diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-exec-rejected.bats b/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-exec-rejected.bats
index 978ee8a5ad..e6dbe67c04 100644
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-exec-rejected.bats
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-exec-rejected.bats
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ load "${BATS_TEST_DIRNAME}/../../common.bash"
 load "${BATS_TEST_DIRNAME}/tests_common.sh"
 
 setup() {
-	policy_tests_enabled || skip "Policy tests are disabled."
+	hard_coded_policy_tests_enabled || skip "Policy tests are disabled."
 
 	get_pod_config_dir
 	pod_name="policy-exec-rejected"
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ setup() {
 }
 
 teardown() {
-	policy_tests_enabled || skip "Policy tests are disabled."
+	hard_coded_policy_tests_enabled || skip "Policy tests are disabled."
 
 	# Debugging information
 	kubectl describe "pod/$pod_name"
diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/tests_common.sh b/tests/integration/kubernetes/tests_common.sh
index 6ed0e42ac2..21114f9f2a 100644
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/tests_common.sh
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/tests_common.sh
@@ -306,16 +306,18 @@ set_namespace_to_policy_settings() {
 	mv "${settings_dir}/new-genpolicy-settings.json" "${settings_dir}/genpolicy-settings.json"
 }
 
-policy_tests_enabled() {
-	# The Guest images for these platforms have been built using AGENT_POLICY=yes -
-	# see kata-deploy-binaries.sh.
+hard_coded_policy_tests_enabled() {
+	# CI is testing hard-coded policies just on a the platforms listed here. Outside of CI,
+	# users can enable testing of the same policies (plus the auto-generated policies) by
+	# specifying AUTO_GENERATE_POLICY=yes.
 	local enabled_hypervisors="qemu-coco-dev qemu-sev qemu-snp qemu-tdx"
 	[[ " $enabled_hypervisors " =~ " ${KATA_HYPERVISOR} " ]] || \
-		[ "${KATA_HOST_OS}" == "cbl-mariner" ]
+		[ "${KATA_HOST_OS}" == "cbl-mariner" ] || \
+		auto_generate_policy_enabled
 }
 
 add_allow_all_policy_to_yaml() {
-	policy_tests_enabled || return 0
+	hard_coded_policy_tests_enabled || return 0
 
 	local yaml_file="$1"
 	# Previous version of yq was not ready to handle multiple objects in a single yaml.