diff --git a/packages/osd-plugin-helpers/src/cli.ts b/packages/osd-plugin-helpers/src/cli.ts
index 23d5273b5d1e..158e2578bde9 100644
--- a/packages/osd-plugin-helpers/src/cli.ts
+++ b/packages/osd-plugin-helpers/src/cli.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 
 import Path from 'path';
 
-import semver from 'semver';
 import { RunWithCommands, createFlagError, createFailError } from '@osd/dev-utils';
 
 import { findOpenSearchDashboardsJson } from './find_opensearch_dashboards_json';
@@ -94,18 +93,6 @@ export function runCli() {
           plugin
         );
 
-        if (semver.satisfies(opensearchDashboardsVersion, '<7.9')) {
-          log.error(
-            'These tools are not designed to work with version before 7.9, please checkout an earlier version of OpenSearch Dashboards to build your plugin'
-          );
-          process.exit(1);
-        }
-        if (semver.satisfies(opensearchDashboardsVersion, '~7.9.0')) {
-          log.warning(
-            'These tools might work with 7.9 versions, but there are known workarounds required. See https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/82466 for more info'
-          );
-        }
-
         const sourceDir = plugin.directory;
         const buildDir = Path.resolve(
           plugin.directory,