diff --git a/Documentation/dev-plugins.txt b/Documentation/dev-plugins.txt
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+Gerrit Code Review - Plugin Development
+=======================================
+
+A plugin in gerrit is tightly coupled code that runs in the same
+JVM as gerrit. It has full access to all gerrit internals. Plugins
+are coupled to a specific major.minor gerrit version.
+
+REQUIREMENTS
+------------
+
+To start development, you may download the sample maven project, which downloads
+the following dependencies;
+
+* gerrit-sdk.jar file that matches the war file you are developing against
+
+
+Manifest
+--------
+
+Plugins need to include the following data in the jar manifest file;
+Gerrit-Plugin = plugin_name
+Gerrit-Module = pkg.class
+
+SSH Commands
+------------
+
+You may develop plugins which provide commands that can be accessed through the SSH interface.
+These commands register themselves as a part of SSH Commands (link).
+
+Each of your plugins commands needs to extend BaseCommand.
+
+Any plugin which implements at least one ssh command needs to also provide a class which extends
+the PluginCommandModule in order to register the ssh command(s) in its configure method which you
+must override.
+
+Registering is done by calling the command(String commandName).to(ClassName<? extends BaseCommand> klass)
+
+GERRIT
+------
+Part of link:index.html[Gerrit Code Review]
diff --git a/gerrit-sshd/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/sshd/commands/PluginCommandModule.java b/gerrit-sshd/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/sshd/commands/PluginCommandModule.java
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+// Copyright (C) 2012 The Android Open Source Project
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package com.google.gerrit.sshd.commands;
+
+import com.google.gerrit.sshd.CommandName;
+import com.google.gerrit.sshd.Commands;
+import com.google.gerrit.sshd.DispatchCommandProvider;
+import com.google.inject.AbstractModule;
+import com.google.inject.binder.LinkedBindingBuilder;
+
+import org.apache.sshd.server.Command;
+
+public abstract class PluginCommandModule extends AbstractModule {
+  private CommandName command;
+
+  public void initSshModule(String pluginName) {
+    command = Commands.named(pluginName);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  protected final void configure() {
+    bind(Commands.key(command)).toProvider(new DispatchCommandProvider(command));
+    configureCmds();
+  }
+
+  protected abstract void configureCmds();
+
+  protected LinkedBindingBuilder<Command> command(String subCmd) {
+    return bind(Commands.key(command, subCmd));
+  }
+}