diff --git a/src/codemodder/__main__.py b/src/codemodder/__main__.py
index 12696833..6d2233e8 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/__main__.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/__main__.py
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ def compile_results(codemods):
             continue
         data = {
             "codemod": f"pixee:python/{name}",
-            "summary": codemod_kls.METADATA.DESCRIPTION,
+            "summary": codemod_kls.SUMMARY,
+            "description": codemod_kls.METADATA.DESCRIPTION,
             "references": [],
             "properties": {},
             "failedFiles": [],
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/api/__init__.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/api/__init__.py
index 9b8d7c2e..52cce15f 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/api/__init__.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/api/__init__.py
@@ -50,6 +50,17 @@ def __init_subclass__(cls):
             # TODO: if we intend to continue to check class-level attributes
             # using this mechanism, we should add checks (or defaults) for
             # NAME, DESCRIPTION, and REVIEW_GUIDANCE here.
+            missing_fields = []
+            for field in ["SUMMARY", "DESCRIPTION", "REVIEW_GUIDANCE"]:
+                try:
+                    assert hasattr(cls, field)
+                except AssertionError:
+                    missing_fields.append(field)
+
+            if missing_fields:
+                raise AssertionError(
+                    f"{cls.__name__} is missing the following fields: {missing_fields}"
+                )
 
             cls.METADATA = CodemodMetadata(
                 cls.DESCRIPTION,  # pylint: disable=no-member
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/base_codemod.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/base_codemod.py
index 5fc2b31e..41d942c6 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/base_codemod.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/base_codemod.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ class CodemodMetadata:
 class BaseCodemod:
     # Implementation borrowed from https://stackoverflow.com/a/45250114
     METADATA: ClassVar[CodemodMetadata] = NotImplemented
+    SUMMARY: ClassVar[str] = NotImplemented
     IS_SEMGREP = False
 
     def __init_subclass__(cls, **kwargs):
@@ -32,8 +33,11 @@ def __init_subclass__(cls, **kwargs):
             # classes will.
             return
 
-        if cls.METADATA is NotImplemented:
-            raise NotImplementedError("You forgot to define METADATA")
+        for attr in ["SUMMARY", "METADATA"]:
+            if getattr(cls, attr) is NotImplemented:
+                raise NotImplementedError(
+                    f"You forgot to define {attr} for {cls.__name__}"
+                )
         for k, v in asdict(cls.METADATA).items():
             if v is NotImplemented:
                 raise NotImplementedError(f"You forgot to define METADATA.{k}")
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/django_debug_flag_on.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/django_debug_flag_on.py
index f281eb0e..adca1909 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/django_debug_flag_on.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/django_debug_flag_on.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class DjangoDebugFlagOn(SemgrepCodemod, Codemod):
         NAME="django-debug-flag-on",
         REVIEW_GUIDANCE=ReviewGuidance.MERGE_AFTER_CURSORY_REVIEW,
     )
-    CHANGE_DESCRIPTION = "Flips django's debug flag to off."
+    SUMMARY = CHANGE_DESCRIPTION = "Flips django's debug flag to off."
     YAML_FILES = [
         "django-debug-flag-on.yaml",
     ]
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/django_session_cookie_secure_off.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/django_session_cookie_secure_off.py
index 00f9d9e6..41b14482 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/django_session_cookie_secure_off.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/django_session_cookie_secure_off.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ class DjangoSessionCookieSecureOff(SemgrepCodemod, Codemod):
         NAME="django-session-cookie-secure-off",
         REVIEW_GUIDANCE=ReviewGuidance.MERGE_AFTER_REVIEW,
     )
+    SUMMARY = "Sets Django's `SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE` flag if off or missing."
     CHANGE_DESCRIPTION = METADATA.DESCRIPTION
     YAML_FILES = [
         "detect-django-settings.yaml",
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/harden_pyyaml.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/harden_pyyaml.py
index 595905ad..0fde850c 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/harden_pyyaml.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/harden_pyyaml.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 class HardenPyyaml(SemgrepCodemod):
     NAME = "harden-pyyaml"
     REVIEW_GUIDANCE = ReviewGuidance.MERGE_WITHOUT_REVIEW
+    SUMMARY = "Use SafeLoader when loading YAML"
     DESCRIPTION = "Ensures all calls to yaml.load use `SafeLoader`."
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/harden_ruamel.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/harden_ruamel.py
index f45729ad..2b12b552 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/harden_ruamel.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/harden_ruamel.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 class HardenRuamel(SemgrepCodemod):
     NAME = "harden-ruamel"
     REVIEW_GUIDANCE = ReviewGuidance.MERGE_WITHOUT_REVIEW
+    SUMMARY = "Use safe YAML loading in ruamel.yaml"
     DESCRIPTION = "Ensures all unsafe calls to ruamel.yaml.YAML use `typ='safe'`."
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/limit_readline.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/limit_readline.py
index 64afc161..e0dc77dc 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/limit_readline.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/limit_readline.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 class LimitReadline(SemgrepCodemod):
     NAME = "limit-readline"
     REVIEW_GUIDANCE = ReviewGuidance.MERGE_AFTER_CURSORY_REVIEW
+    SUMMARY = "Limit the size of readline() calls"
     DESCRIPTION = "Adds a size limit argument to readline() calls."
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/order_imports.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/order_imports.py
index bd7f7520..d5d486f2 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/order_imports.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/order_imports.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ class OrderImports(BaseCodemod, Codemod):
         NAME="order-imports",
         REVIEW_GUIDANCE=ReviewGuidance.MERGE_WITHOUT_REVIEW,
     )
+    SUMMARY = "Formats and orders imports by categories"
     CHANGE_DESCRIPTION = "Ordered and formatted import block below this line"
 
     METADATA_DEPENDENCIES = (PositionProvider,)
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/process_creation_sandbox.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/process_creation_sandbox.py
index 3b4bfe12..b2bbd6f7 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/process_creation_sandbox.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/process_creation_sandbox.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 class ProcessSandbox(SemgrepCodemod):
     NAME = "sandbox-process-creation"
     REVIEW_GUIDANCE = ReviewGuidance.MERGE_AFTER_CURSORY_REVIEW
+    SUMMARY = "Use safe_command library to sandbox process creation."
     DESCRIPTION = (
         "Replaces subprocess.{func} with more secure safe_command library functions."
     )
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/remove_unnecessary_f_str.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/remove_unnecessary_f_str.py
index 8c7e0097..1f993ed7 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/remove_unnecessary_f_str.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/remove_unnecessary_f_str.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 class RemoveUnnecessaryFStr(BaseCodemod, UnnecessaryFormatString):
     NAME = "remove-unnecessary-f-str"
     REVIEW_GUIDANCE = ReviewGuidance.MERGE_WITHOUT_REVIEW
+    SUMMARY = "Remove unnecessary f-strings."
     DESCRIPTION = UnnecessaryFormatString.DESCRIPTION
 
     def __init__(self, codemod_context: CodemodContext, file_context: FileContext):
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/remove_unused_imports.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/remove_unused_imports.py
index 769aa165..0110cb7d 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/remove_unused_imports.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/remove_unused_imports.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ class RemoveUnusedImports(BaseCodemod, Codemod):
         NAME="unused-imports",
         REVIEW_GUIDANCE=ReviewGuidance.MERGE_WITHOUT_REVIEW,
     )
+    SUMMARY = "Remove unused imports from a module."
     CHANGE_DESCRIPTION = "Unused import."
 
     METADATA_DEPENDENCIES = (PositionProvider, ScopeProvider, QualifiedNameProvider)
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/requests_verify.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/requests_verify.py
index bd99693b..c8226f54 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/requests_verify.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/requests_verify.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 class RequestsVerify(SemgrepCodemod):
     NAME = "requests-verify"
     REVIEW_GUIDANCE = ReviewGuidance.MERGE_AFTER_CURSORY_REVIEW
+    SUMMARY = "Verify SSL certificates when making requests."
     DESCRIPTION = (
         "Makes any calls to requests.{func} with `verify=False` to `verify=True`"
     )
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/secure_random.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/secure_random.py
index 5037af46..7aebf862 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/secure_random.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/secure_random.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 class SecureRandom(SemgrepCodemod):
     NAME = "secure-random"
     REVIEW_GUIDANCE = ReviewGuidance.MERGE_WITHOUT_REVIEW
+    SUMMARY = "Use secrets.SystemRandom() instead of random"
     DESCRIPTION = "Replaces random.{func} with more secure secrets library functions."
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/tempfile_mktemp.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/tempfile_mktemp.py
index a2105c96..cd9b59fa 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/tempfile_mktemp.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/tempfile_mktemp.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 class TempfileMktemp(SemgrepCodemod):
     NAME = "secure-tempfile"
     REVIEW_GUIDANCE = ReviewGuidance.MERGE_WITHOUT_REVIEW
+    SUMMARY = "Use `tempfile.mkstemp` instead of `tempfile.mktemp`."
     DESCRIPTION = "Replaces `tempfile.mktemp` with `tempfile.mkstemp`."
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/upgrade_sslcontext_minimum_version.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/upgrade_sslcontext_minimum_version.py
index f23aaec6..cd8763df 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/upgrade_sslcontext_minimum_version.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/upgrade_sslcontext_minimum_version.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 class UpgradeSSLContextMinimumVersion(SemgrepCodemod):
     NAME = "upgrade-sslcontext-minimum-version"
     REVIEW_GUIDANCE = ReviewGuidance.MERGE_WITHOUT_REVIEW
+    SUMMARY = "Upgrade minimum SSL/TLS version for SSLContext"
     DESCRIPTION = "Replaces minimum SSL/TLS version for SSLContext"
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/upgrade_sslcontext_tls.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/upgrade_sslcontext_tls.py
index f2e9fca6..91f4a188 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/upgrade_sslcontext_tls.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/upgrade_sslcontext_tls.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ class UpgradeSSLContextTLS(SemgrepCodemod, BaseTransformer):
         NAME="upgrade-sslcontext-tls",
         REVIEW_GUIDANCE=ReviewGuidance.MERGE_AFTER_CURSORY_REVIEW,
     )
+    SUMMARY = "Replaces known insecure TLS/SSL protocol versions in SSLContext with secure ones"
     CHANGE_DESCRIPTION = "Upgrade to use a safe version of TLS in SSLContext"
     YAML_FILES = [
         "upgrade_sslcontext_tls.yaml",
diff --git a/src/codemodder/codemods/url_sandbox.py b/src/codemodder/codemods/url_sandbox.py
index 93f5e6a8..1bdba767 100644
--- a/src/codemodder/codemods/url_sandbox.py
+++ b/src/codemodder/codemods/url_sandbox.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ class UrlSandbox(SemgrepCodemod, Codemod):
         NAME="url-sandbox",
         REVIEW_GUIDANCE=ReviewGuidance.MERGE_AFTER_CURSORY_REVIEW,
     )
+    SUMMARY = "Ensures that requests are made safely."
     CHANGE_DESCRIPTION = "Switch use of requests for security.safe_requests"
     YAML_FILES = [
         "sandbox_url_creation.yaml",
diff --git a/tests/codemods/test_base_codemod.py b/tests/codemods/test_base_codemod.py
index ce2b06ef..03861bf6 100644
--- a/tests/codemods/test_base_codemod.py
+++ b/tests/codemods/test_base_codemod.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ class DoNothingCodemod(SemgrepCodemod, Codemod):
         NAME="do-nothing",
         REVIEW_GUIDANCE=ReviewGuidance.MERGE_WITHOUT_REVIEW,
     )
+    SUMMARY = "An identity codemod for testing purposes."
     YAML_FILES = []
 
     def __init__(self, context: CodemodContext, results_by_id):