diff --git a/.changeset/cli-package-publish-help-local-dev-example.md b/.changeset/cli-package-publish-help-local-dev-example.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6d22c35109
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/cli-package-publish-help-local-dev-example.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+---
+"@objectstack/cli": patch
+---
+
+`os package publish --help` no longer points its local-dev example at a directory this repo does not have.
+
+The last line of the command's `EXAMPLES` block read:
+
+```
+$ OS_CLOUD_URL=http://localhost:4000 os package publish    # local dev (apps/cloud)
+```
+
+`apps/cloud` was deleted from this repository — the reference cloud host now lives in `objectstack-ai/cloud` — so the parenthetical sent a reader to a path that is not in the tree they cloned. This is help text, not a source comment: it is printed verbatim to anyone who runs the command.
+
+The parenthetical is dropped rather than re-pointed at the other repo. The example is about `OS_CLOUD_URL` overriding the control-plane URL, which the `--server` flag already documents in the same output; which directory happens to serve `localhost:4000` was never part of what the example teaches, and a `--help` reader is not looking for a file in a monorepo. `# local dev` alone carries it, and it now matches how the CLI reference docs have long published the same example.
+
+No behaviour changes: `examples` is a static help string, and no flag, argument, default or exit code moves.
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/commands/package/publish.ts b/packages/cli/src/commands/package/publish.ts
index c171e26f41..172145c1c5 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/commands/package/publish.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/commands/package/publish.ts
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ export default class PackagePublish extends Command {
     '$ os package publish --manifest-id com.acme.crm --version 1.2.0',
     '$ os package publish --env env_abc123 --install',
     '$ os package publish dist/objectstack.json --visibility org --note "first cut"',
-    '$ OS_CLOUD_URL=http://localhost:4000 os package publish    # local dev (apps/cloud)',
+    '$ OS_CLOUD_URL=http://localhost:4000 os package publish    # local dev',
   ];
 
   static override args = {