diff --git a/workflow-templates/assets/cobra/docsgen/main.go b/workflow-templates/assets/cobra/docsgen/main.go
index f50be3f0..08072899 100644
--- a/workflow-templates/assets/cobra/docsgen/main.go
+++ b/workflow-templates/assets/cobra/docsgen/main.go
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ package main
 import (
 	"os"
 
-	// TODO: Replace CLI_PACKAGE_NAME with the project's Cobra CLI package name
-	"CLI_PACKAGE_NAME"
+	// TODO: Replace CLI_PACKAGE_NAME with the project's Cobra CLI package import path
+	cli "CLI_PACKAGE_NAME"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra/doc"
 )
 
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ func main() {
 
 	os.MkdirAll(os.Args[1], 0755) // Create the output folder if it doesn't already exist
 
-	cli := cli.Root()
+	// TODO: Replace `cli.NewCommand()` with the project's Cobra CLI package function for command root
+	cli := cli.NewCommand()
 	cli.DisableAutoGenTag = true // Disable addition of auto-generated date stamp
 	err := doc.GenMarkdownTree(cli, os.Args[1])
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/workflow-templates/deploy-cobra-mkdocs-versioned-poetry.md b/workflow-templates/deploy-cobra-mkdocs-versioned-poetry.md
index b59b2ba8..33b90589 100644
--- a/workflow-templates/deploy-cobra-mkdocs-versioned-poetry.md
+++ b/workflow-templates/deploy-cobra-mkdocs-versioned-poetry.md
@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ If there are any additional documentation generation tasks, add them to the `doc
 #### `docsgen`
 
 - [`go.mod`](assets/cobra/docsgen/go.mod) - replace `MODULE_NAME` with the project's module name.
-- [`main.go`](assets/cobra/docsgen/main.go) - replace `CLI_PACKAGE_NAME` with the project's Cobra CLI package name
+- [`main.go`](assets/cobra/docsgen/main.go)
+  - replace `CLI_PACKAGE_NAME` with the project's Cobra CLI package name
+  - replace `cli.NewCommand()` with the project's Cobra CLI package function for [command root](https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/master/user_guide.md#create-rootcmd) generation
 
 Run the following command from the `docsgen/` folder: