diff --git a/docs/features/software-templates/extending/create-your-own-templater.md b/docs/features/software-templates/extending/create-your-own-templater.md
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--- a/docs/features/software-templates/extending/create-your-own-templater.md
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@@ -86,10 +86,11 @@ follows:
 
 _note_ Currently the templaters that we provide are basically Docker action
 containers that are run on top of the skeleton folder. This keeps dependencies
-to a minimal for running backstage scaffolder, but you don't /have/ to use
-Docker. You could create your own templater that spins up an EC2 instance and
-downloads the folder and does everything using an AMI if you want. It's entirely
-up to you!
+to a minimum for running backstage scaffolder, but you don't _have_ to use
+Docker. You can `pip install cookiecutter` to run it locally in your backend.
+You could create your own templater that spins up an EC2 instance and downloads
+the folder and does everything using an AMI if you want. It's entirely up to
+you!
 
 Now it's up to you to implement the `run` function, and then return a
 `TemplaterRunResult` which is `{ resultDir: string }`.