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 # AMD SMI CLI Tool
 
+**Disclaimer: CLI Tool is provided as example code to aid development of telemetry tools. Use of the Python or C++ Library is reccomended for a reliable source of data.**
+
 This tool acts as a command line interface for manipulating
 and monitoring the amdgpu kernel, and is intended to replace
 and deprecate the existing rocm_smi CLI tool & gpuv-smi tool.
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 # Using AMD SMI Command Line Interface tool
 
+**Disclaimer: CLI Tool is provided as example code to aid development of telemetry tools. Use of the Python or C++ Library is reccomended for a reliable source of data.**
+
 AMD-SMI reports the version and current platform detected when running the command line interface (CLI) without arguments:
 
 ``` bash