath: ok})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+}
+
+// budgetFront registers a worker whose routes are ambiguous enough that the
+// matcher gives up deciding.
+func budgetFront(t *testing.T, a Access) *Front {
+	reg := NewRegistry()
+	m, err := ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{
+		{Path: "/{a}{b}{c}{d}x", Methods: []string{"GET"}, Public: true},
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, m.Ambiguous(), 1)
+	reg.Register(NewRegistration(RegistrationParams{
+		WorkerID: "w1", APIKey: "proj", AgentName: "a", Deployment: "d",
+		Manifest: m, Session: &fakeSession{},
+	}))
+	return NewFront(FrontParams{
+		Registry:      reg,
+		ResolveAccess: func(*http.Request, string, string) Access { return a },
+		Logger:        logger.GetLogger(),
+	})
+}
+
+// A table too ambiguous to decide forwards to the worker. No route is decided,
+// so its Public flag is unknown and only a grant clears the request.
+func TestFrontOverBudgetForwardsWithAGrant(t *testing.T) {
+	long := "/" + strings.Repeat("a", 512)
+
+	f := budgetFront(t, Access{APIKey: "proj", Level: AccessGranted})
+	// 503 is dispatch reached: the fake session opens no stream
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusServiceUnavailable, serveFront(f, long).Code)
+
+	f = budgetFront(t, Access{APIKey: "proj", Level: AccessCredentialed})
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusForbidden, serveFront(f, long).Code)
+
+	f = budgetFront(t, Access{APIKey: "proj", Level: AccessNone})
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusUnauthorized, serveFront(f, long).Code)
+
+	// a path the same table decides normally is unaffected
+	f = budgetFront(t, Access{APIKey: "proj", Level: AccessNone})
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusNotFound, serveFront(f, "/ab").Code)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/agent/endpoint/manifest.go b/pkg/agent/endpoint/manifest.go
index fde4e17e4..066755d7d 100644
--- a/pkg/agent/endpoint/manifest.go
+++ b/pkg/agent/endpoint/manifest.go
@@ -18,55 +18,49 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
-	"slices"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/livekit/protocol/livekit"
 
+	"github.com/livekit/livekit-server/pkg/agent/endpoint/router"
 	"github.com/livekit/livekit-server/pkg/agent/endpoint/wire"
 )
 
 const MaxManifestRoutes = 256
 
-// allowedMethods is the set of HTTP methods a route may declare: exactly the
-// verbs FastAPI (starlette) can route. Registration rejects anything else, so a
-// typo ("GTE") or a garbage token can't sit in a manifest silently never
-// matching. Widen this only if the worker side ever routes beyond FastAPI.
-var allowedMethods = map[string]struct{}{
-	http.MethodGet:     {},
-	http.MethodHead:    {},
-	http.MethodPost:    {},
-	http.MethodPut:     {},
-	http.MethodPatch:   {},
-	http.MethodDelete:  {},
-	http.MethodOptions: {},
-	http.MethodTrace:   {},
-}
+// Manifest is a worker's route table, in declaration order.
+type Manifest = router.Router[*Route]
 
 // Route is one validated manifest entry.
 type Route struct {
-	Template *Template
-	Methods  []string // uppercase
+	Template *router.Template
 	Public   bool
 }
 
-// Manifest is a worker's ordered route table.
-type Manifest struct {
-	routes []Route
+// methodMask tags a route with the methods it serves. The set is exactly the
+// verbs FastAPI can route; anything else masks to 0 and matches nothing.
+func methodMask(method string) router.Mask {
+	switch method {
+	case http.MethodGet:
+		return 1 << 0
+	case http.MethodHead:
+		return 1 << 1
+	case http.MethodPost:
+		return 1 << 2
+	case http.MethodPut:
+		return 1 << 3
+	case http.MethodPatch:
+		return 1 << 4
+	case http.MethodDelete:
+		return 1 << 5
+	case http.MethodOptions:
+		return 1 << 6
+	case http.MethodTrace:
+		return 1 << 7
+	}
+	return 0
 }
 
-// MatchResult mirrors starlette's Match enum: a FULL match selects the route, a
-// PARTIAL match (path matched, method didn't) yields 405 only after the whole
-// table has been scanned, so a later route with the right method still wins.
-type MatchResult int
-
-const (
-	MatchNone MatchResult = iota
-	MatchPartial
-	MatchFull
-)
-
-// ParseManifest validates a registration's endpoint list.
 // NegotiateSettings validates a registration's endpoint manifest and negotiates
 // the data-plane protocol version. The data plane is a WebTransport session (no
 // attach token, no fixed connection pool), so the version is all there is to
@@ -91,13 +85,15 @@ func NegotiateSettings(req *livekit.RegisterWorkerRequest) (*livekit.AgentHttp_A
 	return &livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpointSettings{Protocol: negotiated}, nil
 }
 
+// ParseManifest validates a registration's endpoint list and compiles it into
+// a router.
 func ParseManifest(endpoints []*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint) (*Manifest, error) {
 	if len(endpoints) > MaxManifestRoutes {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("manifest exceeds %d routes", MaxManifestRoutes)
 	}
-	m := &Manifest{routes: make([]Route, 0, len(endpoints))}
+	b := router.NewBuilder[*Route]()
 	for _, ep := range endpoints {
-		tpl, err := ParseTemplate(ep.GetPath())
+		tpl, err := router.ParseTemplate(ep.GetPath())
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
@@ -107,65 +103,21 @@ func ParseManifest(endpoints []*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint) (*Manifest, err
 		if len(ep.GetMethods()) == 0 {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("endpoint %q declares no methods", ep.GetPath())
 		}
-		var methods []string
+		var mask router.Mask
 		for _, method := range ep.GetMethods() {
 			u := strings.ToUpper(method)
 			if u != method {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("endpoint %q method %q must be uppercase", ep.GetPath(), method)
 			}
-			if _, ok := allowedMethods[u]; !ok {
+			m := methodMask(u)
+			if m == 0 {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("endpoint %q declares unsupported method %q", ep.GetPath(), method)
 			}
-			methods = append(methods, u)
+			mask |= m
 		}
-		m.routes = append(m.routes, Route{
-			Template: tpl,
-			Methods:  methods,
-			Public:   ep.GetPublic(),
-		})
-	}
-	return m, nil
-}
-
-// Match resolves a request path+method against the table: a FULL match on both,
-// else PARTIAL if the path matched but no route had the method (405).
-func (m *Manifest) Match(path, method string) (*Route, MatchResult) {
-	partial := false
-	for i := range m.routes {
-		r := &m.routes[i]
-		if !r.Template.Match(path) {
-			continue
+		if err := b.Add(tpl, mask, &Route{Template: tpl, Public: ep.GetPublic()}); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
 		}
-		if slices.Contains(r.Methods, method) {
-			return r, MatchFull
-		}
-		partial = true
 	}
-	if partial {
-		return nil, MatchPartial
-	}
-	return nil, MatchNone
-}
-
-// slashAlternate returns the trailing-slash-normalized form of path when only
-// that alternate form fully matches a registered route. The front tries the
-// exact form first and uses this to rewrite a slash-mismatched request to the
-// registered form and serve it directly, rather than redirecting the client
-// (webhook clients often don't follow redirects, and a redirect from the final
-// routing hop would pay the whole routing path twice). A route registered with
-// a trailing slash is matched exactly and left untouched.
-func (m *Manifest) slashAlternate(path, method string) (string, bool) {
-	if path == "/" {
-		return "", false
-	}
-	var alt string
-	if strings.HasSuffix(path, "/") {
-		alt = strings.TrimSuffix(path, "/")
-	} else {
-		alt = path + "/"
-	}
-	if _, res := m.Match(alt, method); res == MatchFull {
-		return alt, true
-	}
-	return "", false
+	return b.Build(), nil
 }
diff --git a/pkg/agent/endpoint/manifest_test.go b/pkg/agent/endpoint/manifest_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..00e81b561
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/agent/endpoint/manifest_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+// Copyright 2026 LiveKit, Inc.
+
+package endpoint
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/livekit/protocol/livekit"
+
+	"github.com/livekit/livekit-server/pkg/agent/endpoint/router"
+)
+
+func ep(path string, methods []string, public bool) *livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint {
+	return &livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{Path: path, Methods: methods, Public: public}
+}
+
+func TestManifestFullPartialSemantics(t *testing.T) {
+	// POST /x registered after GET /x must still serve POSTs (starlette scans
+	// for a FULL match before settling for the PARTIAL 405)
+	m, err := ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{
+		ep("/x", []string{"GET"}, true),
+		ep("/x", []string{"POST"}, true),
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	r, res := m.Match("/x", methodMask(http.MethodPost))
+	require.Equal(t, router.ResultFull, res)
+	require.Equal(t, "/x", r.Template.String())
+
+	// the manifest carries the app's methods verbatim: FastAPI does not imply
+	// HEAD from GET, so neither does the matcher
+	_, res = m.Match("/x", methodMask(http.MethodHead))
+	require.Equal(t, router.ResultPartial, res)
+
+	// PARTIAL only when no route serves the method
+	_, res = m.Match("/x", methodMask(http.MethodDelete))
+	require.Equal(t, router.ResultPartial, res)
+
+	// an unroutable method masks to 0
+	_, res = m.Match("/x", methodMask("BREW"))
+	require.Equal(t, router.ResultPartial, res)
+
+	_, res = m.Match("/nope", methodMask(http.MethodGet))
+	require.Equal(t, router.ResultNone, res)
+}
+
+func TestSlashAlternatePaths(t *testing.T) {
+	m, err := ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{
+		ep("/hook", []string{"POST"}, true),
+		ep("/", []string{"POST"}, true),
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	candidates := []*Registration{{Manifest: m}}
+
+	cases := []struct {
+		path, escPath string
+		alt, altEsc   string
+		ok            bool
+	}{
+		// a slash-mismatched request normalizes to the registered form
+		{"/hook/", "/hook/", "/hook", "/hook", true},
+		// no route matches either slash form
+		{"/other/", "/other/", "/other/", "/other/", false},
+		// %2F decodes to a slash without being a separator
+		{"/hook/", "/hook%2F", "/hook/", "/hook%2F", false},
+		// "//" trims to "/" in both forms
+		{"//", "//", "/", "/", true},
+		// "/" has no alternate to try
+		{"/", "/", "/", "/", false},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		alt, altEsc, ok := slashAlternatePaths(candidates, c.path, c.escPath, methodMask(http.MethodPost))
+		require.Equal(t, c.ok, ok, "%q %q", c.path, c.escPath)
+		require.Equal(t, c.alt, alt, "%q %q", c.path, c.escPath)
+		require.Equal(t, c.altEsc, altEsc, "%q %q", c.path, c.escPath)
+	}
+}
+
+// Templates anchor as `\n?$`: path refuses '\n' where str accepts it, so a
+// decoded %0A would otherwise change which route wins.
+func TestManifestTrailingNewlineRouteIdentity(t *testing.T) {
+	m, err := ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{
+		ep("/files/{p:path}", []string{"GET"}, false),
+		ep("/files/{p}", []string{"GET"}, true),
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	r, res := m.Match("/files/x\n", methodMask(http.MethodGet))
+	require.Equal(t, router.ResultFull, res)
+	require.Equal(t, "/files/{p:path}", r.Template.String())
+	require.False(t, r.Public, "the private route must win, as it does on the worker")
+}
+
+func TestManifestValidation(t *testing.T) {
+	_, err := ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{ep("/x", nil, false)})
+	require.Error(t, err, "http endpoint without methods")
+
+	_, err = ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{ep("/x", []string{"get"}, false)})
+	require.Error(t, err, "lowercase method")
+
+	_, err = ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{ep("/x", []string{"GTE"}, false)})
+	require.Error(t, err, "unsupported method rejected")
+
+	_, err = ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{ep("no-slash", []string{"GET"}, false)})
+	require.Error(t, err, "template without a leading slash")
+
+	_, err = ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{ep("/x/{a:slug}", []string{"GET"}, false)})
+	require.Error(t, err, "custom convertor")
+
+	// the full FastAPI/starlette verb set is accepted
+	_, err = ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{
+		ep("/x", []string{"GET", "HEAD", "POST", "PUT", "PATCH", "DELETE", "OPTIONS", "TRACE"}, false),
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err, "all FastAPI verbs accepted")
+
+	_, err = ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{
+		{Path: "/ws", Kind: livekit.AgentHttp_AEK_TEXT, Methods: []string{"GET"}},
+	})
+	require.Error(t, err, "unsupported endpoint kind")
+}
diff --git a/pkg/agent/endpoint/template.go b/pkg/agent/endpoint/template.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 63f27d8b5..000000000
--- a/pkg/agent/endpoint/template.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2026 LiveKit, Inc.
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package endpoint
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"regexp"
-	"strings"
-)
-
-// Template is a compiled starlette-style path template. The compilation mirrors
-// starlette's compile_path exactly: {name} or {name:convertor} segments become the
-// convertor's pattern, everything else is matched literally, anchored on both ends.
-// Workers declare templates through FastAPI routes, so any divergence from
-// starlette's semantics would make the server route requests the worker-side
-// router then refuses.
-type Template struct {
-	re *regexp.Regexp
-	// the declared template, retained so a matched route can be reported
-	raw string
-}
-
-// String returns the template as the worker declared it.
-func (t *Template) String() string { return t.raw }
-
-// convertor patterns copied verbatim from starlette's convertors.py. The uuid
-// pattern deliberately makes every hyphen optional, so 32 bare hex characters
-// match too.
-var convertorPatterns = map[string]string{
-	"str":   `[^/]+`,
-	"path":  `.*`,
-	"int":   `[0-9]+`,
-	"float": `[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?`,
-	"uuid":  `[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-?[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-?[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-?[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-?[0-9a-fA-F]{12}`,
-}
-
-// starlette's PARAM_REGEX
-var paramRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`\{([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)(:[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)?\}`)
-
-// ParseTemplate compiles a starlette path template. Custom convertors are
-// rejected: only the five built-ins may travel over the wire.
-func ParseTemplate(path string) (*Template, error) {
-	if !strings.HasPrefix(path, "/") {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("path template must start with '/': %q", path)
-	}
-
-	var pattern strings.Builder
-	pattern.WriteString("^")
-
-	idx := 0
-	seen := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, m := range paramRegex.FindAllStringSubmatchIndex(path, -1) {
-		start, end := m[0], m[1]
-		name := path[m[2]:m[3]]
-		convertor := "str"
-		if m[4] != -1 {
-			convertor = path[m[4]+1 : m[5]] // skip the ':'
-		}
-		convPattern, ok := convertorPatterns[convertor]
-		if !ok {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown path convertor %q in template %q", convertor, path)
-		}
-		if seen[name] {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("duplicated param name %q in template %q", name, path)
-		}
-		seen[name] = true
-
-		pattern.WriteString(regexp.QuoteMeta(path[idx:start]))
-		pattern.WriteString("(?:")
-		pattern.WriteString(convPattern)
-		pattern.WriteString(")")
-		idx = end
-	}
-	pattern.WriteString(regexp.QuoteMeta(path[idx:]))
-	pattern.WriteString("$")
-
-	re, err := regexp.Compile(pattern.String())
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid path template %q: %w", path, err)
-	}
-	return &Template{re: re, raw: path}, nil
-}
-
-func (t *Template) Match(path string) bool {
-	return t.re.MatchString(path)
-}
diff --git a/pkg/agent/endpoint/template_test.go b/pkg/agent/endpoint/template_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 9388dbb2d..000000000
--- a/pkg/agent/endpoint/template_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
-package endpoint
-
-import (
-	"net/http"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-
-	"github.com/livekit/protocol/livekit"
-)
-
-func TestTemplateStarletteSemantics(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := []struct {
-		template string
-		path     string
-		match    bool
-	}{
-		{"/token", "/token", true},
-		{"/token", "/token/", false},
-		{"/token", "/Token", false},
-		{"/users/{id}", "/users/42", true},
-		{"/users/{id}", "/users/42/posts", false},
-		{"/users/{id}", "/users/", false},
-		{"/users/{id:int}", "/users/42", true},
-		{"/users/{id:int}", "/users/4x2", false},
-		{"/files/{p:path}", "/files/a/b/c.txt", true},
-		{"/files/{p:path}", "/files/", true},
-		{"/price/{v:float}", "/price/1.25", true},
-		{"/price/{v:float}", "/price/1.", false},
-		{"/obj/{u:uuid}", "/obj/123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000", true},
-		// starlette's uuid convertor makes every hyphen optional
-		{"/obj/{u:uuid}", "/obj/123e4567e89b12d3a456426614174000", true},
-		{"/obj/{u:uuid}", "/obj/123e4567", false},
-		{"/a/{x}/b/{y}", "/a/1/b/2", true},
-		{"/a/{x}/b/{y}", "/a/1/c/2", false},
-	}
-	for _, c := range cases {
-		tpl, err := ParseTemplate(c.template)
-		require.NoError(t, err, c.template)
-		require.Equal(t, c.match, tpl.Match(c.path), "%s vs %s", c.template, c.path)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTemplateRejectsCustomConvertors(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseTemplate("/x/{id:slug}")
-	require.Error(t, err)
-	_, err = ParseTemplate("/x/{a}/{a}")
-	require.Error(t, err)
-	_, err = ParseTemplate("no-slash")
-	require.Error(t, err)
-}
-
-func ep(path string, methods []string, public bool) *livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint {
-	return &livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{Path: path, Methods: methods, Public: public}
-}
-
-func TestManifestFullPartialSemantics(t *testing.T) {
-	// POST /x registered after GET /x must still serve POSTs (starlette scans
-	// for a FULL match before settling for the PARTIAL 405)
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{
-		ep("/x", []string{"GET"}, true),
-		ep("/x", []string{"POST"}, true),
-	})
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	r, res := m.Match("/x", http.MethodPost)
-	require.Equal(t, MatchFull, res)
-	require.Contains(t, r.Methods, "POST")
-
-	// the manifest carries the app's methods verbatim: FastAPI does not imply
-	// HEAD from GET, so neither does the matcher
-	_, res = m.Match("/x", http.MethodHead)
-	require.Equal(t, MatchPartial, res)
-
-	// PARTIAL only when no route serves the method
-	_, res = m.Match("/x", http.MethodDelete)
-	require.Equal(t, MatchPartial, res)
-
-	_, res = m.Match("/nope", http.MethodGet)
-	require.Equal(t, MatchNone, res)
-}
-
-func TestManifestSlashAlternate(t *testing.T) {
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{
-		ep("/hook", []string{"POST"}, true),
-	})
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	// a slash-mismatched request normalizes to the registered form
-	alt, ok := m.slashAlternate("/hook/", http.MethodPost)
-	require.True(t, ok)
-	require.Equal(t, "/hook", alt)
-
-	// no route matches either slash form
-	_, ok = m.slashAlternate("/other/", http.MethodPost)
-	require.False(t, ok)
-}
-
-func TestManifestValidation(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{ep("/x", nil, false)})
-	require.Error(t, err, "http endpoint without methods")
-
-	_, err = ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{ep("/x", []string{"get"}, false)})
-	require.Error(t, err, "lowercase method")
-
-	_, err = ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{ep("/x", []string{"GTE"}, false)})
-	require.Error(t, err, "unsupported method rejected")
-
-	// the full FastAPI/starlette verb set is accepted
-	_, err = ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{
-		ep("/x", []string{"GET", "HEAD", "POST", "PUT", "PATCH", "DELETE", "OPTIONS", "TRACE"}, false),
-	})
-	require.NoError(t, err, "all FastAPI verbs accepted")
-
-	_, err = ParseManifest([]*livekit.AgentHttp_AgentEndpoint{
-		{Path: "/ws", Kind: livekit.AgentHttp_AEK_TEXT, Methods: []string{"GET"}},
-	})
-	require.Error(t, err, "unsupported endpoint kind")
-}