diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 96b48be..3c3e58a 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ seams a host may rebind:
 | `Notices\Contracts\Writer_Interface` | `Notices\Writer` | what each notice says |
 | `Conflict\Contracts\Resolver_Interface` | `Conflict\Resolver` | one method: which policy branch a conflict takes |
 | `Plugin\Contracts\Deactivator_Interface` | `Plugin\Deactivator` | deactivates the standalone, network-aware |
-| `Plugin\Contracts\Checker_Interface` | `Plugin\Checker` | answers whether a plugin is active |
+| `Plugin\Contracts\Checker_Interface` | `Plugin\Checker` | answers whether a plugin is active (either scope), and whether it is network-active |
 | `Contracts\Activator_Interface` | `Activator` | run-once activation-callback tracking |
 
 The rest — `Boot\Scheduler`, `Loader`, `Registry\Reader`, `Conflict\Detector`, `Conflict\Gatekeeper`,
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ that drives the whole of it against a real WordPress is `tests/unit/Scenario/`.
 | `src/Loader.php` | The load pass: the gate chain, the `require_once`, the activation callback. |
 | `src/Sub_Plugin.php` | Value object; validates config and answers what it can without a container-bound collaborator. |
 | `src/Conflict_Policy.php` | The three policy constants, `default()`, `is_valid()`. |
-| `src/Plugin/` | `Deactivator` (turns the standalone off), `Checker` (answers whether a plugin is active), `Loads_Plugin_Functions` (pulls in `wp-admin/includes/plugin.php`), `Contracts\Deactivator_Interface`, `Contracts\Checker_Interface`. The only files that touch WordPress plugin functions. |
+| `src/Plugin/` | `Deactivator` (turns the standalone off), `Checker` (answers whether a plugin is active in either scope, and whether it is network-active — `is_plugin_active_for_network()`, which is `false` off a network so no caller needs an `is_multisite()` guard), `Loads_Plugin_Functions` (pulls in `wp-admin/includes/plugin.php`), `Contracts\Deactivator_Interface`, `Contracts\Checker_Interface`. The only files that touch WordPress plugin functions. |
 | `src/Registry/` | `Registrar` (holds registered `Sub_Plugin` objects), `Reader` (the registration buffer, drained into the registrar on the way past; the object every pass reads the registry through), `Contracts\Registrar_Interface`. |
 | `src/Activator.php` | Runs a sub-plugin's activation callback once ever, recorded in one option. |
 | `src/Conflict/` | `Detector` (whether a standalone is in the way), `Resolver` (which policy branch to take), `Gatekeeper` (which requests, and which users, may have one resolved), `Redirector` (where the user lands afterwards), `Rewriter` (rewrites the activation-error screen for a registered standalone), `Contracts\Resolver_Interface`. |
diff --git a/src/Plugin/Checker.php b/src/Plugin/Checker.php
index 0ea75ac..db136f8 100644
--- a/src/Plugin/Checker.php
+++ b/src/Plugin/Checker.php
@@ -32,4 +32,19 @@ public function is_active( string $basename ): bool {
 		// sub-plugin per request.
 		return is_plugin_active( $basename );
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @since 1.0.0
+	 *
+	 * @param string $basename Plugin basename.
+	 *
+	 * @return bool
+	 */
+	public function is_network_active( string $basename ): bool {
+		$this->load_plugin_functions();
+
+		// is_plugin_active_for_network() checks is_multisite() itself and returns false off a
+		// network, so the stranding guard that reads this needs no is_multisite() test of its own.
+		return is_plugin_active_for_network( $basename );
+	}
 }
diff --git a/src/Plugin/Contracts/Checker_Interface.php b/src/Plugin/Contracts/Checker_Interface.php
index 7a7c5b1..14ce389 100644
--- a/src/Plugin/Contracts/Checker_Interface.php
+++ b/src/Plugin/Contracts/Checker_Interface.php
@@ -36,4 +36,22 @@ interface Checker_Interface {
 	 * @return bool
 	 */
 	public function is_active( string $basename ): bool;
+
+	/**
+	 * Whether the plugin is active across the whole network.
+	 *
+	 * Network scope only, unlike `is_active()`, which counts either scope. The two are asked for
+	 * different reasons: `is_active()` answers "the standalone's code is going to run this request",
+	 * while this answers "deactivating it reaches every site" -- the question the conflict resolver's
+	 * stranding guard turns on. Returns `false` whenever the site is not multisite, because
+	 * WordPress's own `is_plugin_active_for_network()` does, so a caller needs no `is_multisite()`
+	 * guard of its own and the stranding guard is a no-op off a network.
+	 *
+	 * @since 1.0.0
+	 *
+	 * @param string $basename Plugin basename.
+	 *
+	 * @return bool
+	 */
+	public function is_network_active( string $basename ): bool;
 }
diff --git a/tests/unit/Boot/SchedulerTest.php b/tests/unit/Boot/SchedulerTest.php
index 3ec0821..a6274cf 100644
--- a/tests/unit/Boot/SchedulerTest.php
+++ b/tests/unit/Boot/SchedulerTest.php
@@ -1298,6 +1298,15 @@ static function (): Checker_Interface {
 					public function is_active( string $basename ): bool {
 						return true;
 					}
+
+					/**
+					 * @param string $basename Plugin basename.
+					 *
+					 * @return bool
+					 */
+					public function is_network_active( string $basename ): bool {
+						return false;
+					}
 				};
 			}
 		);
diff --git a/tests/unit/Conflict/DetectorTest.php b/tests/unit/Conflict/DetectorTest.php
index 8d8fc45..fa9841d 100644
--- a/tests/unit/Conflict/DetectorTest.php
+++ b/tests/unit/Conflict/DetectorTest.php
@@ -481,6 +481,15 @@ public function is_active( string $basename ): bool {
 
 				return $this->answer;
 			}
+
+			/**
+			 * @param string $basename Plugin basename.
+			 *
+			 * @return bool
+			 */
+			public function is_network_active( string $basename ): bool {
+				return false;
+			}
 		};
 	}
 
@@ -531,6 +540,15 @@ public function is_active( string $basename ): bool {
 
 				return in_array( $basename, $this->active, true );
 			}
+
+			/**
+			 * @param string $basename Plugin basename.
+			 *
+			 * @return bool
+			 */
+			public function is_network_active( string $basename ): bool {
+				return false;
+			}
 		};
 	}
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/Plugin/CheckerTest.php b/tests/unit/Plugin/CheckerTest.php
index 815131a..77d738d 100644
--- a/tests/unit/Plugin/CheckerTest.php
+++ b/tests/unit/Plugin/CheckerTest.php
@@ -128,6 +128,59 @@ static function () {
 		$this->assertSame( 1, $calls );
 	}
 
+	public function test_it_reports_a_network_active_plugin(): void {
+		$this->setFunctionReturn( 'is_plugin_active_for_network', true );
+
+		$this->assertTrue( $this->checker->is_network_active( 'give-recurring/give-recurring.php' ) );
+	}
+
+	public function test_it_reports_a_plugin_that_is_not_network_active(): void {
+		$this->setFunctionReturn( 'is_plugin_active_for_network', false );
+
+		$this->assertFalse( $this->checker->is_network_active( 'give-recurring/give-recurring.php' ) );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * The basename reaches the stranding guard's comparison next, so asserting only the return value
+	 * would let the wrong plugin decide whether a network-wide deactivation is safe.
+	 */
+	public function test_it_passes_the_basename_through_to_the_network_check(): void {
+		$received = null;
+
+		$this->setFunctionReturn(
+			'is_plugin_active_for_network',
+			static function ( $basename ) use ( &$received ) {
+				$received = $basename;
+
+				return true;
+			},
+			true
+		);
+
+		$this->checker->is_network_active( 'give-recurring/give-recurring.php' );
+
+		$this->assertSame( 'give-recurring/give-recurring.php', $received );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * The mirror of the single-scope check: is_network_active() asks the network function and only
+	 * that one. is_plugin_active() ORs the network check into its answer, so reaching for it here
+	 * would report a merely site-active standalone as network-active and wave through a network-wide
+	 * deactivation the stranding guard exists to refuse.
+	 */
+	public function test_the_network_check_asks_only_the_network_function(): void {
+		$this->setFunctionReturn(
+			'is_plugin_active',
+			static function () {
+				throw new LogicException( 'is_network_active() must not ask the site-scope function.' );
+			},
+			true
+		);
+		$this->setFunctionReturn( 'is_plugin_active_for_network', true );
+
+		$this->assertTrue( $this->checker->is_network_active( 'give-recurring/give-recurring.php' ) );
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * `Plugin\Loads_Plugin_Functions` guards on `deactivate_plugins()`, and it has to keep doing so.
 	 * `is_plugin_active()` is a common third-party shim: guarded on that name, something else defining
diff --git a/tests/unit/Scenario/HostTest.php b/tests/unit/Scenario/HostTest.php
index 56a24e4..3aac440 100644
--- a/tests/unit/Scenario/HostTest.php
+++ b/tests/unit/Scenario/HostTest.php
@@ -106,6 +106,15 @@ public function is_active( string $basename ): bool {
 
 				return in_array( $basename, $this->active, true );
 			}
+
+			/**
+			 * @param string $basename Plugin basename.
+			 *
+			 * @return bool
+			 */
+			public function is_network_active( string $basename ): bool {
+				return false;
+			}
 		};
 
 		$deactivator = new class() implements Deactivator_Interface {