diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8fe1d6e..9482316 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ Running this again will replace the original index and delete the old index in a
 
 A lock will be held in the parent directory to prevent concurrent executions.
 
+## Features
+
+- **PEP 503** simple repository layout (per-project `index.html` pages).
+- **PEP 658 / PEP 714** core metadata sidecars: each wheel gets a `<wheel>.metadata`
+  file alongside it, and the anchor tag advertises it via both `data-core-metadata`
+  (PEP 714) and `data-dist-info-metadata` (PEP 658) so installers like pip can
+  fetch dependency metadata without downloading the wheel.
+- Wheel `Requires-Python` is exposed via `data-requires-python`.
+- Cache (`cache.json`) avoids re-reading unchanged wheels on subsequent runs.
+
 ## Example
 
 For image builds
diff --git a/docs/usage.md b/docs/usage.md
index 08e834d..1c6a13b 100644
--- a/docs/usage.md
+++ b/docs/usage.md
@@ -1,9 +1,59 @@
 # Usage
 
-To use this package, import it:
+`index-503` generates a [PEP 503](https://peps.python.org/pep-0503/) "simple"
+repository index from a directory of wheel files.
 
-```python
-import index_503
+## Command line
+
+Point `index-503` at a directory that contains `.whl` files:
+
+```bash
+index-503 musllinux
+```
+
+This produces a sibling directory `musllinux-index/` containing:
+
+- A top-level `index.html` listing every project found.
+- A per-project `<name>/index.html` listing every wheel for that project.
+- A `<wheel>.metadata` sidecar for every wheel (see _Generated metadata_ below).
+- A `cache.json` used to skip unchanged wheels on subsequent runs.
+
+The wheels themselves are exposed via a symlink, so the original wheel
+directory is never modified. A re-run swaps the index atomically and a
+lock in the parent directory prevents concurrent executions.
+
+## Installing from the index
+
+For image builds (single index):
+
+```bash
+pip install --only-binary=:all: \
+    --index-url "https://wheels.example.org/musllinux-index/" \
+    -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+For runtime installs that should fall back to PyPI:
+
+```bash
+pip install --only-binary=:all: \
+    --extra-index-url "https://wheels.example.org/musllinux-index/" \
+    -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
-TODO: Document usage
+`pip` 23.2 or newer is required — see
+[pypa/pip#12038](https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12038).
+
+## Generated metadata
+
+`index-503` produces more than the bare PEP 503 layout — every wheel gets a
+[PEP 658](https://peps.python.org/pep-0658/) /
+[PEP 714](https://peps.python.org/pep-0714/) core-metadata sidecar:
+
+- The wheel's `METADATA` file is extracted to `<wheel-filename>.metadata`.
+- The anchor tag for each wheel advertises that sidecar with both
+  `data-core-metadata="sha256=..."` (PEP 714, current) and
+  `data-dist-info-metadata="sha256=..."` (PEP 658, legacy alias).
+- The wheel's `Requires-Python` value is exposed via `data-requires-python`.
+
+This lets resolvers like `pip` fetch dependency metadata without downloading
+the full wheel, which makes resolution dramatically faster on slow links.
diff --git a/src/index_503/wheel_file.py b/src/index_503/wheel_file.py
index 4c1253e..aadb8df 100644
--- a/src/index_503/wheel_file.py
+++ b/src/index_503/wheel_file.py
@@ -99,8 +99,14 @@ def as_anchor(self, page: Airium, base_url: Union[str, URL] = "/") -> None:
 
         if self.requires_python is not None:
             kwargs["data-requires-python"] = escape(self.requires_python)
-        elif self.metadata_hash is not None:
-            kwargs["data-dist-info-metadata"] = f"{HASH_FORMAT}={self.metadata_hash}"
+        if self.metadata_hash is not None:
+            metadata_value = (
+                "true"
+                if self.metadata_hash is True
+                else f"{HASH_FORMAT}={self.metadata_hash}"
+            )
+            kwargs["data-core-metadata"] = metadata_value
+            kwargs["data-dist-info-metadata"] = metadata_value
 
         with page.a(**kwargs):
             page(posixpath.basename(self.filename))
diff --git a/tests/test_index.py b/tests/test_index.py
index e6bdaef..424a686 100644
--- a/tests/test_index.py
+++ b/tests/test_index.py
@@ -133,6 +133,24 @@ def test_make_index_end_to_end(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
             'data-dist-info-metadata="sha256=a6e73c9cf4f9469c5b308830afbc000bb806df5d894598dd499737e94974c27c"'
             in co2signal_index_html
         )
+        # PEP-714 alias for the same metadata hash.
+        assert (
+            'data-core-metadata="sha256=a6e73c9cf4f9469c5b308830afbc000bb806df5d894598dd499737e94974c27c"'
+            in co2signal_index_html
+        )
+
+        # Regression: a wheel that declares Requires-Python must still
+        # advertise its PEP-658 / PEP-714 metadata sidecar.
+        bleak_index_html = origin_path_index.joinpath("bleak", "index.html").read_text()
+        assert 'data-requires-python="&gt;=3.7,&lt;4.0"' in bleak_index_html
+        assert (
+            'data-dist-info-metadata="sha256=b826a4a16ef36e8a2165b16cec9b46d2956930a66046e977a499a418388e33d1"'
+            in bleak_index_html
+        )
+        assert (
+            'data-core-metadata="sha256=b826a4a16ef36e8a2165b16cec9b46d2956930a66046e977a499a418388e33d1"'
+            in bleak_index_html
+        )
 
         bleak_metadata_path = origin_path_index.joinpath(
             "bleak-0.17.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata"