diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8ca42f2ba587..359516800953 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
     "kbn:watch": "node scripts/kibana --dev --logging.json=false",
     "build:types": "rm -rf ./target/types && tsc --p tsconfig.types.json",
     "docs:acceptApiChanges": "node --max-old-space-size=6144 scripts/check_published_api_changes.js --accept",
-    "kbn:bootstrap": "node scripts/build_ts_refs --project tsconfig.refs.json && node scripts/register_git_hook",
+    "kbn:bootstrap": "node scripts/build_ts_refs && node scripts/register_git_hook",
     "spec_to_console": "node scripts/spec_to_console",
     "storybook": "node scripts/storybook"
   },
diff --git a/src/dev/typescript/build_refs.ts b/src/dev/typescript/build_refs.ts
index de006bd674e8..2cc828311195 100644
--- a/src/dev/typescript/build_refs.ts
+++ b/src/dev/typescript/build_refs.ts
@@ -38,17 +38,11 @@ async function buildRefs(log: ToolingLog, projectPath: string) {
 
 export async function runBuildRefs() {
   run(
-    async ({ log, flags }) => {
-      await buildRefs(log, flags.project as string);
+    async ({ log }) => {
+      await buildAllRefs(log);
     },
     {
       description: 'Build TypeScript projects',
-      flags: {
-        string: ['project'],
-        help: `
---project          Required, path to the tsconfig.refs.file
-        `,
-      },
     }
   );
 }
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index fb57936248cf..cf112b26a2cb 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
     "src/**/__fixtures__/**/*",
     "src/test_utils/**/*",
     "src/core/**/*",
-     "src/plugins/kibana_utils/**/*",
-     "src/plugins/kibana_react/**/*"
+    "src/plugins/kibana_utils/**/*",
+    "src/plugins/kibana_react/**/*"
     // In the build we actually exclude **/public/**/* from this config so that
     // we can run the TSC on both this and the .browser version of this config
     // file, but if we did it during development IDEs would not be able to find
diff --git a/x-pack/package.json b/x-pack/package.json
index 33ad445a9fe1..6cf8eee0e182 100644
--- a/x-pack/package.json
+++ b/x-pack/package.json
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   "license": "Elastic-License",
   "scripts": {
     "kbn": "node ../scripts/kbn",
-    "kbn:bootstrap": "node ../scripts/build_ts_refs --project tsconfig.refs.json && node plugins/canvas/scripts/storybook --clean",
+    "kbn:bootstrap": "node plugins/canvas/scripts/storybook --clean",
     "start": "node ../scripts/kibana --dev",
     "build": "gulp build",
     "testonly": "echo 'Deprecated, use `yarn test`' && gulp test",