diff --git a/docs/internal/modules.md b/docs/internal/modules.md
index 5765011..76bf209 100644
--- a/docs/internal/modules.md
+++ b/docs/internal/modules.md
@@ -64,12 +64,13 @@ lanes. The canonical ordering and cache-boundary policy is documented in
 contracts expose only Notarius structured-completion types, not Scriptorium
 public types.
 
-The shared `ChunkPromptMaterial` helper owns common transcript material
-preparation for the spell, NPC, combat-turn, and NPC-interaction extractors. It clones supplied
-source metadata, falls back to the materialized chunk when content is absent,
-checks that content remains chunk-identical, and fills only the common default
-fields. Extractors retain their request validation and wrap helper errors with
-their module context.
+The shared `PrepareChunkExtraction` helper owns common extraction preflight and
+transcript material preparation for the spell, NPC, combat-turn,
+NPC-interaction, and scene-description extractors. It validates common request
+state, clones supplied source metadata, falls back to the materialized chunk
+when content is absent, checks that content remains chunk-identical, and fills
+only the common default fields. Extractors retain receiver, dependency, and
+lane-specific checks locally and wrap helper errors with their module context.
 
 Reference material may inform a module or prompt but must not become source
 evidence. The resolver and materializer behavior is described in
@@ -575,6 +576,37 @@ When adding a production module or validator:
 Do not add the extension to `docs/development.md`; that file routes by task and
 does not inventory implementations.
 
+### D&D Extractor Contract
+
+New D&D extractors preserve these package-owned responsibilities:
+
+- Reject unknown options unless an option namespace is intentionally
+  extensible, and use shared common preflight while retaining receiver,
+  dependency, and lane-specific checks locally.
+- Return independently owned results and exposed metadata that callers may
+  safely mutate.
+- Keep the private response DTO, structural response schema and its identity,
+  provider-response mapping, durable artifact conversion, and lane diagnostics
+  in the owning package.
+- Include every stable semantic input that can change durable output in
+  checkpoint identity. Consider prompt, schema, mapping, canonicalization,
+  prepared reference projections, identity, normalization, and trimming where
+  applicable.
+- Add focused behavioral coverage where the lane's risks warrant it, including
+  construction and registration, option rejection, preflight, provider
+  failures, structured decoding, mapping and ownership, prompt
+  role/input/cache order, and checkpoint invalidation.
+
+Prompt ordering, shared-asset ownership, cache boundaries, and private-schema
+rules are defined in [LLM Runtime](llm.md#dd-extraction-prompt-ordering-and-cache-boundaries).
+[Pipeline Internals](pipeline.md#reference-materialization) owns reference
+materialization, and its [checkpoint hooks](pipeline.md#checkpoint-and-debug-hooks)
+define checkpoint behavior. Follow [Architecture](../policy/architecture.md#source-and-domain-boundaries)
+for ownership boundaries and the [Testing Policy](../policy/testing.md) when
+selecting durable coverage. This contract intentionally does not prescribe
+prompt prose or length, hashes, test counts, filenames, fixture layouts, or
+generic implementation builders.
+
 ## Tests To Inspect
 
 - Package-local `*_test.go` files under the module or validator being changed.
diff --git a/internal/modules/dnd/extract/combatturns/extractor.go b/internal/modules/dnd/extract/combatturns/extractor.go
index 2436943..4184425 100644
--- a/internal/modules/dnd/extract/combatturns/extractor.go
+++ b/internal/modules/dnd/extract/combatturns/extractor.go
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import (
 
 const (
 	Key           = "dnd/combat-turns"
-	ArtifactType  = "dnd.combat_turn"
 	mappingPolicy = "dnd.combat_turns.extract_mapping.v2"
 )
 
diff --git a/internal/modules/dnd/extract/spells/extractor.go b/internal/modules/dnd/extract/spells/extractor.go
index 422bbfa..11fbc92 100644
--- a/internal/modules/dnd/extract/spells/extractor.go
+++ b/internal/modules/dnd/extract/spells/extractor.go
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import (
 )
 
 const Key = "dnd/spells"
-const ArtifactType = "dnd.spell_cast"
 const SchemaVersion = "v1"
 
 const mappingPolicy = "dnd.spells.extract_mapping.v2"
@@ -122,6 +121,9 @@ func (e *Extractor) ReferenceSlots() []contracts.ReferenceSlot {
 }
 
 func (e *Extractor) ManifestMetadata() map[string]any {
+	if e == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
 	metadata := map[string]any{
 		"prompt_id":               PromptID,
 		"prompt_version":          SchemaVersion,
diff --git a/internal/modules/dnd/extract/spells/extractor_test.go b/internal/modules/dnd/extract/spells/extractor_test.go
index 8d0702d..9942933 100644
--- a/internal/modules/dnd/extract/spells/extractor_test.go
+++ b/internal/modules/dnd/extract/spells/extractor_test.go
@@ -174,6 +174,13 @@ func TestExtractorManifestMetadataIncludesLLMSchemaProvenance(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestNilExtractorManifestMetadata(t *testing.T) {
+	var extractor *Extractor
+	if metadata := extractor.ManifestMetadata(); metadata != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("nil extractor metadata = %#v, want nil", metadata)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestExtractPassesReferencesAsPromptInputs(t *testing.T) {
 	client := &fakeSpellsLLMClient{response: extractionResponse{SpellCasts: []spellCastResponse{}}}
 	req := extractionRequest()