diff --git a/server/src/routes/openapi.ts b/server/src/routes/openapi.ts
index c1efdf31fec..807faef2032 100644
--- a/server/src/routes/openapi.ts
+++ b/server/src/routes/openapi.ts
@@ -5731,7 +5731,12 @@ registry.registerPath({
   method: "post",
   path: "/api/approvals/{id}/resubmit",
   tags: ["approvals"],
-  summary: "Resubmit an approval",
+  summary: "Revise and resubmit an approval or proposed hire",
+  description:
+    "Replace the payload of an approval whose status is revision_requested, or resubmit its existing payload. " +
+    "Use this operation to revise a changes-requested hire proposal, such as changing its agent configuration to a cheaper model, and send it back for board review. " +
+    "An agent must be the original requesting agent; board callers still need access to the company and approval. " +
+    "The approval returns to pending. This operation does not approve the request or create or execute the hire.",
   request: {
     params: z.object({ id: z.string() }),
     body: jsonBody(resubmitApprovalSchema),
diff --git a/server/src/services/native-runtime/runner-api.test.ts b/server/src/services/native-runtime/runner-api.test.ts
index f17a1a82a67..ed76e86a157 100644
--- a/server/src/services/native-runtime/runner-api.test.ts
+++ b/server/src/services/native-runtime/runner-api.test.ts
@@ -175,6 +175,24 @@ describe("runner API catalog", () => {
     expect(previewBody.properties).not.toHaveProperty("adapterOverrides");
   });
 
+  it("discovers proposal revision without confusing it with approval decisions or reads", () => {
+    const resubmit = "POST /api/approvals/{id}/resubmit";
+    for (const query of [
+      "revise changes-requested hire proposal",
+      "resubmit approval after changes",
+      "Change the proposed hire to the cheaper model and send it back for approval.",
+    ]) expect(searchRunnerApi({ query }).results.map(row => row.operationId), query).toContain(resubmit);
+    for (const [query, expected] of [
+      ["GET /api/approvals/{id}", "GET /api/approvals/{id}"],
+      ["approve approval", "POST /api/approvals/{id}/approve"],
+      ["reject approval", "POST /api/approvals/{id}/reject"],
+      [resubmit, resubmit],
+    ]) expect(searchRunnerApi({ query }).results[0]?.operationId, query).toBe(expected);
+    const operation = runnerApiOperation(resubmit);
+    expect(operation.requestBody?.content?.["application/json"]?.schema.properties).toHaveProperty("payload");
+    expect(operation.description).toContain("returns to pending");
+  });
+
   it("keeps natural-language function words from hiding the requested API resource", () => {
     expect(searchRunnerApi({ query: "list comments for an issue" }).results[0]?.operationId)
       .toBe("GET /api/issues/{id}/comments");