Document how to create a plugin

Using the new CommandDisplayNameAnnotation annotation introduced in
Cobra 1.8.0.
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Cobra makes use of the shell-completion system to define a framework allowing you to provide Active Help to your users.
Active Help are messages (hints, warnings, etc) printed as the program is being used.
Read more about it in [Active Help](active_help.md).
## Creating a plugin
When creating a plugin for tools like *kubectl*, the executable is named
`kubectl-myplugin`, but it is used as `kubectl myplugin`. To fix help
messages and completions, annotate the root command with the
`cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation` annotation.
### Example kubectl plugin
```go
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)
func main() {
rootCmd := &cobra.Command{
Use: "kubectl-myplugin",
Annotations: map[string]string{
cobra.CommandDisplayNameAnnotation: "kubectl myplugin",
},
}
subCmd := &cobra.Command{
Use: "subcmd",
Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
fmt.Println("kubectl myplugin subcmd")
},
}
rootCmd.AddCommand(subCmd)
rootCmd.Execute()
}
```
Example run as a kubectl plugin:
```
$ kubectl myplugin
Usage:
kubectl myplugin [command]
Available Commands:
completion Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
help Help about any command
subcmd
Flags:
-h, --help help for kubectl myplugin
Use "kubectl myplugin [command] --help" for more information about a command.
```