From b0732102f8c18a4b4ae928cd213e78495efb3924 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Liam Thompson <liam.thompson@elastic.co>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 13:59:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add note to redirect 9.0+ local docs builders in readme

Added a note about the repo's relevance to pre-9.0 Elastic docs and provided a link for building markdown docs for versions 9.0+.

Folks land here and get confused about the build system.
---
 README.asciidoc | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index b0ebc68c53f8c..7988e1f8edc00 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 = Docs HOWTO
 
+[IMPORTANT]  
+====
+This repo pertains to the asciidoc system used for pre-9.0 Elastic docs.
+To build the markdown docs for versions 9.0+, refer to https://elastic.github.io/docs-builder/contribute/locally/.
+====
+
 include::{docs-root}/shared/versions/stack/current.asciidoc[]
 include::{docs-root}/shared/attributes.asciidoc[]