diff --git a/vortex-extension/src/conflictNotifications.test.ts b/vortex-extension/src/conflictNotifications.test.ts
index 685b299..15f7e2f 100644
--- a/vortex-extension/src/conflictNotifications.test.ts
+++ b/vortex-extension/src/conflictNotifications.test.ts
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ describe('notifyConflictsIfChanged', () => {
     const notification = api.sendNotification.mock.calls[0][0];
     expect(notification.id).toBe(WSM_CONFLICTS_NOTIFICATION_ID);
     expect(notification.allowSuppress).toBe(true);
+    // no onResolveNow supplied here, so no action button - see the "Resolve Now" tests below
     expect(notification.actions).toEqual([]);
     expect(typeof notification.type).toBe('string');
     expect(typeof notification.message).toBe('string');
@@ -87,6 +88,59 @@ describe('notifyConflictsIfChanged', () => {
     expect(WSM_CONFLICTS_NOTIFICATION_ID).not.toBe('witcher3-merge');
   });
 
+  // Regression coverage for the passive version of this notification: it shipped
+  // `actions: []` and a message that said nothing about consequence. On a real install it
+  // fired ("5 unresolved script conflicts found") seconds before the user launched a game
+  // that would not start with an empty merged mod - the information was present and led
+  // nowhere. See notifyConflictsIfChanged's own doc comment.
+  it('adds a "Resolve Now" action when a resolver is supplied', () => {
+    const api = fakeApi();
+
+    notifyConflictsIfChanged(api as never, [conflict('a.ws')], () => undefined);
+
+    const notification = api.sendNotification.mock.calls[0][0];
+    expect(notification.actions).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(notification.actions[0].title).toBe('Resolve Now');
+  });
+
+  it('runs the resolver, and dismisses the notification first, when "Resolve Now" is invoked', () => {
+    const api = fakeApi();
+    const order: string[] = [];
+    const dismiss = vi.fn(() => { order.push('dismiss'); });
+    const onResolveNow = vi.fn(() => { order.push('resolve'); });
+
+    notifyConflictsIfChanged(api as never, [conflict('a.ws')], onResolveNow);
+
+    const notification = api.sendNotification.mock.calls[0][0];
+    notification.actions[0].action(dismiss);
+
+    expect(onResolveNow).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    // dismissed before the workflow starts, so a now-stale count can't sit there while the
+    // merge runs and then get re-shown by the post-merge scan
+    expect(order).toEqual(['dismiss', 'resolve']);
+  });
+
+  it('does not require a dismiss callback to be passed to the action', () => {
+    const api = fakeApi();
+    const onResolveNow = vi.fn();
+
+    notifyConflictsIfChanged(api as never, [conflict('a.ws')], onResolveNow);
+
+    const notification = api.sendNotification.mock.calls[0][0];
+    expect(() => notification.actions[0].action()).not.toThrow();
+    expect(onResolveNow).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('warns that the game may fail to start, not just that conflicts exist', () => {
+    const api = fakeApi();
+
+    notifyConflictsIfChanged(api as never, [conflict('a.ws')], () => undefined);
+
+    const notification = api.sendNotification.mock.calls[0][0];
+    expect(notification.message).toContain('unresolved script conflict');
+    expect(notification.message).toContain('may fail to start');
+  });
+
   it('does not re-notify on a second call with the identical conflict set (same signature)', () => {
     const api = fakeApi();
 
diff --git a/vortex-extension/src/conflictNotifications.ts b/vortex-extension/src/conflictNotifications.ts
index 5ca38ef..64b74bd 100644
--- a/vortex-extension/src/conflictNotifications.ts
+++ b/vortex-extension/src/conflictNotifications.ts
@@ -194,7 +194,26 @@ export function resetConflictNotificationState(): void {
  * with that same conflict set would silently skip re-attempting it for the rest of the
  * session (the same-signature early-return above would treat it as "already shown").
  */
-export function notifyConflictsIfChanged(api: types.IExtensionApi, conflicts: ScanConflictsResult): void {
+/**
+ * `onResolveNow`, when supplied, turns this from a passive warning into an actionable one:
+ * the notification gains a "Resolve Now" button running the same workflow as the Mods-page
+ * toolbar action. Injected rather than imported so this module stays free of a cycle -
+ * `resolveAction` imports `coexistenceGuard`, which imports this file - and so the callback
+ * is trivially stubbable in tests. `index.ts` (the composition root, which already imports
+ * `resolveAction`) is what supplies it.
+ *
+ * This exists because the passive version demonstrably did not work. On a real install this
+ * notification fired ("5 unresolved script conflicts found") seconds before the user
+ * launched into a game that would not start, with an empty merged mod - the information was
+ * right there and led nowhere, because `actions` was empty and the message said nothing
+ * about the consequence. A warning whose only remedy is "go find a different button" is one
+ * the user reads as noise.
+ */
+export function notifyConflictsIfChanged(
+  api: types.IExtensionApi,
+  conflicts: ScanConflictsResult,
+  onResolveNow?: () => void,
+): void {
   if (isModOrDependencyInstallActive(api)) {
     log('debug', 'witcherscriptmerger-vortex: mod/dependency install activity in progress - skipping conflict notification check');
     return;
@@ -214,9 +233,18 @@ export function notifyConflictsIfChanged(api: types.IExtensionApi, conflicts: Sc
       api.sendNotification?.({
         id: WSM_CONFLICTS_NOTIFICATION_ID,
         type: 'warning',
-        message: `WitcherScriptMerger: ${unresolved.length} unresolved script conflict${unresolved.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} found`,
+        message: `WitcherScriptMerger: ${unresolved.length} unresolved script conflict${unresolved.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} found`
+          + ' - the game may fail to start until they are merged',
         allowSuppress: true,
-        actions: [],
+        actions: onResolveNow === undefined ? [] : [
+          {
+            title: 'Resolve Now',
+            action: (dismiss?: () => void) => {
+              dismiss?.();
+              onResolveNow();
+            },
+          },
+        ],
       });
     }
   } catch (err) {
diff --git a/vortex-extension/src/index.test.ts b/vortex-extension/src/index.test.ts
index e5e3548..7d0de7b 100644
--- a/vortex-extension/src/index.test.ts
+++ b/vortex-extension/src/index.test.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ const {
   notifyConflictsIfChangedMock,
   isModOrDependencyInstallActiveMock,
   refreshCoexistenceStateMock,
+  resolveScriptConflictsMock,
 } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
   ensureWsmToolRegisteredMock: vi.fn(),
   registerWsmStatusDashletMock: vi.fn(),
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ const {
   notifyConflictsIfChangedMock: vi.fn(),
   isModOrDependencyInstallActiveMock: vi.fn(),
   refreshCoexistenceStateMock: vi.fn(),
+  resolveScriptConflictsMock: vi.fn(),
 }));
 
 vi.mock('./toolAcquisition', () => ({
@@ -34,6 +36,15 @@ vi.mock('./statusTile', () => ({
   registerWsmStatusDashlet: registerWsmStatusDashletMock,
 }));
 
+// Partial mock, deliberately: index.ts now also imports resolveScriptConflicts, to hand
+// notifyConflictsIfChanged the callback behind the notification's "Resolve Now" button.
+// Only that one export is stubbed - registerResolveScriptConflictsAction stays real,
+// because a test below asserts it reaches context.registerAction with the right shape.
+vi.mock('./resolveAction', async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<typeof import('./resolveAction')>()),
+  resolveScriptConflicts: resolveScriptConflictsMock,
+}));
+
 vi.mock('./conflictScan', () => ({
   isWsmToolAcquired: isWsmToolAcquiredMock,
   scanWsmConflicts: scanWsmConflictsMock,
@@ -357,7 +368,7 @@ describe('main (index.ts)', () => {
       await fireAsyncEvent('did-deploy', 'profile1', undefined);
 
       expect(scanWsmConflictsMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-      expect(notifyConflictsIfChangedMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(context.api, conflicts);
+      expect(notifyConflictsIfChangedMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(context.api, conflicts, expect.any(Function));
     });
 
     it('skips scanning (without throwing) when no WSM tool has been acquired yet', async () => {
@@ -396,7 +407,61 @@ describe('main (index.ts)', () => {
       await fireAsyncEvent('did-deploy', 'profile1', undefined);
 
       expect(scanWsmConflictsMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-      expect(notifyConflictsIfChangedMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(context.api, conflicts);
+      expect(notifyConflictsIfChangedMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(context.api, conflicts, expect.any(Function));
+    });
+
+    // The whole point of the third argument: the notification's "Resolve Now" button has
+    // to actually run the merge workflow, not just exist. Regression coverage for the
+    // passive version, which shipped `actions: []` and left the user to go find a
+    // different button - on a real install it fired seconds before a game that wouldn't
+    // start, and led nowhere.
+    it('hands notifyConflictsIfChanged a callback that runs the resolve-conflicts workflow', async () => {
+      ensureWsmToolRegisteredMock.mockClear().mockResolvedValue(false);
+      isWsmToolAcquiredMock.mockClear().mockResolvedValue(true);
+      isModOrDependencyInstallActiveMock.mockClear().mockReturnValue(false);
+      refreshCoexistenceStateMock.mockClear().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+      scanWsmConflictsMock.mockClear().mockResolvedValue([{ relativePath: 'a.ws' }]);
+      notifyConflictsIfChangedMock.mockClear();
+      resolveScriptConflictsMock.mockReset().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+      const { context, fireOnce, fireAsyncEvent } = fakeContext(WITCHER3_GAME_ID, {
+        profile1: { gameId: WITCHER3_GAME_ID },
+      });
+
+      main(context);
+      fireOnce();
+      await fireAsyncEvent('did-deploy', 'profile1', undefined);
+
+      const onResolveNow = notifyConflictsIfChangedMock.mock.calls[0][2] as () => void;
+      expect(resolveScriptConflictsMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+      onResolveNow();
+
+      expect(resolveScriptConflictsMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(context.api);
+    });
+
+    // The callback must not let a rejected workflow escape as an unhandled rejection -
+    // resolveScriptConflicts reports its own failures to the user, so this is a log-only
+    // last-resort net, matching registerResolveScriptConflictsAction's own.
+    it('swallows a rejection from the Resolve Now callback rather than letting it escape', async () => {
+      ensureWsmToolRegisteredMock.mockClear().mockResolvedValue(false);
+      isWsmToolAcquiredMock.mockClear().mockResolvedValue(true);
+      isModOrDependencyInstallActiveMock.mockClear().mockReturnValue(false);
+      refreshCoexistenceStateMock.mockClear().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+      scanWsmConflictsMock.mockClear().mockResolvedValue([{ relativePath: 'a.ws' }]);
+      notifyConflictsIfChangedMock.mockClear();
+      resolveScriptConflictsMock.mockReset().mockRejectedValue(new Error('boom'));
+      const { context, fireOnce, fireAsyncEvent } = fakeContext(WITCHER3_GAME_ID, {
+        profile1: { gameId: WITCHER3_GAME_ID },
+      });
+
+      main(context);
+      fireOnce();
+      await fireAsyncEvent('did-deploy', 'profile1', undefined);
+
+      const onResolveNow = notifyConflictsIfChangedMock.mock.calls[0][2] as () => void;
+
+      expect(() => onResolveNow()).not.toThrow();
+      await Promise.resolve();
     });
 
     // Fix for a real wasted-work case: notifyConflictsIfChanged would discard this
diff --git a/vortex-extension/src/index.ts b/vortex-extension/src/index.ts
index 9f728a4..9829a3a 100644
--- a/vortex-extension/src/index.ts
+++ b/vortex-extension/src/index.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { isWsmToolAcquired, scanWsmConflicts } from './conflictScan';
 import { isModOrDependencyInstallActive, notifyConflictsIfChanged } from './conflictNotifications';
 import { isWitcher3Active, WITCHER3_GAME_ID } from './gating';
 import { registerMergeHistoryDashlet } from './mergeHistoryDashlet';
-import { registerResolveScriptConflictsAction } from './resolveAction';
+import { registerResolveScriptConflictsAction, resolveScriptConflicts } from './resolveAction';
 import { registerWsmStatusDashlet } from './statusTile';
 import { ensureWsmToolRegistered } from './toolAcquisition';
 
@@ -226,7 +226,21 @@ function main(context: types.IExtensionContext): boolean {
       }
 
       const conflicts = await scanWsmConflicts(context.api);
-      notifyConflictsIfChanged(context.api, conflicts);
+      // The third argument is what makes the notification actionable - see
+      // notifyConflictsIfChanged's own doc comment. Supplied here, at the composition
+      // root, because this module already imports resolveAction; conflictNotifications
+      // importing it directly would close a cycle (resolveAction -> coexistenceGuard ->
+      // conflictNotifications).
+      notifyConflictsIfChanged(context.api, conflicts, () => {
+        resolveScriptConflicts(context.api).catch((err: unknown) => {
+          // resolveScriptConflicts reports its own failures to the user; this is the
+          // same last-resort, log-only net registerResolveScriptConflictsAction uses
+          // around its own invocation.
+          log('warn', 'witcherscriptmerger-vortex: Resolve Now action failed unexpectedly', {
+            error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err),
+          });
+        });
+      });
     } catch (err) {
       log('warn', 'witcherscriptmerger-vortex: post-deploy conflict scan failed', {
         error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err),