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From: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:30:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [8.3] [docs] improve external plugin documentation (#159431)
 (#159473)

# Backport

This will backport the following commits from `main` to `8.3`:
- [[docs] improve external plugin documentation
(#159431)](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/159431)

<!--- Backport version: 8.9.7 -->

### Questions ?
Please refer to the [Backport tool
documentation](https://github.com/sqren/backport)

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Co-authored-by: Thomas Watson <watson@elastic.co>
---
 docs/developer/plugin/plugin-tooling.asciidoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/developer/plugin/plugin-tooling.asciidoc b/docs/developer/plugin/plugin-tooling.asciidoc
index 0b33a585863a4f..afca932f3d9bc3 100644
--- a/docs/developer/plugin/plugin-tooling.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/developer/plugin/plugin-tooling.asciidoc
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ WARNING: {kib} distributable is not shipped with `@kbn/optimizer` anymore. You n
 
 You can leverage {kib-repo}blob/{branch}/packages/kbn-plugin-helpers[@kbn/plugin-helpers] to build a distributable archive for your plugin.
 The package transpiles the plugin code, adds polyfills, and links necessary js modules in the runtime.
-You don't need to install the `plugin-helpers`: the `package.json` is already pre-configured if you created your plugin with `node scripts/generate_plugin` script.
+You don't need to install the `plugin-helpers` dependency. If you created the plugin using `node scripts/generate_plugin` script, `package.json` is already pre-configured.
 To build your plugin run within your plugin folder:
 ["source","shell"]
 -----------