diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index 27474e2a..e5d3d5bd 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ inputs:
   architecture:
     description: 'The target architecture (x86, x64) of the Python interpreter.'
   token:
-    description: Used to pull python distributions from actions/python-versions. Since there's a default, this is typically not supplied by the user.
+    description: The token used to authenticate when to fetching Python distributions from https://github.com/actions/python-versions. When running this action on github.com, the default value is sufficient. When running on GHES, you can pass a personal access token for github.com if you are experiencing rate limiting.
     default: ${{ github.token }}
   cache-dependency-path:
     description: 'Used to specify the path to dependency files. Supports wildcards or a list of file names for caching multiple dependencies.'