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## Title

    [PEFT] "Cannot delete adapter(s) [...] while they are merged. Please unmerge them first." / merged-adapter handling

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): Deleting a merged adapter would leave base weights modified.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/peft/b8674c86183a5dee38d0c3ede392e189593025e5/src/peft/tuners/tuners_utils.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): delete_adapter raises for still-merged adapters.
    
    Search phrasings: peft Cannot delete adapter while they are merged
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "observed_symptom": "delete_adapter raises.",
      "context": "Product: Hugging Face PEFT\nComponent: tuners_utils delete_adapter\nOperation: Agent script merges an adapter then tries to delete/swap adapters\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nException: ValueError\nPackages: peft main at pinned SHA\nTrigger: Adapter weights are currently merged into base weights.",
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      "symptom_signature": {
        "literal_error_text": "while they are merged. Please unmerge them first."
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