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 ### Documentation
 
-A `README.md` is required for each module, and CI will automatically regenerate it using the [tf-docs github action](https://github.com/terraform-docs/gh-actions).
+A `README.md` is required for each module, and CI will automatically regenerate it using the [tf-docs github action](https://github.com/terraform-docs/gh-actions) if your module has a `.terraform-docs.yml`.
 To include non-generated content in your README, place it outside the `<!-- BEGIN_TF_DOCS -->` block.
 
 ## Using these modules