diff --git a/app.manifest.yaml b/app.manifest.yaml
index 14f1b24..d6d2638 100644
--- a/app.manifest.yaml
+++ b/app.manifest.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 name: "@companion"
 description: "AI Companion Platform — orchestration API, PWA frontend, voice pipeline"
+type: service-cluster
 category: product
 
+depends_on:
+  - "@ai"
+
 services:
   companion-api:
     description: "NestJS orchestration API — session, chat SSE, voice WS"
@@ -24,16 +28,50 @@ services:
     description: "PostgreSQL — conversation session and message storage"
     type: postgres
     ports:
-      db: 26397
+      db: 26407
 
   companion-redis:
     description: "Redis — session cache and pub/sub"
     type: redis
     ports:
-      db: 26396
+      db: 26406
 
 platforms:
   apricot:
     os: linux
     host: 10.0.0.13
     environment: development
+    # Services declared in start order: infrastructure first, application last.
+    # stop reverses this order automatically.
+    services:
+      companion-postgres:
+        type: docker-compose
+        compose: "@deployments/docker-compose.yml"
+        compose-service: companion-postgres
+        port: "26407"
+        description: "PostgreSQL — conversation session and message storage"
+      companion-redis:
+        type: docker-compose
+        compose: "@deployments/docker-compose.yml"
+        compose-service: companion-redis
+        port: "26406"
+        description: "Redis — session cache and pub/sub"
+      companion-api:
+        type: nestjs
+        port: "3850"
+        description: "NestJS orchestration API — session, chat SSE, voice WS"
+        start:
+          path: "@applications/api"
+          script: pnpm dev
+      companion-web:
+        type: frontend
+        port: "5850"
+        description: "React PWA — mobile-first AI companion frontend"
+        start:
+          path: "@applications/web"
+          script: pnpm dev
+    status:
+      command: "curl -sf http://localhost:3850/health | python3 -c \"import sys,json; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print('active' if d.get('status')=='ok' else 'inactive')\" 2>/dev/null || echo 'inactive'"
+      type: custom
+    logs:
+      file: "/tmp/manage-apps-@companion-companion-api.log"