diff --git a/awxkit/conftest.py b/awxkit/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7dc05ffff7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/awxkit/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# This conftest registers pytest-django CLI options and INI keys as harmless
+# no-ops so that the awxkit tox environment (which does not install Django or
+# pytest-django) does not crash when the root pytest.ini config leaks through.
+#
+# Root pytest.ini contains settings like --reuse-db, --nomigrations, and
+# DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE that are only meaningful for Django tests.  Placing
+# this conftest at the awxkit/ level ensures it is loaded before argument
+# parsing regardless of which config file pytest ultimately selects.
+
+
+def pytest_addoption(parser):
+    group = parser.getgroup("awxkit-compat", "awxkit tox compatibility shims")
+    group.addoption("--reuse-db", action="store_true", default=False, help="(no-op in awxkit) pytest-django compat")
+    group.addoption("--nomigrations", action="store_true", default=False, help="(no-op in awxkit) pytest-django compat")
+    group.addoption("--create-db", action="store_true", default=False, help="(no-op in awxkit) pytest-django compat")
+    parser.addini("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", help="(no-op in awxkit) pytest-django compat", default="")
diff --git a/awxkit/pytest.ini b/awxkit/pytest.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ff69f4177c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/awxkit/pytest.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[pytest]
+addopts = -v --tb=native
+testpaths = test
+python_files = test_*.py
+
+filterwarnings =
+  error
+
+junit_family=xunit2
diff --git a/awxkit/tox.ini b/awxkit/tox.ini
index 71e3081dd1..801d8b0931 100644
--- a/awxkit/tox.ini
+++ b/awxkit/tox.ini
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ deps =
     pytest-mock
 
 commands =
-    coverage run --parallel --source awxkit -m pytest --doctest-glob='*.md' --junit-xml=report.xml {posargs}
+    coverage run --parallel --source awxkit -m pytest -c pytest.ini test --doctest-glob='*.md' --junit-xml=report.xml {posargs}
     coverage combine
     coverage xml
 
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ max-line-length = 120
 
 [pytest]
 addopts = -v --tb=native
+testpaths = test
+python_files = test_*.py
 
 filterwarnings =
   error