diff --git a/cmake/XrplDocs.cmake b/cmake/XrplDocs.cmake
index 7b3e9b3b30..6f81dcfd5f 100644
--- a/cmake/XrplDocs.cmake
+++ b/cmake/XrplDocs.cmake
@@ -27,8 +27,12 @@ file(
     src/*.cpp
     src/*.md
     Builds/*.md
-    *.md
 )
+# Add only top-level .md files (README, CONTRIBUTING, etc.) without
+# recursing into dot-directories like .claude/ whose files are not
+# valid Doxygen/CMake sources.
+file(GLOB doxygen_top_md CONFIGURE_DEPENDS "*.md")
+list(APPEND doxygen_input ${doxygen_top_md})
 list(APPEND doxygen_input external/README.md)
 set(dependencies "${doxygen_input}" "${doxyfile}")
 
diff --git a/src/test/telemetry/MetricsRegistry_test.cpp b/src/test/telemetry/MetricsRegistry_test.cpp
index 83b504671c..6b0b02cfce 100644
--- a/src/test/telemetry/MetricsRegistry_test.cpp
+++ b/src/test/telemetry/MetricsRegistry_test.cpp
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ public:
     }
 };
 
-BEAST_DEFINE_TESTSUITE(MetricsRegistry, telemetry, ripple);
+BEAST_DEFINE_TESTSUITE(MetricsRegistry, telemetry, xrpl);
 
 }  // namespace test
 }  // namespace xrpl
diff --git a/src/tests/libxrpl/CMakeLists.txt b/src/tests/libxrpl/CMakeLists.txt
index 2c2bd64acb..80a8599935 100644
--- a/src/tests/libxrpl/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/tests/libxrpl/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ endif()
 xrpl_add_test(telemetry)
 target_link_libraries(xrpl.test.telemetry PRIVATE xrpl.imports.test)
 target_include_directories(xrpl.test.telemetry PRIVATE ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src)
+# ValidationTracker lives in xrpld but has no OTel SDK dependency —
+# compile its .cpp directly so the test can link without all of xrpld.
+target_sources(
+    xrpl.test.telemetry
+    PRIVATE ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/xrpld/telemetry/detail/ValidationTracker.cpp
+)
 if(telemetry)
     target_link_libraries(
         xrpl.test.telemetry