The Salesforce CLI core plug-ins provide commands and functionality to meet common needs .If you need commands for specific need (extract metadata in excel , list all the custom fields , layouts and process of an object, generate test data and so on) , one can define and build custom commands using salesforce CLI plugin generator .In this session , we will demonstrate how to design, build and release a custom cli plugin to extract metadata of an object (object model ,layouts and process info) in a readable format