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What: Registry\Reader::flush() reports a refused registration instead of rethrowing it, and the read-guards come off Loader::load_all() (plugins_loaded priority 6) and Boot\Scheduler::resolve_conflicts() (plugins_loaded priority 5).

Usage: nothing new to call — a host that registers one slug twice now keeps every other sub-plugin.

Absorber::register( [ 'slug' => 'give-recurring',    … ] );  // stands, and loads
Absorber::register( [ 'slug' => 'give-recurring',    … ] );  // refused, and reported
Absorber::register( [ 'slug' => 'give-fee-recovery', … ] );  // loads, on every request

Why this way:

One duplicated slug used to cost a site every bundled plugin it has. The buffer empties before the hand-over, so whichever pass read first absorbed the rethrow for everyone: on the front end that is the load pass, which loaded nothing at all, while wp-admin showed them all running and silently stopped deactivating standalones.

A bad registration costs the host that registration, and nothing else. The registrar keeps throwing — its sentence naming the slug and both bundled files is what the report carries — and the read answers with what it legitimately holds.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Duplicate registrations are now reported individually without stopping loading or conflict resolution.
    • The first registration remains active, while conflicting entries are discarded and later valid entries continue loading.
    • Duplicate reports identify the discarded entry for easier troubleshooting.
    • Configuration errors encountered while reading registry data now propagate clearly.
  • Documentation

    • Updated configuration guidance and scenarios to describe non-fatal duplicate-registration handling.

Registry\Reader::flush() rethrew the registrar's duplicate-slug refusal out of
the read, and it could only do that once: the buffer is emptied before the
hand-over, so the next read returned at the empty-buffer guard. Whichever pass
read first paid for it. On an admin GET the conflict pass at plugins_loaded
priority 5 read first, caught, and resolved no conflict at all, while the load
pass at 6 found the buffer drained and loaded everything -- so wp-admin looked
healthy. On the front end, on a POST, on cron and under WP-CLI the gatekeeper
turns the conflict pass away, so the load pass read first, caught, and returned
having loaded none of the site's bundled plugins, on every request, for as long
as the duplicate existed.

The refusal is now reported through _doing_it_wrong() where it is found, and the
read answers with what the registrar legitimately holds. One mistaken
registration costs the host that one registration.

Reported as it is discovered rather than at every read. The buffer drains once
per process and registration runs at plugin-file scope, so that is one report
per request for as long as the duplicate exists -- honest and unmissable --
where re-reporting from a remembered collision would print the same sentence
twice in every admin request, once for each pass, and again for an
activation-error rewrite, and would put a second piece of static state on the
reader to do it. A registration that arrives after a read is still checked when
it drains, so a later collision still reports, and every collision in a batch
reports rather than only the first: nothing rations the report now that it is
not a single rethrown exception.

Loader::load_all() and Boot\Scheduler::resolve_conflicts() lose the
catch ( Config_Exception ) around the read, which nothing can reach any more.
The per-sub-plugin catch ( Throwable ) inside the load loop stays, and so does
the conflict step's Throwable backstop -- a host's gate, probe or resolver can
still throw, and a host-bound registrar's all() can still throw from the read
itself.
`Absorber::all()` and both of `Conflict\Rewriter`'s registry reads still
declared a duplicate slug as a Config_Exception their callers had to handle.
The read reports and carries on now, so the only cause left on those paths is
a missing container or a missing hook prefix -- which is what each tag names.
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Duplicate registrations are reported with _doing_it_wrong() and refused individually. The first registration remains active, later valid registrations continue through conflict detection and loading, and registry-read exceptions no longer use specialized handling.

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Duplicate registration handling

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Registry collision handling
src/Registry/Reader.php, tests/unit/Registry/ReaderTest.php
Reader::flush() reports each collision and continues processing. Tests verify retained registrations, repeated reads, and multiple collision reports.
Conflict and loading propagation
src/Absorber.php, src/Conflict/Rewriter.php, src/Boot/Scheduler.php, src/Loader.php, tests/unit/AbsorberTest.php, tests/unit/Boot/SchedulerTest.php, tests/unit/Conflict/DetectorTest.php, tests/unit/LoaderTest.php
Consumers use retained registrations. Conflict notices remain active, and valid sub-plugins continue loading.
Scenario and API contract updates
tests/README.md, tests/unit/Scenario/ConflictTest.php, tests/unit/Scenario/LoadTest.php, AGENTS.md, docs/configuration.md, docs/recipes.md
Documentation describes per-entry refusal, reporting, and continued processing instead of exception propagation.

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The PR isolates duplicate registrations so one refused slug no longer prevents other plugins from loading; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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  participant BundledSubPlugins
  participant Reader
  participant Detector
  participant Scheduler
  participant Loader
  BundledSubPlugins->>Reader: provide registrations
  Reader->>Reader: report duplicate entries
  Reader-->>Detector: return retained registrations
  Detector-->>Scheduler: report conflict result
  Scheduler->>Scheduler: keep conflict notice queued
  Reader-->>Loader: return retained registrations
  Loader->>Loader: load valid sub-plugins
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Both docs said the collision surfaces on plugins_loaded. That is where it
normally lands, because the passes are what read first -- but the trigger is
the read, not the hook, and a host that calls Absorber::all() itself at
plugin-file scope drains the buffer and gets the report there instead. The
sentence already said registrations are buffered until the first read; this
just makes that half the trigger and leaves the hook as the usual case.
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