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What: Document in docs/conflict-handling.md that conflict resolution never runs on a site that serves no interactive admin GET, so the switchover to the bundled copy is deferred — never fatal — on a host administered only over SFTP, Composer, or WP-CLI.

Why this way:

It's a limitation, not a workaround. The note frames the deferred switchover as this library's own deferral and deliberately does not tell hosts to deactivate the standalone themselves — that responsibility stays with the library.

It sits in "When resolution runs," qualifying the "waiting costs nothing" claim. That section already establishes the admin-GET-only rule; this is the one case where "still there on the next page view" has no next page view, because the load guard keeps the standalone serving in place of the bundled copy the host ships updates for.

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    • Clarified conflict handling for sites without an interactive administration page.
    • Documented that the standalone version remains active while the bundled version is suppressed.
    • Explained that switchover occurs on the first request meeting all resolution requirements.

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The conflict-handling documentation now states that switchover waits for the first request that satisfies all resolution gates. Non-eligible requests continue without redirect, and the load guard suppresses the bundled copy until switchover.

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Conflict handling documentation

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Document deferred switchover
docs/conflict-handling.md
Documents the resolution gates, continued handling of non-eligible requests, and suppression of the bundled copy before switchover.

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The documentation still describes switchover timing and triggering incompletely, which could cause hosts or integrators to misunderstand when the bundled copy takes effect. Merge should wait until these documented conditions match the implemented behavior or the risk is explicitly accepted.

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In `@docs/conflict-handling.md`:
- Around line 73-75: Update the switchover trigger description around Gatekeeper
and Scheduler to state that it waits for the first eligible interactive admin
GET: the request must be non-action and originate from a user with the required
deactivation capability.
- Around line 70-72: Update the paragraph around “the load guard” to qualify the
guarantee: it applies only to standalone versions that define
plugin_loaded_constant. Preserve the documented exception where a standalone
lacks that constant and the bundled copy loads alongside it.
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