diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index 11d2cde..0392640 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -45,20 +45,22 @@ rather than restate it. Roughly in the order things happen at runtime:
     until its hardware interrupts it**. The claim is the capability; `irq_ack` is the
     unmask.
 14. **[driver-model.md](driver-model.md) — buses, classes and host controllers.** How
-    real driver stacks factor into three shapes, how families share code, and the
-    proposed ABI for the three primitives still missing (capability passing, DMA +
-    memory barriers, MSI).
+    real driver stacks factor into three shapes and how families share code. The
+    three primitives it proposed are long since built (M13 capability passing,
+    M14 DMA + barriers, M15 MSI), and the driver *contract* on top of them —
+    hello, supervision, restart — is built too (device-manager.md, M18).
 15. **[process-management.md](process-management.md) — process management.** The
     microkernel's `ps`/`kill`/SIGCHLD: enumerate as a table snapshot, the
     supervision link as the kill authority, and child-exit notifications over the
     same endpoints IRQs arrive on.
-16. **[process-lifecycle.md](process-lifecycle.md) — the process lifecycle.** Design:
-    signals over IPC as the one lifecycle vocabulary every process speaks — the
+16. **[process-lifecycle.md](process-lifecycle.md) — the process lifecycle.** Built
+    (M17): signals over IPC as the one lifecycle vocabulary every process speaks — the
     POSIX.1-1990 words with message delivery instead of stack hijack, the stable
     `runtime.process` interface, exit reasons, published exit events any stateful
     service can subscribe to (the VFS releasing dead clients' handles), and the two
     iron rules (cleanup is the kernel's job; kill is not a signal).
-17. **[device-manager.md](device-manager.md) — the device manager.** Design: the
+17. **[device-manager.md](device-manager.md) — the device manager.** Built (M18,
+    through the app surface): the
     tree, the matcher, and the supervisor. Tree structure lives in the manager,
     authority stays in the kernel; bus drivers report what they see; drivers are
     restarted through the lifecycle vocabulary — the plan that turns
diff --git a/docs/drivers.md b/docs/drivers.md
index 3a1743b..d2bb88a 100644
--- a/docs/drivers.md
+++ b/docs/drivers.md
@@ -362,3 +362,23 @@ the first DMA driver to protect and test against) and these smaller items:
 - **Interrupt priority / threaded IRQ latency.** `notifyFromIsr` enqueues the woken
   driver but doesn't preempt (`wakeLocked` deliberately leaves that to the caller), so
   a woken driver waits for the next scheduling point.
+
+## The driver contract (M17–M18)
+
+Claiming and mapping is half of being a danos driver; the other half is the
+**lifecycle and protocol contract**, and the runtime makes it nearly free:
+
+- Build on `runtime.service.run` — one replyWait loop folding protocol
+  requests, signals, and notifications into callbacks. The harness answers the
+  universal zero-length ping and turns `terminate` into a clean exit for you
+  ([process-lifecycle.md](process-lifecycle.md)).
+- A driver spawned with an assignment (its device id as argv[1]) sends the
+  versioned `hello` to the device manager inside the deadline, and a **bus**
+  driver reports what it discovers with `child_added`
+  ([device-manager.md](device-manager.md); usb-xhci-bus is the reference
+  implementation).
+- Crash freely — that is the design. The kernel releases your claims, IRQ
+  bindings, and MSI vectors at death; the manager reads your exit reason,
+  prunes what you reported, restarts you with backoff, and your fresh instance
+  re-claims and re-reports. Never depend on your own cleanup running
+  (iron rule 1).
diff --git a/docs/m19-m20-plan.md b/docs/m19-m20-plan.md
index 32d3c71..d1b2b66 100644
--- a/docs/m19-m20-plan.md
+++ b/docs/m19-m20-plan.md
@@ -122,7 +122,9 @@ branch is green; keep branches; push everything.
 ## Phase notes
 
 **M19.0 apertures:** the boot memory map already crosses the handoff
-([boot-handoff]); the holes computation belongs where the bridge node is built
+([boot-handoff]), but discovery never sees it today — expect a small
+pass-through (kernel init hands the map to the platform layer) before the
+holes computation, which belongs where the bridge node is built
 (`parseMcfg`). Sanity-check on QEMU q35: the xHCI BAR (`0xc0000000`-region
 values seen in the M18 logs) must land inside a derived aperture, asserted in
 the kernel unit test.
@@ -142,6 +144,13 @@ scenario can assert it.
 kernel still enumerates (timers, ACPI nodes until M20.3). The PCI arm of
 `pciDriverFor` switches source; `driverFor` doesn't move until M20.3.
 
+**M20.1 spawn and identity (pre-settled 2026-07-13):** the manager spawns
+`discovery` by its neutral ramdisk name at startup, as an ordinary protocol
+driver (hello, supervision) — from M20.1 on, on every boot. For reporting ACPI
+devices, `ChildAdded` gains `hid: [8]u8` (EISA ids fit; zero = none):
+firmware *string* identity travels beside the numeric `identity` field until
+the FDT-driven widening replaces both (decision 7).
+
 **M20.1 Hal in ring 3:** `mapMmio` → `device.mmioMap` over the claimed
 acpi-tables node (plus a table-offset map for blobs); `pioRead`/`pioWrite` →
 `device.ioRead`/`ioWrite` against its io_port resource. The interpreter cannot
diff --git a/docs/resilience.md b/docs/resilience.md
index bc96c17..6e30cc8 100644
--- a/docs/resilience.md
+++ b/docs/resilience.md
@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
 # Resilience: fault isolation and live restart
 
-Steps 1–2 of the ordering below are **built**: user-mode isolation, and fault →
-kill the process → keep the core (`onException` in `system/kernel/kernel.zig`; the
-`fault-recovery` test proves a crashing ring-3 process dies alone while the system
-keeps running). The supervisor notification and restart policy (steps 3+) are
-still design. This is the property danos is really chasing:
+Steps 1–4 of the ordering below are **built** (M17–M18, 2026-07-13): user-mode
+isolation; fault → kill the process → keep the core (`onException`; the
+`fault-recovery` test); the supervisor notification **with exit reasons**
+([process-lifecycle.md](process-lifecycle.md) — clean exit, fault class, or
+killed, recorded before the notice posts); and the **restart policy itself**
+([device-manager.md](device-manager.md)): the device manager supervises every
+driver, restarts crashes with backoff, caps crash loops, and re-claims work
+because the kernel releases a dead process's claims. The `driver-restart` and
+`usb-report` scenarios prove kill → release → respawn → re-claim → re-report
+end to end. What remains of this document's ladder is scope, not mechanism:
+more of the system moved into restartable processes (the discovery migration,
+[m19-m20-plan.md](m19-m20-plan.md), is the next rung). This is the property danos is really chasing:
 **if a part of the OS breaks, isolate it, and re-initialise it — without rebooting.**
 A crashed driver gets restarted; a wedged service gets killed and brought back. It's
 the reason the [microkernel](vision.md) shape was chosen, and it's a *separate* goal