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@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+    "MD013": false,
+    "MD033": false
+}
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diff --git a/services/metrics-calculator/README.md b/services/metrics-calculator/README.md
index 25fce04..a1f6fc4 100644
--- a/services/metrics-calculator/README.md
+++ b/services/metrics-calculator/README.md
@@ -16,6 +16,20 @@ Configuration is achieved via the following environment variables:
 | NATIONAL_METRICS_S3_PATH_PARAM_NAME      | String that is the AWS SSM Parameter Name where the National Metrics S3 path will be outputted to |
 | PRACTICE_METRICS_S3_PATH_PARAM_NAME      | String that is the AWS SSM Parameter Name where the Practice Metrics S3 path will be outputted to |
 
+
+### Running the metrics-calculator manually for testing 
+
+The Metrics-calculator service is ran within the dashboard pipeline state-machine, in order to trigger this manually for testing you will need to navigate in the aws
+console to step-functions/statemachines/dashboard-pipeline and trigger an execution with the following input 
+```json 
+{
+  "SKIP_METRICS": true,
+  "time": "2026-02-16"
+}
+```
+Following the execution of this you will see the metrics-calculator task running before either the validate-metrics lambda is called if it is successful or the GP2GP Dashboard
+Alert lambda is called on a failure.
+
 ## Developing
 
 Common development workflows are defined in the `tasks` script.
diff --git a/services/ods-downloader/README.md b/services/ods-downloader/README.md
index 5477f93..2ec8239 100644
--- a/services/ods-downloader/README.md
+++ b/services/ods-downloader/README.md
@@ -122,3 +122,17 @@ Perform the following steps:
 If you see the below notice when trying to activate the python virtual environment, run `deactivate` before trying again.
 
 > Courtesy Notice: Pipenv found itself running within a virtual environment, so it will automatically use that environment, instead of creating its own for any project. You can set PIPENV_IGNORE_VIRTUALENVS=1 to force pipenv to ignore that environment and create its own instead. You can set PIPENV_VERBOSITY=-1 to suppress this warning.
+
+### Running the ods-downloader pipeline manually for testing
+
+1. Send the asidLookup.csv to the gp-registrations-data email address [Manually triggering store_asid_lookup_lambda](https://github.com/NHSDigital/gp2gp-reporting-infrastructure/blob/main/lambdas/store_asid_lookup/README.md).
+1. The final stages of the Store-asid-lookup-lambda will then trigger the Ods-Downloader pipeline.
+1. It will then read from the `prm-gp2gp-asid-lookup-{env}` which is populated by the store asid lookup lambda. It will then grab the relevant practices and organisation metadata.
+1. It will then write the Organisation metadata to the output bucket `prm-gp2gp-ods-metadata-{env}/{version}/{year}/{month}`
+1. If these operations are run successfully then the pipelines execution will return as a success.
+1. NOTE: If you have already populated the S3 lookup bucket then you may retrigger the pipeline with this execution input:
+```json
+    {
+      "time": "YYYY-MM-01T00:00:00Z"
+    }
+```
diff --git a/services/reports-generator/README.md b/services/reports-generator/README.md
index 1396f89..27f8316 100644
--- a/services/reports-generator/README.md
+++ b/services/reports-generator/README.md
@@ -89,6 +89,53 @@ Common development workflows are defined in the `tasks` script.
 
 This project is written in Python 3.14.
 
+### Running the reports-generator manually for testing
+
+> Prior to running these tests, inform Richard Sellers that some additional test emails will be received.
+
+There are 3 different paths that can be taken after triggering this pipeline:
+
+- Daily/weekly reporting window
+- Monthly reporting window
+- Custom reporting window
+
+Daily
+
+```json
+{
+  "ALERT_ENABLED": "true",
+  "CONVERSATION_CUTOFF_DAYS": "0",
+  "NUMBER_OF_DAYS": "1",
+  "REPORT_NAME": "TRANSFER_OUTCOMES_PER_SUPPLIER_PATHWAY",
+  "SEND_EMAIL_NOTIFICATION": "true"
+}
+```
+
+Monthly
+
+```json
+{
+  "ALERT_ENABLED": "true",
+  "CONVERSATION_CUTOFF_DAYS": "0",
+  "NUMBER_OF_MONTHS": "1",
+  "REPORT_NAME": "TRANSFER_OUTCOMES_PER_SUPPLIER_PATHWAY",
+  "SEND_EMAIL_NOTIFICATION": "true"
+}
+```
+
+Custom
+
+```json
+{
+  "ALERT_ENABLED": "true",
+  "CONVERSATION_CUTOFF_DAYS": "0",
+  "START_DATETIME": "2024-07-13T00:00Z",
+  "END_DATETIME": "2024-07-14T00:00Z",
+  "REPORT_NAME": "TRANSFER_OUTCOMES_PER_SUPPLIER_PATHWAY",
+  "SEND_EMAIL_NOTIFICATION": "true"
+}
+```
+
 ### Recommended developer environment
 
 - [pyenv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv) to easily switch Python versions.
@@ -98,13 +145,13 @@ This project is written in Python 3.14.
 
 #### Installing pyenv
 
-```
+```shell
 brew install pyenv
 ```
 
 #### Configure your shell's environment for Pyenv
 
-```
+```shell
 For zsh:
 echo 'eval "$(pyenv init --path)"' >> ~/.zprofile
 echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.zshrc
@@ -112,7 +159,7 @@ echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.zshrc
 
 #### Install new python and set as default
 
-```
+```shell
 pyenv install 3.14
 pyenv global 3.14
 ```
@@ -121,7 +168,7 @@ pyenv global 3.14
 
 In a new shell, run the following:
 
-```
+```shell
 python -m pip install pipenv
 python -m pip install -U "pip>=21.1”
 ```
@@ -130,7 +177,7 @@ python -m pip install -U "pip>=21.1”
 
 In a new shell, in the project directory run:
 
-```
+```shell
 ./tasks devenv
 ```
 
@@ -140,16 +187,16 @@ This will create a python virtual environment containing all required dependenci
 
 To find out the path of this new virtual environment, run:
 
-```
+```shell
 pipenv --venv
 ```
 
 Now you can configure the IDE. The steps for IntelliJ are following:
+
 1. Go to `File -> Project Structure -> SDK -> Add SDK -> Python SDK -> Existing environments`
 2. Click on three dots, paste the virtual environment path from before, and point to the python binary.
    The path should look like this: `/Users/janeDoe/.local/share/virtualenvs/prm-spine-exporter-NTBCQ41T/bin/python3.14`
 
-
 ### Running the unit and integration tests
 
 `./tasks test`
diff --git a/services/spine-exporter/README.md b/services/spine-exporter/README.md
index 032f72e..909b821 100644
--- a/services/spine-exporter/README.md
+++ b/services/spine-exporter/README.md
@@ -9,6 +9,21 @@ Alternatively, you can download one of the docker containers already published t
 
 The main code entrypoint is via `python -m prmexporter.main`.
 
+## Running the Spine-exporter manually for testing 
+The spine-exporter is usually triggered by AWS EventBridge (See 'Amazon EventBridge/Scheduler/Scheduled rules' for details).
+
+In order to manually trigger the 'daily-spine-exporter-and-transfer-classifier' step-function you will need to
+navigate to the relevant state-machine in the aws console and use the following input.
+```json
+{
+  "time": "2026-02-16T05:37:00Z",
+  "detail": {}
+}
+```
+After the spine data is collected it will be placed into the prm-gp2gp-raw-spine-data-{env} S3 bucket, where it can be used by the 
+transfer-classifier stage of the state-machine, which will take the new raw GP2GP events pulled by the spine exporter task and combine them at the conversation level
+to generate useful information about each GP2GP transfer. This task will also pull data from the ods-downloader task which gives details such as the practice name, ICB name etc.
+
 
 ## Developing
 
diff --git a/services/transfer-classifier/README.md b/services/transfer-classifier/README.md
index 1e9ec48..8f84668 100644
--- a/services/transfer-classifier/README.md
+++ b/services/transfer-classifier/README.md
@@ -28,6 +28,22 @@ index="spine2vfmmonitor" service="gp2gp" logReference="MPS0053d"
 - When START_DATETIME and END_DATETIME are both passed (which both must be at midnight), then the data retrieved will be from the daily spine exporter output, and it will output a daily transfer parquet file for each date within the date range.
 Example of ISO-8601 datetime that is specified for START_DATETIME or END_DATETIME - "2022-01-19T00:00:00Z".
 
+### Running the transfer-classifier manually for testing 
+
+Whilst the transfer-classifier will be run and tested during the spine-exporter step-functions execution 
+
+```json
+{
+  "CONVERSATION_CUTOFF_DAYS": "8",
+  "START_DATETIME": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
+  "END_DATETIME": "2026-02-01T00:00:00Z",
+  "OUTPUT_TRANSFER_DATA_BUCKET": "prm-gp2gp-transfer-data-{env}",
+  "MI": false
+}
+```
+The MI key is now deprecated but still needs to be passed in. For every day in the reporting window it will output
+each day to the S3 bucket {prm-gp2gp-transfer-data-{env}} separately into the given conversation cut-off path 
+
 #### Environment variables
 
 Configuration is achieved via the following environment variables: