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closes #14896

The router.resolution docs say the server "has an opportunity to intercept each navigation (for example through a middleware)". #14896 read that as "the handle hook runs", which it does not. Route resolution requests are answered as soon as the route has been looked up (respond.js#L323-L324), before handle is invoked and after reroute has run (respond.js#L249). Verified empirically in dev and in preview after a production build, details in #14896 (comment). The wording dates to #13379, which introduced server-side route resolution.

The new sentence is scoped to the route lookup rather than stating a blanket "handle never runs", because there is one path where it does. A pathname that fails to decode falls through to normal request handling (respond.js#L272-L277), deliberate behavior from #15744 so that malformed URLs render the default error page. In production GET /%c0/__route.js therefore reaches handle with pathname /%c0 before being rejected with a 400. Dev masks this because the dev middleware rejects malformed URIs earlier, which #15744 also notes.

Two changes to the option's JSDoc. "Middleware" now says what it refers to, and a sentence states which hooks run for resolution requests. types/index.d.ts regenerated.

Note on sequencing, #16396 also touches public.d.ts (different lines) and regenerates types/index.d.ts; whichever merges second needs a trivial rebase and regeneration.


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# Releases
## @sveltejs/[email protected]

### Major Changes

- breaking: `config` exported from a universal route file takes
precedence over a server one
([#16400](#16400))

- breaking: consistent special filename patterns
([#16382](#16382))

### Minor Changes

- feat: support sourcemaps in production
([#16412](#16412))

- feat: support function validators for environment variables
([#16402](#16402))

- feat: better error logging
([#16374](#16374))

### Patch Changes

- fix: don't treat callable standard schemas as function param matchers
([#16403](#16403))

- fix: reject malformed streamed data encoding
([#16423](#16423))

- fix: hide stack traces for internal errors like 404s
([#16411](#16411))

- perf: match only unpaired surrogates when escaping HTML
([#16407](#16407))

- fix: don't report empty environment variables as missing
([#16401](#16401))

- chore: clarify which hooks run during server route resolution
([#16397](#16397))
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[docs] does config.kit.router.resolution="server" trigger hooks.server.js#handle?

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