diff --git a/core/tracing/hooks.go b/core/tracing/hooks.go
index 94b32d9b71..4002b57207 100644
--- a/core/tracing/hooks.go
+++ b/core/tracing/hooks.go
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@
 // You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 // along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
+// Package tracing defines hooks for 'live tracing' of block processing and transaction
+// execution. Here we define the low-level [Hooks] object that carries hooks which are
+// invoked by the go-ethereum core at various points in the state transition.
+//
+// To create a tracer that can be invoked with Geth, you need to register it using
+// [github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/eth/tracers.LiveDirectory.Register].
+//
+// See https://geth.ethereum.org/docs/developers/evm-tracing/live-tracing for a tutorial.
 package tracing
 
 import (