diff --git a/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting.md b/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting.md
index f4efd11bb2..28314ea909 100644
--- a/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting.md
+++ b/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting.md
@@ -456,6 +456,8 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
  it is time to set the User Agent field to fool the server into thinking you
  are one of those browsers.
 
+ By default, curl uses curl/VERSION, such as User-Agent: curl/8.11.0.
+
  To make curl look like Internet Explorer 5 on a Windows 2000 box:
 
     curl --user-agent "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)" [URL]
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/user-agent.md b/docs/cmdline-opts/user-agent.md
index 29b475857a..a24bd28449 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/user-agent.md
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/user-agent.md
@@ -25,3 +25,5 @@ be set with the --header or the --proxy-header options.
 If you give an empty argument to --user-agent (""), it removes the header
 completely from the request. If you prefer a blank header, you can set it to a
 single space (" ").
+
+By default, curl uses curl/VERSION, such as User-Agent: curl/`%VERSION`.