diff --git a/shell/README.md b/shell/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bc908d8ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shell/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Makes available in Odoo 8 the `shell` server command available for Odoo 9.
+
+To have this feature available this module just need to be in the
+addons path. To use it, in a terminal window run:
+
+    $ ./odoo.py shell -d <dbname>
+
+This will initialize a server instance and then jump into a Pyhton
+interactive shell, with full access to the Odoo API.
+
+Example session:
+
+    >>> self
+    res.users(1,)
+    >>> self.name
+    u'Administrator'
+    >>> self._name
+    'res.users'
+    >>> self.env
+    <openerp.api.Environment object at 0xb3f4f52c>
+    >>> self.env['res.partner'].search([('name', 'like', 'Ag')])
+    res.partner(7, 51)
diff --git a/shell/__openerp__.py b/shell/__openerp__.py
index 5a9597430..bc8b78852 100644
--- a/shell/__openerp__.py
+++ b/shell/__openerp__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     'name': 'Shell command backport',
-    'description': 'Backport of the v9 shell CLI command.',
+    'summary': 'Backport of the v9 shell CLI command.',
     'author': 'Daniel Reis',
     'version': '1.0',
 }