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 # Cuckoo
 
-Cuckoo, like the bird in the clock, is a very simple command line tool that
-polls [Consul][consul] for a count of healthy instances of a service and posts
-it to [AWS CloudWatch][cloudwatch] as a metric.
+Cuckoo, like the bird in the clock, is a very simple application that polls
+[Consul][consul] for a count of healthy instances of a service and posts it to
+[AWS CloudWatch][cloudwatch] as a metric.
 
 ## Usage