diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 0ed6908..867c3f5 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -150,17 +150,6 @@ references:
     email: csardi.gabor@gmail.com
   year: '2024'
   doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.cli
-- type: software
-  title: autotest
-  abstract: 'autotest: Automatic Package Testing'
-  notes: Suggests
-  url: https://docs.ropensci.org/autotest/
-  authors:
-  - family-names: Padgham
-    given-names: Mark
-    email: mark.padgham@email.com
-    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2172-5265
-  year: '2024'
 - type: software
   title: knitr
   abstract: 'knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R'
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8340cb7..c60afbc 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ Imports:
     vctrs,
     cli
 Suggests:
-    autotest,
     knitr,
     rmarkdown,
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
diff --git a/codemeta.json b/codemeta.json
index aff2048..c9b87b9 100644
--- a/codemeta.json
+++ b/codemeta.json
@@ -60,11 +60,6 @@
     }
   ],
   "softwareSuggestions": [
-    {
-      "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
-      "identifier": "autotest",
-      "name": "autotest"
-    },
     {
       "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
       "identifier": "knitr",
@@ -213,7 +208,7 @@
     },
     "SystemRequirements": null
   },
-  "fileSize": "2143.621KB",
+  "fileSize": "2198.879KB",
   "citation": [
     {
       "@type": "SoftwareSourceCode",
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-autotest.R b/tests/testthat/test-autotest.R
index cdec5dd..02e68ac 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-autotest.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-autotest.R
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@
 test_that(
   desc = "Relevant `autotest` checks pass",
   code = {
-    testthat::skip(
-      message = paste0(
-        "There is a bug which causes errors in autotest when all tests with ",
-        "issues are not supposed to be tested. For now, I am skipping instead ",
-        "of having testthat fail.")
+    skip_on_ci()
+    skip_on_cran()
+    skip(message = paste0(
+      "There is a bug which causes errors in autotest when all tests with ",
+      "issues are not supposed to be tested. For now, I am skipping instead ",
+      "of having testthat fail.")
     )
     at_table <- autotest::autotest_package(test = FALSE)
     at_table$note <- rep_len(x = NA_character_, length.out = nrow(at_table))