diff --git a/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml b/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
index 507d7e2ed..bc5c5882f 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
@@ -196,12 +196,19 @@
   name: Terraform validate (Docker)
   description: >-
     Validates all Terraform configuration files using Docker.
+    Automatically runs 'terraform init' and retries validation if provider/module
+    errors are detected.
     NOTE: Requires Docker to be available. Use 'skip' in .pre-commit-config.yaml
     if running on pre-commit.ci or other environments without Docker.
   require_serial: true
   entry: ghcr.io/actuarysailor/pre-commit-terraform-tools:latest
   language: docker_image
-  args: [terraform, validate]
+  args:
+  - /usr/bin/hooks/terraform_validate.sh
+  - --hook-config=--retry-once-with-cleanup=true
+  - --hook-config=--parallelism-ci-cpu-cores=2
+  - --
+  - .
   pass_filenames: false
   files: \.(tf|tofu|tfvars|terraform\.lock\.hcl)$
   exclude: \.terraform/.*$
diff --git a/examples/.pre-commit-config-docker.yaml b/examples/.pre-commit-config-docker.yaml
index bbe1a4ba6..91294d672 100644
--- a/examples/.pre-commit-config-docker.yaml
+++ b/examples/.pre-commit-config-docker.yaml
@@ -3,9 +3,14 @@
 
 # Skip Docker hooks on pre-commit.ci (which doesn't support Docker)
 ci:
-  skip: [terraform_fmt_docker, terraform_validate_docker, terraform_tflint_docker,
-    terraform_docs_docker, terraform_checkov_docker, terraform_trivy_docker,
-    infracost_breakdown_docker]
+  skip:
+  - terraform_fmt_docker
+  - terraform_validate_docker
+  - terraform_tflint_docker
+  - terraform_docs_docker
+  - terraform_checkov_docker
+  - terraform_trivy_docker
+  - infracost_breakdown_docker
 
 repos:
 - repo: https://github.com/actuarysailor/pre-commit-terraform