diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 29ab0652e..68716a54f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ The format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/).
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- **Trusted Automation Profile Description** (#9156): Corrected the `trusted` built-in automation profile description from `"Auto for most, human for apply and revert"` to `"Auto-exec, manual apply. Day-to-day development"` to match the specification at line 17197.
+
 - **Atomic `load_from_metadata` for Autonomy Guardrails** (#7504): Fixed
   `AutonomyGuardrailService.load_from_metadata()` to validate both
   `AutonomyGuardrails` and `GuardrailAuditTrail` models before writing either
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index e6ad29fd1..9955cddc0 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Below are some of the specific details of various contributions.
 
 * Jeffrey Phillips Freeman has acted as Lead Developer, daily contributor, and Project Owner.
 * Brent E. Edwards has contributed quality assurance, test coverage, and CI pipeline improvements.
+* HAL 9000 has contributed the trusted automation profile description correction (#9156): updated the `trusted` built-in profile description to match the specification.
 * HAL 9000 has contributed automated implementation, bug fixes, and feature development as part of the CleverAgents automation pool.
 * HAL 9000 has contributed the plan concurrency race-condition fix (#7989): wired `LockService` into the plan lifecycle, guarding `execute_plan()` and `apply_plan()` with plan-level advisory locks and unique per-invocation owner identities to prevent silent concurrent state corruption.
 * HAL 9000 has contributed the bug-hunt-pool-supervisor non-blocking tracking fix: updated step 5 to be best-effort and added rule 9 to prevent the automation-tracking-manager call from blocking the main supervisor loop.
diff --git a/src/cleveragents/domain/models/core/automation_profile.py b/src/cleveragents/domain/models/core/automation_profile.py
index 2e6ff2774..cae78d976 100644
--- a/src/cleveragents/domain/models/core/automation_profile.py
+++ b/src/cleveragents/domain/models/core/automation_profile.py
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ BUILTIN_PROFILES: dict[str, AutomationProfile] = {
     ),
     "trusted": AutomationProfile(
         name="trusted",
-        description=("Auto for most, human for apply and revert"),
+        description="Auto-exec, manual apply. Day-to-day development",
         schema_version="1.0",
         decompose_task=0.0,
         create_tool=0.0,