diff --git a/messages/de.json b/messages/de.json
index 71774346c..8cd49fd84 100644
--- a/messages/de.json
+++ b/messages/de.json
@@ -2275,6 +2275,7 @@
       "bandSetter": "Gesamtstufe bestimmt durch {pillar}",
       "versionAndNoise": "Methodenversion {version}. Schwelle für den Wochenvergleich: {noise} Punkte.",
       "methodVersion": "Methodenversion {version}.",
+      "configured": "Du hast festgelegt, welche Bereiche in diesen Score einfließen.",
       "none": "keiner",
       "delta": "{delta} gegenüber dem vorherigen vergleichbaren Zeitraum",
       "deltaReason": {
diff --git a/messages/en.json b/messages/en.json
index c8f7ba43e..671707c0e 100644
--- a/messages/en.json
+++ b/messages/en.json
@@ -2275,6 +2275,7 @@
       "bandSetter": "Overall band set by {pillar}",
       "versionAndNoise": "Method version {version}. Weekly comparison floor: {noise} points.",
       "methodVersion": "Method version {version}.",
+      "configured": "You chose which pillars count toward this score.",
       "none": "none",
       "delta": "{delta} vs the previous comparable window",
       "deltaReason": {
diff --git a/messages/es.json b/messages/es.json
index dd6ae9b36..2cf66b4a7 100644
--- a/messages/es.json
+++ b/messages/es.json
@@ -2275,6 +2275,7 @@
       "bandSetter": "Categoría general determinada por {pillar}",
       "versionAndNoise": "Versión del método {version}. Umbral de comparación semanal: {noise} puntos.",
       "methodVersion": "Versión del método {version}.",
+      "configured": "Tú has elegido qué pilares cuentan para esta puntuación.",
       "none": "ninguno",
       "delta": "{delta} frente al periodo comparable anterior",
       "deltaReason": {
diff --git a/messages/fr.json b/messages/fr.json
index 446b1a1af..045397178 100644
--- a/messages/fr.json
+++ b/messages/fr.json
@@ -2275,6 +2275,7 @@
       "bandSetter": "Catégorie globale fixée par {pillar}",
       "versionAndNoise": "Version de la méthode {version}. Seuil de comparaison hebdomadaire : {noise} points.",
       "methodVersion": "Version de la méthode {version}.",
+      "configured": "Vous avez choisi les piliers qui comptent pour ce score.",
       "none": "aucun",
       "delta": "{delta} par rapport à la période comparable précédente",
       "deltaReason": {
diff --git a/messages/it.json b/messages/it.json
index b176dfa11..9cf858017 100644
--- a/messages/it.json
+++ b/messages/it.json
@@ -2275,6 +2275,7 @@
       "bandSetter": "Fascia complessiva determinata da {pillar}",
       "versionAndNoise": "Versione del metodo {version}. Soglia del confronto settimanale: {noise} punti.",
       "methodVersion": "Versione del metodo {version}.",
+      "configured": "Hai scelto quali pilastri contano per questo punteggio.",
       "none": "nessuno",
       "delta": "{delta} rispetto al periodo precedente confrontabile",
       "deltaReason": {
diff --git a/messages/pl.json b/messages/pl.json
index 4b60aa32d..373259b63 100644
--- a/messages/pl.json
+++ b/messages/pl.json
@@ -2275,6 +2275,7 @@
       "bandSetter": "Ogólny zakres wyznacza {pillar}",
       "versionAndNoise": "Wersja metody {version}. Próg porównania tygodniowego: {noise} pkt.",
       "methodVersion": "Wersja metody {version}.",
+      "configured": "Wybrane przez Ciebie filary decydują o tym wyniku.",
       "none": "brak",
       "delta": "{delta} względem poprzedniego porównywalnego okresu",
       "deltaReason": {
diff --git a/src/components/insights/__tests__/health-score-card.test.tsx b/src/components/insights/__tests__/health-score-card.test.tsx
index 9938c6ca1..34a181398 100644
--- a/src/components/insights/__tests__/health-score-card.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/insights/__tests__/health-score-card.test.tsx
@@ -675,6 +675,44 @@ describe("<HealthScoreCard> footer", () => {
     expect(region).toContain("equal-weighted average");
   });
 
+  it("states an authored composition in the method footer, and only when the server says so", () => {
+    // The footer reads the resolved flag off the composite and says one
+    // sentence. It never names the pillars the person took out — that is
+    // the settings surface's job — and it never appears for an account
+    // whose composition is the default one.
+    const configured = render(
+      <HealthScoreCard
+        report={scoredReport({
+          composite: {
+            ...(scoredReport().composite as Extract<
+              HealthScoreReport["composite"],
+              { status: "ok" }
+            >),
+            value: {
+              ...(
+                scoredReport().composite as Extract<
+                  HealthScoreReport["composite"],
+                  { status: "ok" }
+                >
+              ).value,
+              configured: true,
+            },
+          },
+        })}
+      />,
+    );
+    expect(anatomyRegion(configured)).toContain(
+      'data-slot="health-score-configured"',
+    );
+    expect(anatomyRegion(configured)).toContain(
+      "You chose which pillars count toward this score.",
+    );
+
+    const inherited = render(<HealthScoreCard report={scoredReport()} />);
+    expect(inherited).not.toContain('data-slot="health-score-configured"');
+    expect(inherited).not.toContain("You chose which pillars count");
+  });
+
   it("shows the personal weight goal as explicitly unscored context", () => {
     const html = render(
       <HealthScoreCard
diff --git a/src/components/insights/health-score-card.tsx b/src/components/insights/health-score-card.tsx
index 59be655b7..5c7002728 100644
--- a/src/components/insights/health-score-card.tsx
+++ b/src/components/insights/health-score-card.tsx
@@ -594,6 +594,22 @@ export function HealthScoreCard({
                       noise: composite.value.noiseFloor,
                     })}
                   </p>
+                  {/*
+                   * The server resolved whether this composition is the
+                   * person's own; the footer states it and nothing more.
+                   * Which pillars they took out is the settings surface's
+                   * to show, not this one's, and re-deriving the answer
+                   * from a configuration blob here would put a second
+                   * decider behind one sentence.
+                   */}
+                  {composite.value.configured ? (
+                    <p
+                      data-slot="health-score-configured"
+                      className="text-muted-foreground text-xs"
+                    >
+                      {t("insights.healthScore.configured")}
+                    </p>
+                  ) : null}
                 </>
               ) : (
                 <p className="text-muted-foreground text-xs">