diff --git a/.changes/cli.rs-plugin-template-include-types.md b/.changes/cli.rs-plugin-template-include-types.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aa9233462
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/cli.rs-plugin-template-include-types.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"cli.rs": patch
+---
+
+Adds `types` field to the template package.json, so that generated typescript declarations get picked up correctly.
diff --git a/tooling/cli.rs/templates/plugin/with-api/package.json b/tooling/cli.rs/templates/plugin/with-api/package.json
index 29a1db27b..485317f12 100644
--- a/tooling/cli.rs/templates/plugin/with-api/package.json
+++ b/tooling/cli.rs/templates/plugin/with-api/package.json
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   "description": "",
   "browser": "webview-dist/index.js",
   "main": "webview-dist/index.js",
+  "types": "webview-dist/index.d.ts",
   "scripts": {
     "build": "rollup -c ./webview-src/rollup.config.js",
     "prepublishOnly": "yarn build",