diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b5938f6..eceb8e2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -202,17 +202,19 @@ nursery.launch(
 		nvc.checkAndRethrowException();
 	});
 
-nursery.requestCancelOnAll();
 nursery.closeAdmission();
+nursery.requestCancelOnAll();
 nursery.syncAwaitAllSettlements(
 	sscl::ComponentThread::getSelf()->getIoContext());
 ```
 
 Each slot owns a `SyncCancelerForAsyncWork`. `requestCancelOnAll()` only signals
 cooperative stop; it does not destroy invokers. Invokers are retired when their
-completion callbacks run. Call `closeAdmission()` explicitly before
-`asyncAwaitAllSettlements()` or `syncAwaitAllSettlements()`; those APIs wait until
-all slots have retired naturally and throw if admission is still open.
+completion callbacks run. Call `closeAdmission()` before `requestCancelOnAll()`
+so no new work can be admitted after cancel begins, and call `closeAdmission()`
+explicitly before `asyncAwaitAllSettlements()` or `syncAwaitAllSettlements()`;
+those APIs wait until all slots have retired naturally and throw if admission is
+still open.
 
 `syncAwaitAllSettlements()` runs a nested `io_context` loop on the **calling
 thread** (it blocks in `run_one()` until every slot has retired). Pass the
diff --git a/include/spinscale/co/nonViralTaskNursery.h b/include/spinscale/co/nonViralTaskNursery.h
index 824c724..ef2530b 100644
--- a/include/spinscale/co/nonViralTaskNursery.h
+++ b/include/spinscale/co/nonViralTaskNursery.h
@@ -55,9 +55,6 @@ struct MemberInvoker : MemberInvokerBase
  *	nursery member. The external submitter should add the complete flow to the
  *	nursery and then return; the nursery owns that flow until the flow settles.
  *
- *	Call closeAdmission() explicitly before asyncAwaitAllSettlements() or
- *	syncAwaitAllSettlements().
- *
  *	syncAwaitAllSettlements() runs a nested io_context loop on the calling
  *	thread (AsynchronousBridge). Pass the calling thread's io_context —
  *	typically
@@ -240,6 +237,36 @@ public:
 		s.rsrc.admissionOpen = true;
 	}
 
+	/**	EXPLANATION:
+	 * Stopping a nursery: always closeAdmission() before
+	 * requestCancelOnAll(). requestCancelOnAll() only marks currently
+	 * ACTIVE_UNSETTLED slots; it does not refuse new leases. If cancel
+	 * runs while admission is still open, a concurrent submitter can still
+	 * getNewSlotLease() / launch() after cancel has fanned out, and that
+	 * newly admitted work will not have been cancelled — it races past the
+	 * stop wave and keeps the drain from reaching "all settled" until it
+	 * finishes on its own (or a later cancel). Closing admission first
+	 * seals the nursery so cancel applies to a fixed membership set, then
+	 * drain with asyncAwaitAllSettlements() / syncAwaitAllSettlements()
+	 * (those APIs also require admission already closed).
+	 *
+	 * Preferred stop stack for a daemon/service that enqueues request
+	 * coroutines into the nursery: keep protocol "stop listening /
+	 * disconnect / refuse new connections and requests" separate from
+	 * protocol state destruction. Stop accepting at the protocol level
+	 * first, then nursery closeAdmission(), then requestCancelOnAll(),
+	 * then cancel any awaited I/O owned outside the cancelers, then drain,
+	 * then destroy protocol state. That ordering stops new work at the
+	 * source before admission is sealed.
+	 *
+	 * If the daemon/service cannot disconnect/stop listening separately
+	 * from destruction, the spinscale-using embedding project must handle
+	 * closed-admission failures when it tries to enqueue. For example,
+	 * catch the "admission closed" throw around nursery.launch() (or in
+	 * the factory that calls it) and emit a protocol-specific failure such
+	 * as "connection failed" or "request timed out" instead of letting the
+	 * exception escape the accept/request path unbounded.
+	 */
 	void closeAdmission()
 	{
 		sscl::SpinLock::Guard guard(s.lock);