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 a per-site option on a large multisite network where one run for the whole network is not what you
 want. See [the recipe](recipes.md#do-per-site-work-on-multisite).
 
+## What each seam must implement
+
+The table names the job; these are the methods, and every one of them is required — PHP refuses to
+load a class that leaves one out, at class-declaration time rather than when the library first calls
+it. Two of this library's types appear below:
+
+```php
+use Nexcess\PluginAbsorber\Exceptions\Config_Exception;
+use Nexcess\PluginAbsorber\Sub_Plugin;
+```
+
+`Sub_Plugin` is one registered configuration, and its accessors — `get_slug()`,
+`get_standalone_plugin_basename()`, the message accessors named below — are how an implementation
+reads the config keys and runs [their filters](filters.md). A throw from any of these is caught at
+the hook boundary and reported through `_doing_it_wrong()`, so it costs that one step rather than the
+site; nothing retries it on the same request.
+
+### `Registry\Contracts\Registrar_Interface`
+
+```php
+public function register( Sub_Plugin $sub_plugin ): void;
+public function all(): array;
+```
+
+`register()` stores one sub-plugin, and a slug may only be registered once — throw a
+`Config_Exception` on the second rather than overwriting, or a copy-pasted slug silently replaces the
+sub-plugin it collided with. `all()` returns every registered sub-plugin keyed by slug, in
+registration order: `array<string,Sub_Plugin>`. The library narrows that array to `Sub_Plugin`
+instances before reading it, so anything else in it is dropped rather than fataling — which loses a
+sub-plugin quietly, and is worth not doing.
+
+### `Notices\Contracts\Writer_Interface`
+
+```php
+public function queue_merge_notice( Sub_Plugin $sub_plugin ): void;
+public function queue_conflict_notice( Sub_Plugin $sub_plugin ): void;
+public function queue_stranding_notice( Sub_Plugin $sub_plugin ): void;
+public function queue_dependency_notice( Sub_Plugin $sub_plugin ): void;
+public function option_name(): string;
+```
+
+- `queue_merge_notice()` — a deactivation has just been performed. Raised exactly once and never
+  re-queued, and the resolver redirects immediately afterwards, so it has to be kept somewhere that
+  outlives the request that wrote it. Word it from
+  `$sub_plugin->get_conflict_notice_message( $your_default )`, which applies the config key and its
+  filter over the default you pass.
+- `queue_conflict_notice()` — `NOTICE_ONLY`: the standalone is still running and the user is being
+  asked to turn it off. Same accessor, a default that asks rather than reports.
+- `queue_stranding_notice()` — multisite only, and recurring rather than once-ever: a network-active
+  standalone was left active because deactivating it network-wide would strand the sites the host
+  plugin never reaches. Its wording is `$sub_plugin->get_stranding_notice_message()`, and it must not
+  tell the user to deactivate the standalone — see
+  [the stranding guard](conflict-handling.md#the-multisite-stranding-guard).
+- `queue_dependency_notice()` — `dependency_check` returned false, so the sub-plugin did not load at
+  all. `$sub_plugin->get_dependency_notice_message()`.
+- `option_name()` — where *your* implementation keeps the queue. It is on the contract rather than on
+  the default class because `Absorber::notices()->option_name()` is what a host
+  [rendering the queue itself](notices.md#rendering-them-yourself) reads: name an option nothing
+  writes to and that host reads an empty one.
+
+### `Plugin\Contracts\Deactivator_Interface`
+
+```php
+public function deactivate( string $basename ): void;
+```
+
+One method, one argument: a plugin basename like `give-recurring/give-recurring.php`, the only
+identifier WordPress itself accepts. Called unattended during `plugins_loaded`, under the
+`DEACTIVATE` policy, on behalf of a user who did not ask for it. It reports nothing — whether the
+standalone actually went away is asked of the checker afterwards, not of you — so a no-op
+implementation is the honest way to say "plugin state is managed outside WordPress here", and an
+implementation that means to deactivate but does not leaves two copies of the plugin to load.
+
+### `Plugin\Contracts\Checker_Interface`
+
+```php
+public function is_active( string $basename ): bool;
+public function is_network_active( string $basename ): bool;
+```
+
+Two methods, asked for different reasons. `is_active()` answers "this plugin's code is going to run
+this request", so both scopes count: a network activation runs it as surely as a site one.
+`is_network_active()` is network scope only, and it is the one question the
+[stranding guard](conflict-handling.md#the-multisite-stranding-guard) asks — "would deactivating this
+reach every site". Return `false` whenever the site is not multisite, exactly as core's
+`is_plugin_active_for_network()` does: callers lean on that instead of guarding with `is_multisite()`
+themselves, so answering `true` off a network can have the guard decline a deactivation on a site
+with nothing to strand.
+
+```php
+use Nexcess\PluginAbsorber\Plugin\Contracts\Checker_Interface;
+
+class My_Checker implements Checker_Interface {
+    public function is_active( string $basename ): bool {
+        // Whatever your plugin considers the real list, before your own filters touch it.
+        return in_array( $basename, my_plugin_stored_active_plugins(), true )
+            || $this->is_network_active( $basename );
+    }
+
+    public function is_network_active( string $basename ): bool {
+        if ( ! is_multisite() ) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        $network_active = get_site_option( 'active_sitewide_plugins', [] );
+
+        return is_array( $network_active ) && array_key_exists( $basename, $network_active );
+    }
+}
+```
+
+### `Conflict\Contracts\Resolver_Interface`
+
+```php
+public function resolve_all(): void;
+```
+
+Called once per request, at `plugins_loaded` priority 5, and only after the
+[request and capability gates](conflict-handling.md#when-resolution-runs) pass and a conflict has
+been found. It is handed nothing: read the registry from the container your
+implementation was built with, and resolve every sub-plugin whose standalone is active — including
+the ones behind the first, which is why the default catches per sub-plugin. Ending the request is
+allowed, and the default does (`wp_safe_redirect()` then `exit`) — but after the loop, never inside
+it, or a site with two active standalones never reaches the second.
+
+### `Contracts\Activator_Interface`
+
+```php
+public function maybe_run( Sub_Plugin $sub_plugin ): void;
+```
+
+Called by the load pass after a `require_once` that actually happened, on every request, for every
+sub-plugin that loaded. Deciding it has already run for this slug is the whole job:
+`$sub_plugin->get_activation_callback()` hands back the configured `callable` or `null`, it is
+invoked with the `Sub_Plugin`, and where "already run" is recorded is yours. Record it after the
+callback returns rather than before, so a callback that throws is retried on the next request instead
+of being marked done half-finished.
+
 ## Class-name bindings must come after boot
 
 Everything without an interface is bound by class name — `Notices\Store`, `Notices\Renderer`,
@@ -40,6 +178,11 @@ Everything without an interface is bound by class name — `Notices\Store`, `Not
 `Absorber::boot()`: di52 reports `has()` true for any class that exists, bound or not, so boot cannot
 tell your binding from the container's own willingness to build the class, and replaces it.
 
+Boot also binds `StellarWP\ContainerContract\ContainerInterface` to the container itself, first and
+before anything else, so a container that builds unbound classes reflectively can still satisfy the
+library classes that take one. That id is an interface rather than a class, so the skip above applies
+to it: a container that already answers for it keeps whatever it has, whenever you bound it.
+
 ## What rebinding does not buy you
 
 Binding your own `Conflict\Contracts\Resolver_Interface` does not put you in charge of *when*
@@ -76,11 +219,14 @@ remove_action( 'all_admin_notices', [ Absorber::class, 'render_notices' ] );
 
 ## When a binding is wrong
 
-`Absorber::registrar()`, `notices()` and `resolver()` check what your container hands back and throw
-a `Config_Exception` naming the interface and the class that failed it, rather than letting a
-`TypeError` blame this library for your typo inside `plugins_loaded`. Whatever your container raises
-for a binding it cannot build at all comes through unwrapped. `Absorber::all()` drops anything a
-rebound registrar returns that is not a `Sub_Plugin`.
+`Absorber::registrar()`, `notices()`, `resolver()` and `all()` check what your container hands back
+and throw a `Config_Exception` naming the id they asked for and the class that failed it, rather than
+letting a `TypeError` blame this library for your typo inside `plugins_loaded`. A binding your
+container cannot build at all is reported the same way and not raised at you raw: whatever it threw
+is caught and wrapped in a `Config_Exception` that names the id, keeping the original as
+`getPrevious()`. `Absorber::boot()` is the one that does not wrap — a container that cannot build the
+provider or the scheduler throws its own exception out of your `boot()` call. Past the check,
+`Absorber::all()` also drops anything a rebound registrar returns that is not a `Sub_Plugin`.
 
 Nothing is built at boot beyond the two objects that do the booting: each hook resolves its
 collaborator when it fires, so a request that reaches none of them builds none of them, and you may