diff --git a/driver-describe.sh b/driver-describe.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..71e32b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/driver-describe.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -exo pipefail
+# This script outputs a version string (along the lines of git-describe)
+# to identify the driver version currently in use, starting from tags
+# in falcosecurity/libs (or its fork draios/agent-libs).
+
+# to be called from that directory
+
+git version >/dev/null || (echo "Please install git" && exit 1)
+
+[[ -e .git && -e driver/ ]] || (echo "Please run this script from the root folder of the agent-libs git workspace" && exit 1)
+
+LAST_COMMIT=$(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%h")
+# TODO find a better name for tag prefix
+LAST_TAG=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 --match  "driver-*" || echo "")
+if [[ -n "$LAST_TAG" ]]; then
+    LAST_VERSION=$(echo $LAST_TAG | cut -c 8-) # TODO beware of driver- prefix
+    # Check the number of commits which *actually* changed _something_ in driver/
+    N_COMMITS=$(git log --oneline ...${LAST_TAG} -- driver/ | wc -l)
+    if [[ ${N_COMMITS} -gt 0 ]]; then
+        echo "${LAST_VERSION}-${N_COMMITS}-${LAST_COMMIT}"
+    else
+        echo "${LAST_VERSION}"
+    fi
+else
+    # We couldn't find a tag, let's make something up
+    echo "0.0.0-0-${LAST_COMMIT}"
+fi
diff --git a/sysdig-probe-loader b/sysdig-probe-loader
index 3d7e86a..a576111 100755
--- a/sysdig-probe-loader
+++ b/sysdig-probe-loader
@@ -730,7 +730,14 @@ if [ "${SCRIPT_NAME}" = "sysdig-probe-loader" ]; then
 	PACKAGE_NAME="sysdig"
 elif [ "${SCRIPT_NAME}" = "sysdigcloud-probe-loader" ]; then
 	EXEPATH=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "${0}")")
+	# If we were give a SYSDIG_VERSION (which is, indeed, a DRIVER_VERSION), we can just accept it.
+	# Otherwise, we look for one.
 	if [ -z "$SYSDIG_VERSION" ]; then
+		# Look for an explicit driver version requirement, if we have one
+		SYSDIG_VERSION=$(sed -n -e 's/driver version: \(.*\)/\1/p' /opt/draios/etc/.agent_build)
+	fi
+	if [ -z "$SYSDIG_VERSION" ]; then
+		# As a fallback, look for the exact version (this should be the case up to 12.11.0)
 		SYSDIG_VERSION=$("${EXEPATH}"/dragent --version)
 	fi
 	PROBE_NAME="sysdigcloud-probe"
@@ -770,4 +777,4 @@ if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
 	exit 1
 fi
 echo "Probe loaded"
-exit 0
\ No newline at end of file
+exit 0