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Add Manual Plugin Install Instructions

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
66/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli, documentation

Research direction

Start by reading the CLI’s existing plugin documentation and install entry points to learn where plugins are stored and how manual installation works. Write a document explaining how to install CLI plugins to disk, and consider it done when the steps are clear enough to follow.

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Description

Write a document for how to manually install CLI plugins to disk

Dominant language
Go
Stars
28
Forks
16
Avg merge
2d 14h
Merged PRs (30d)
65

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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