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# Code Your Plugin

This section provides reference information for customizing your plugin.

To get started, we provide several commands in the [plugin-dev](https://github.com/salesforcecli/plugin-dev) plugin to generate your own plugin, commands, flags, and more. See the [Get Started](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/salesforce-cli-plugin/get-started/get-started.md) section for examples. The `plugin-dev` plugin is "just in time" (JIT), which means that Salesforce CLI installs it the first time you run one of its commands.

Here are some useful commands:

- `dev generate plugin`: Generate the files for a plugin. Includes a sample `hello world` command.
- `dev generate command`: Generate the initial files for a new command.
- `dev generate flag`: Update existing command files with code for a new flag.
- `dev audit messages` : Audit messages in a plugin's messages directory to locate unused messages and missing messages that have references in source code.
- `dev convert messages` : Convert a .json messages file into Markdown.

Run `sf plugins inspect dev` to get detailed information about the plugin, including all its commands. Run a particular command with `--help` to see more information.