diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Routing/project.json b/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Routing/project.json
index e1f0ae7320..ee7e51354f 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Routing/project.json
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Routing/project.json
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
+  "description": "ASP.NET 5 middleware and abstractions for routing requests to application logic and for generating links.",
   "version": "1.0.0-*",
   "compilationOptions": {
     "warningsAsErrors": true