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 image::https://travis-ci.org/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-cli.svg?branch=master[Build Status, link=https://travis-ci.org/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-cli]
 
-Spring Boot command line features for
-https://github.com/spring-cloud[Spring Cloud].
+Spring Boot CLI provides http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot[Spring Boot] command line features for
+https://github.com/spring-cloud[Spring Cloud]. You can write Groovy scripts to run Spring Cloud component applications
+(e.g. `@EnableEurekaServer`). You can also easily do things like encryption and decryption to support Spring Cloud
+Config clients with secret configuration values.
 
 
 == Installation
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 $ spring install org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-cli:1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
 ```
 
-=== Encryption and Decryption
-
 IMPORTANT: **Prerequisites:** to use the encryption and decryption features
 you need the full-strength JCE installed in your JVM (it's not there by default).
 You can download the "Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files"