diff --git a/.bcr/source.template.json b/.bcr/source.template.json
index 7fb5985..fcfcf03 100644
--- a/.bcr/source.template.json
+++ b/.bcr/source.template.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   "integrity": "**leave this alone**",
   "strip_prefix": "{REPO}-{VERSION}",
+  "docs_url": "https://github.com/{OWNER}/{REPO}/releases/download/{TAG}/{REPO}-{TAG}.docs.tar.gz",
   "url": "https://github.com/{OWNER}/{REPO}/releases/download/{TAG}/{REPO}-{TAG}.tar.gz"
 }
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release_prep.sh b/.github/workflows/release_prep.sh
index 0997286..5182008 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/release_prep.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/release_prep.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ ARCHIVE="rules_d-$TAG.tar.gz"
 git archive --format=tar --prefix=${PREFIX}/ ${TAG} | gzip > $ARCHIVE
 SHA=$(shasum -a 256 $ARCHIVE | awk '{print $1}')
 
+# Add generated API docs to the release, see https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry/issues/5593
+docs="$(mktemp -d)"; targets="$(mktemp)"
+bazel --output_base="$docs" query --output=label --output_file="$targets" 'kind("starlark_doc_extract rule", //...)'
+bazel --output_base="$docs" build --target_pattern_file="$targets" --remote_download_regex='.*doc_extract\.binaryproto'
+tar --create --auto-compress \
+    --directory "$(bazel --output_base="$docs" info bazel-bin)" \
+    --file "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/${ARCHIVE%.tar.gz}.docs.tar.gz" .
+
 cat << EOF
 ## Using Bzlmod with Bazel 7 or greater