-# Atom Shell
+## Overview
-Native layer for the [Atom editor](https://github.com/atom/atom).
+Atom Shell is a cross-platform desktop application shell. It provides a way to
+build native like applications with [node.js](http://nodejs.org) and web page
+engine of [Chromium](http://www.chromium.org).
-## Features
+It is powering the [Atom editor](https://github.com/atom/atom).
-* Write desktop applications with web techniques
-* Support built-in and third-party modules of node.js
-* Support native node.js modules
-* Extended built-in modules for desktop programming
-* JavaScript on browser side
-* Easy API for cross-process communication
+## Downloads
-## Usage & Development
+Prebuilt binaries of atom-shell for Linux, Window and Mac could be found in the
+[releases](https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/releases) page, new releases would
+also be published there.
-See the docs [here](https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/tree/master/docs).
+## Documents
-## License
-
-See the [`LICENSE`](LICENSE) file.
+Visist the [docs](https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/tree/master/docs) in the
+repository for usage guides and API references, it also includes how to build
+and contribute to atom-shell.