# nsx module describe

Describe one module from the packaged or app-effective registry.

## Usage

```text
nsx module describe [-h] [--app-dir APP_DIR] [--json] module
```

## Arguments

| Option | Value | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| module | value | required | Module name to describe |

## Options

| Option | Value | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| --app-dir APP_DIR | value | optional | Optional app directory containing nsx.yml; when provided, use the app-effective registry |
| --json | flag | optional | Emit machine-readable JSON instead of human-readable text |

`-v/--verbose`, `-q/--quiet` are parsed by `nsx` itself, so they go before the command name, as `nsx -v module describe`.