diff --git a/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml
index 04dffe453c..d3d3196b4f 100644
--- a/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["The Nushell Project Developers"]
-description = "A set of query commands for Nushell"
+description = "CLI-related functionality for Nushell"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MIT"
 name = "nu-cli"
diff --git a/crates/nu-color-config/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-color-config/Cargo.toml
index e10825eacf..406da1c873 100644
--- a/crates/nu-color-config/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-color-config/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["The Nushell Project Developers"]
-description = "A set of query commands for Nushell"
+description = "Color configuration code used by Nushell"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MIT"
 name = "nu-color-config"
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
index 73a551a983..39badd473b 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["The Nushell Project Developers"]
-description = "A set of query commands for Nushell"
+description = "Nushell's built-in commands"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MIT"
 name = "nu-command"
diff --git a/crates/nu-engine/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-engine/Cargo.toml
index 0ef909eef9..6096bab4d3 100644
--- a/crates/nu-engine/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-engine/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["The Nushell Project Developers"]
-description = "A set of query commands for Nushell"
+description = "Nushell's evaluation engine"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MIT"
 name = "nu-engine"
diff --git a/crates/nu-parser/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-parser/Cargo.toml
index 40ca4bc8fd..bfe7cf12a1 100644
--- a/crates/nu-parser/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-parser/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["The Nushell Project Developers"]
-description = "A set of query commands for Nushell"
+description = "Nushell's parser"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MIT"
 name = "nu-parser"
diff --git a/crates/nu-plugin/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-plugin/Cargo.toml
index 35b5141968..028cb1e9b0 100644
--- a/crates/nu-plugin/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-plugin/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["The Nushell Project Developers"]
-description = "A set of query commands for Nushell"
+description = "Functionality for building Nushell plugins"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MIT"
 name = "nu-plugin"
diff --git a/crates/nu-protocol/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-protocol/Cargo.toml
index 0f9fb0b546..9211e0e091 100644
--- a/crates/nu-protocol/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-protocol/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["The Nushell Project Developers"]
-description = "A set of query commands for Nushell"
+description = "Nushell's internal protocols, including its abstract syntax tree"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MIT"
 name = "nu-protocol"
diff --git a/crates/nu_plugin_query/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu_plugin_query/Cargo.toml
index 3db7da3524..764282c6fc 100644
--- a/crates/nu_plugin_query/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu_plugin_query/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["The Nushell Project Developers"]
-description = "A set of query commands for Nushell"
+description = "A Nushell plugin to query JSON, XML, and various web data"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MIT"
 name = "nu_plugin_query"