diff --git a/tests/skill/understand/test_extract_import_map.test.mjs b/tests/skill/understand/test_extract_import_map.test.mjs
index ee64136..a4be65a 100644
--- a/tests/skill/understand/test_extract_import_map.test.mjs
+++ b/tests/skill/understand/test_extract_import_map.test.mjs
@@ -1492,3 +1492,55 @@ describe('extract-import-map.mjs — tree-sitter init graceful failure', () => {
     expect(result.output.stats.totalEdges).toBe(0);
   });
 });
+
+describe('extract-import-map.mjs — deterministic stderr ordering across loaders', () => {
+  let projectRoot;
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    if (projectRoot) {
+      rmSync(projectRoot, { recursive: true, force: true });
+      projectRoot = null;
+    }
+  });
+
+  // Regression for the parallel-loader stderr-order bug surfaced in
+  // PR #346 review: tsconfig / go.mod / composer.json loaders now run
+  // concurrently, but warnings must still emit in the pre-PR canonical
+  // order (tsconfig → go → php). If the loaders streamed warnings
+  // mid-flight, I/O timing could reorder them — the assertions below
+  // catch that regression.
+  it('emits warnings in canonical order (tsconfig, go, php) regardless of I/O timing', () => {
+    projectRoot = setupTree({
+      'tsconfig.json': '{ "compilerOptions": { "baseUrl": ".", ', // unterminated
+      'composer.json': '{ "autoload": { "psr-4": { "App\\\\": "src/" }, ', // unterminated
+      'src/index.ts': `import { foo } from './foo';\n`,
+      'src/foo.ts': `export const foo = 1;\n`,
+      'src/Http/Controller.php':
+        `<?php\nnamespace App\\Http;\n\nuse App\\Models\\User;\n\nclass Controller { }\n`,
+      'src/Models/User.php':
+        `<?php\nnamespace App\\Models;\nclass User { }\n`,
+    });
+
+    const result = runScript(projectRoot, {
+      projectRoot,
+      files: [
+        { path: 'tsconfig.json', language: 'json', fileCategory: 'config' },
+        { path: 'composer.json', language: 'json', fileCategory: 'config' },
+        { path: 'src/index.ts', language: 'typescript', fileCategory: 'code' },
+        { path: 'src/foo.ts', language: 'typescript', fileCategory: 'code' },
+        { path: 'src/Http/Controller.php', language: 'php', fileCategory: 'code' },
+        { path: 'src/Models/User.php', language: 'php', fileCategory: 'code' },
+      ],
+    });
+
+    expect(result.status).toBe(0);
+    const tsLineIdx = result.stderr.indexOf('tsconfig.json at');
+    const composerLineIdx = result.stderr.indexOf('composer.json at');
+    expect(tsLineIdx).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+    expect(composerLineIdx).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+    // Canonical order: tsconfig warnings precede composer warnings.
+    // Pre-PR-346 this fell out of sequential loader passes; post-fix it
+    // falls out of buffering + ordered drain in buildResolutionContext.
+    expect(tsLineIdx).toBeLessThan(composerLineIdx);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/understand-anything-plugin/skills/understand/extract-import-map.mjs b/understand-anything-plugin/skills/understand/extract-import-map.mjs
index ec31856..4010584 100644
--- a/understand-anything-plugin/skills/understand/extract-import-map.mjs
+++ b/understand-anything-plugin/skills/understand/extract-import-map.mjs
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ function parseTsConfigText(raw) {
  */
 async function loadTsConfigs(projectRoot, files) {
   const out = new Map();
+  const warnings = [];
   // Collect the candidate paths in the original file order before reading,
   // so warning emit order matches the previous sequential implementation.
   const candidates = [];
@@ -220,7 +221,7 @@ async function loadTsConfigs(projectRoot, files) {
   for (const { key: p, raw, err } of reads) {
     if (err) {
       // absPath isn't carried through the helper return shape; reconstruct it.
-      process.stderr.write(
+      warnings.push(
         `Warning: extract-import-map: tsconfig.json at ${join(projectRoot, p)} failed ` +
         `to read (${err.message}) — path aliases from this config will ` +
         `not be applied — relative imports unaffected\n`,
@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ async function loadTsConfigs(projectRoot, files) {
     }
     const parsed = parseTsConfigText(raw);
     if (!parsed) {
-      process.stderr.write(
+      warnings.push(
         `Warning: extract-import-map: tsconfig.json at ${join(projectRoot, p)} failed ` +
         `to parse — path aliases from this config will not be applied ` +
         `— relative imports unaffected\n`,
@@ -238,7 +239,7 @@ async function loadTsConfigs(projectRoot, files) {
     }
     out.set(dirOf(p), parsed);
   }
-  return out;
+  return { configs: out, warnings };
 }
 
 /**
@@ -267,6 +268,12 @@ async function loadTsConfigs(projectRoot, files) {
  */
 async function loadGoModules(projectRoot, files) {
   const out = new Map();
+  // loadGoModules currently emits no warnings (read failures are silently
+  // skipped — per-file resolvers surface "no ancestor go.mod" later), but
+  // the `{ data, warnings }` shape matches loadTsConfigs / loadPhpAutoloads
+  // so the concurrent caller in buildResolutionContext can drain them
+  // uniformly in canonical order.
+  const warnings = [];
   const candidates = [];
   for (const f of files) {
     const p = toPosix(f.path);
@@ -289,7 +296,7 @@ async function loadGoModules(projectRoot, files) {
     if (!moduleName) continue;
     out.set(dirOf(p), moduleName);
   }
-  return out;
+  return { modules: out, warnings };
 }
 
 /**
@@ -340,11 +347,26 @@ async function buildResolutionContext(projectRoot, files) {
   // The three config-loader passes are independent and each does its own
   // batched parallel I/O; run them concurrently so the wait for a slow
   // tsconfig.json read doesn't block go.mod / composer.json scanning.
-  const [tsConfigs, goModules, phpAutoloads] = await Promise.all([
+  //
+  // Each loader BUFFERS warnings into a private array rather than writing
+  // them to stderr inline. If a loader streamed warnings directly during
+  // the concurrent passes, lines from independent loader families could
+  // interleave based on I/O timing — that would break the pre-PR
+  // deterministic order (ts → go → php) and make stderr-diff verification
+  // flaky. Drain the buffers in canonical order *after* Promise.all, so
+  // a fixture with `(malformed tsconfig.json, malformed composer.json)`
+  // always emits `tsconfig…\ncomposer…\n`, never the reverse.
+  const [tsResult, goResult, phpResult] = await Promise.all([
     loadTsConfigs(projectRoot, files),
     loadGoModules(projectRoot, files),
     loadPhpAutoloads(projectRoot, files),
   ]);
+  for (const w of tsResult.warnings) process.stderr.write(w);
+  for (const w of goResult.warnings) process.stderr.write(w);
+  for (const w of phpResult.warnings) process.stderr.write(w);
+  const tsConfigs = tsResult.configs;
+  const goModules = goResult.modules;
+  const phpAutoloads = phpResult.autoloads;
 
   // Index .go files by their parent directory so the Go resolver can
   // expand a package-level import to all member .go files in O(1).
@@ -1054,6 +1076,7 @@ function parseComposerAutoloadText(raw) {
  */
 async function loadPhpAutoloads(projectRoot, files) {
   const out = new Map();
+  const warnings = [];
   const candidates = [];
   for (const f of files) {
     const p = toPosix(f.path);
@@ -1066,7 +1089,7 @@ async function loadPhpAutoloads(projectRoot, files) {
   const reads = await readFilesParallel(candidates);
   for (const { key: p, raw, err } of reads) {
     if (err) {
-      process.stderr.write(
+      warnings.push(
         `Warning: extract-import-map: composer.json at ${join(projectRoot, p)} failed ` +
         `to read (${err.message}) — PSR-4 namespace mapping from this ` +
         `composer.json unavailable — PHP imports under this package ` +
@@ -1076,7 +1099,7 @@ async function loadPhpAutoloads(projectRoot, files) {
     }
     const parsed = parseComposerAutoloadText(raw);
     if (parsed === null) {
-      process.stderr.write(
+      warnings.push(
         `Warning: extract-import-map: composer.json at ${join(projectRoot, p)} failed ` +
         `to parse — PSR-4 namespace mapping unavailable — PHP imports ` +
         `under this package will not resolve\n`,
@@ -1085,7 +1108,7 @@ async function loadPhpAutoloads(projectRoot, files) {
     }
     out.set(dirOf(p), parsed);
   }
-  return out;
+  return { autoloads: out, warnings };
 }
 
 /**