Is there a way to suppress warnings but only for a given directory in Sphinx

[Menelik Weatherspoon]

I am generating API documentation using autoapi.extension in Sphinx. It is a large repo, and not all of the doc strings are well formatted and this generates a lot of sphinx docutils warnings. However I also want sphinx to fail on warnings for the rst files that are manually written. The autogenerated api gets written to a specific directory, so I was wondering if there was a way to ignore warnings just in that specific section

Currently I am suppressing all docutil warnings with the suppressed_warnings in the conf.py. Fixing all of the doc strings in the repo is not really an option, as this is a large repo with a lot of people contributing.

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