diff --git a/scripts/README.md b/scripts/README.md
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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ Python 2.7 should cover you.  Virtualenv recommended.
 
 ### Execution
 
+Currently, we don't have direct access to the metadata end-to-end.  This only
+affects the generation of tests.  As a stopgap, we have to define a connection
+to the test Observatory account.
+
 Run automated tests against a hostname:
 
-    (venv) OBS_HOSTNAME=<hostname.cartodb.com> OBS_API_KEY=foobar nosetests autotest.py
+    (venv) OBS_HOSTNAME=<hostname.cartodb.com> OBS_API_KEY=foobar OBS_META_HOSTNAME=<meta hostname> OBS_META_API_KEY=<meta api_key> nosetests scripts/autotest.py