diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9c5fe63..26ee203 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: audit.connect
 Title: Posit Connect Health Check
-Version: 0.8.6
+Version: 0.8.7
 Authors@R:
     person("Jumping", "Rivers", , "info@jumpingrivers.com", role = c("aut", "cre"))
 Description: Posit Connect Health Check. Deploys various content types to
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ed59889..e680557 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# audit.connect 0.8.7
+
+## Bug fixes and minor improvements
+
+* The tests that deploy to `CONNECT_SERVER` only run when `AUDIT_CONNECT_LIVE` is `true`, so `devtools::test()` no longer deploys to whichever server is set (#68).
+
 # audit.connect 0.8.6
 
 ## Bug fixes and minor improvements
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index 89a898b..8d3f955 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -139,3 +139,13 @@ example_test = function() {
   return(TRUE)
 }
 ```
+
+## Running the tests
+
+`test-check.R` and `test-sanitise.R` deploy test content to the server in `CONNECT_SERVER`, so they
+are skipped unless `AUDIT_CONNECT_LIVE` is `true`:
+
+```r
+Sys.setenv(AUDIT_CONNECT_LIVE = "true")
+devtools::test()
+```
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 56558e2..ff2b21a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -134,3 +134,13 @@ example_test = function() {
   return(TRUE)
 }
 ```
+
+## Running the tests
+
+`test-check.R` and `test-sanitise.R` deploy test content to the server in `CONNECT_SERVER`, so they
+are skipped unless `AUDIT_CONNECT_LIVE` is `true`:
+
+```r
+Sys.setenv(AUDIT_CONNECT_LIVE = "true")
+devtools::test()
+```
diff --git a/tests/testthat/helper-live.R b/tests/testthat/helper-live.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..955fda0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/helper-live.R
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# These tests deploy to CONNECT_SERVER, so they only run when asked
+skip_if_not_live = function() {
+  testthat::skip_if_not(
+    identical(Sys.getenv("AUDIT_CONNECT_LIVE"), "true"),
+    "set AUDIT_CONNECT_LIVE=true to deploy to CONNECT_SERVER"
+  )
+}
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-check.R b/tests/testthat/test-check.R
index b7bca3a..d598fd1 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-check.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-check.R
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 test_that("High level test", {
-  testthat::skip_on_ci()
-  create_config(default = TRUE)
-  expect_error(check(server = "aaa.bbb"))
+  skip_if_not_live()
+  dir = withr::local_tempdir()
+  create_config(dir = dir, default = TRUE)
+  expect_error(check(server = "aaa.bbb", dir = dir))
   # Run standard check
-  rtn = suppressMessages(check())
+  rtn = suppressMessages(check(dir = dir))
 
   expect_true(is.list(rtn))
   check_names = c(
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-sanitise.R b/tests/testthat/test-sanitise.R
index 8ca5d5a..c9dec90 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-sanitise.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-sanitise.R
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 describe("Checking sanitize function", {
-  testthat::skip_on_ci()
+  skip_if_not_live()
+  dir = withr::local_tempdir()
   # Skip report checks for speed
-  create_config(default = FALSE, type = "force")
-  rtn = suppressMessages(check())
+  create_config(dir = dir, default = FALSE, type = "force")
+  rtn = suppressMessages(check(dir = dir))
   sanitize_rtn = sanitise(rtn)
 
   it(