diff --git a/instrumentation/buildtool/+matlab/+buildtool/+plugins/OpenTelemetryPlugin.m b/instrumentation/buildtool/+matlab/+buildtool/+plugins/OpenTelemetryPlugin.m
index f0a3a85..30730b8 100644
--- a/instrumentation/buildtool/+matlab/+buildtool/+plugins/OpenTelemetryPlugin.m
+++ b/instrumentation/buildtool/+matlab/+buildtool/+plugins/OpenTelemetryPlugin.m
@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@
 
     methods(Access = protected)
         function runBuild(plugin, pluginData)
+            % Warn users that tasks on workers will not emit telemetry data
+            % if a pool is open. 
+            % 
+            % Imperfect detection of parallel builds but
+            % the impact of a false positive is very low
+            p = gcp("nocreate");
+            if ~isempty(p)
+                warning("opentelemetry:buildtool:OpenTelemetryPlugin:NoParallelEmit", ...
+                    "Tasks executed on parallel workers do not emit telemetry data.");
+            end
+
             % Configure by attaching to span if passed in via environment
             % variable, and propagating baggage
             configureOTel();
@@ -56,10 +67,6 @@ function runBuild(plugin, pluginData)
         end
 
         function runTask(plugin, pluginData)
-            % TODO:
-            %  - buildtool.task.outputs
-            %  - buildtool.task.inputs
-
             % Definitions
             task = pluginData.TaskGraph.Tasks;
             taskName = pluginData.Name;
@@ -187,4 +194,4 @@ function cleanupOTel(span)
 otellp = opentelemetry.logs.Provider.getLoggerProvider;
 opentelemetry.sdk.common.Cleanup.forceFlush(otellp, timeout);
 opentelemetry.sdk.common.Cleanup.shutdown(otellp);
-end
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+end