diff --git a/core/catalog_cache/README.md b/core/catalog_cache/README.md
index d5b3d11f8d1..56415c895c1 100644
--- a/core/catalog_cache/README.md
+++ b/core/catalog_cache/README.md
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Catalog Cache
-Documentation for the catalog cache can be found in [../docs/catalog_service.md](../docs/catalog_service.md).
+
diff --git a/core/iox_query/README.md b/core/iox_query/README.md
index c5229834758..9fbff8e7a61 100644
--- a/core/iox_query/README.md
+++ b/core/iox_query/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # IOx Query Layer
 
-See [InfluxDB IOx -- Query Processing](../docs/query_processing.md) for details.
+See the query-processing design notes in the internal engineering docs.