diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index 742549b..373b176 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ inputs:
     description: A comma separated list of status codes that will NOT be retried e.g. "400,500". No effect unless `retries` is set
     default: 400,401,403,404,422 # from https://github.com/octokit/plugin-retry.js/blob/9a2443746c350b3beedec35cf26e197ea318a261/src/index.ts#L14
   base-url:
-    description: The root of the API URL of the GHES instance to which to connect.
+    description: An optional GitHub REST API URL to connect to a different GitHub instance.
     required: false
 outputs:
   result: