diff --git a/SKILL.md b/SKILL.md
index 24f08fc2..01bbdef7 100644
--- a/SKILL.md
+++ b/SKILL.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: browser-harness
-description: "Always use browser-harness for any web interaction: automation, scraping, testing, or site/app work."
+description: "Control a real browser via CDP: clicking, typing, navigation, logged-in sessions, JS-rendered or bot-protected pages. Not for plain HTTP fetches of public content - use curl for those."
 ---
 
 # browser-harness
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_skill.py b/tests/unit/test_skill.py
index 74eb65cf..e4ab6685 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_skill.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_skill.py
@@ -31,5 +31,5 @@ def test_packaged_skill_frontmatter_is_valid_simple_yaml():
 
     assert metadata == {
         "name": "browser-harness",
-        "description": "Always use browser-harness for any web interaction: automation, scraping, testing, or site/app work.",
+        "description": "Control a real browser via CDP: clicking, typing, navigation, logged-in sessions, JS-rendered or bot-protected pages. Not for plain HTTP fetches of public content - use curl for those.",
     }