diff --git a/forc-plugins/forc-node/Cargo.toml b/forc-plugins/forc-node/Cargo.toml
index f271872e75a..4eb598b2b1c 100644
--- a/forc-plugins/forc-node/Cargo.toml
+++ b/forc-plugins/forc-node/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "forc-node"
+description = "a wrapper around fuel-core to bootstrap nodes"
 version.workspace = true
 edition.workspace = true
 authors.workspace = true