diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
index a25f5145cac835..7a656fcb091daa 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -870,6 +870,11 @@ ABC hierarchy::
 
     .. versionadded:: 3.9
 
+    .. abstractmethod:: files()
+
+       Returns a :class:`importlib.abc.Traversable` object for the loaded
+       package.
+
 
 :mod:`importlib.resources` -- Resources
 ---------------------------------------
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-10-22-21-57-42.bpo-45516.7_RMEX.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-10-22-21-57-42.bpo-45516.7_RMEX.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..6295dd04b626ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-10-22-21-57-42.bpo-45516.7_RMEX.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Add protocol description to the :class:`importlib.abc.TraversableResources`
+documentation.