diff --git a/docs/source/process_data/version_pipelines.md b/docs/source/process_data/version_pipelines.md
index 5b207d9..5899d35 100644
--- a/docs/source/process_data/version_pipelines.md
+++ b/docs/source/process_data/version_pipelines.md
@@ -11,10 +11,13 @@ Core data processing pipelines MUST adopt [semantic versioning](https://semver.o
 
 The pipeline's name and semantic version MUST be stored in aind-data-schema [Processing](https://github.com/AllenNeuralDynamics/aind-data-schema/blob/dev/src/aind_data_schema/core/processing.py#L970) metadata at the top level of the results.
 
-The pipeline's name and semantic version MUST be stored in the pipeline repository and easily accessible to pipeline code. We recommend a `.env` file containing `PIPELINE_VERSION`, `PIPELINE_NAME`, and `PIPELINE_URL` variables. These environment variables can be pulled using standard tools such as `os` and added to the `aind-data-schema` `Processing` core object for proper documentation. Specifically, the following fields of the `Processing` object should be populated with these enironment variables:
+The pipeline's name and semantic version MUST be stored in the pipeline repository and easily accessible to pipeline code. We recommend a `.env` file containing `PIPELINE_VERSION`, `PIPELINE_NAME`, and `PIPELINE_URL` variables. These environment variables can be pulled using standard tools such as `os` and added to the `aind-data-schema` `Processing` core object for proper documentation. Specifically, the following fields of the `Processing` object should be populated with these environment variables:
 
-`Processing.pipeline_version=os.getenv("PIPELINE_VERSION", "No version reported.")`
+`Processing.pipeline_version=os.getenv("PIPELINE_VERSION", "No pipeline version reported.")`
 `Processing.pipeline_url=os.getenv("PIPELINE_URL", "No pipeline URL reported.")`
+`Processing.pipeline_name=os.getenv("PIPELINE_NAME", "No pipeline name reported.")`
+
+> **Note:** [`aind-metadata-manager>=0.1.3`](https://github.com/AllenNeuralDynamics/aind-metadata-manager) enforces that all three pipeline fields are provided — either via CLI arguments or environment variables. If a value is missing, the pipeline will fail with a clear error message rather than falling back to a placeholder default.
 
 The pipeline repository and the repositories of all individual capsules MUST be public on GitHub.