diff --git a/.github/workflows/dokka-gh-pages.yml b/.github/workflows/dokka-gh-pages.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53c853c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/dokka-gh-pages.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+name: Deploy the API documentation to GitHub Pages with Dokka
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ "plugins-release" ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ "plugins-release" ]
+
+  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  pages: write
+  id-token: write
+
+# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
+# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
+concurrency:
+  group: "pages"
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  # Build job
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Setup Pages
+        uses: actions/configure-pages@v5
+
+      - name: Set up JDK 8
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          java-version: "8"
+          distribution: "temurin"
+
+      - name: Setup Gradle
+        uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
+
+      - name: Build the distribution with Gradle Wrapper
+        run: ./gradlew :dokkaGeneratePublicationHtml
+
+      - name: Upload artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          path: build/dokka/html/
+
+  # Deployment job
+  deploy:
+    environment:
+      name: github-pages
+      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: build
+    steps:
+      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
+        id: deployment
+        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4
diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
index f2ba312..8259f79 100644
--- a/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ tasks.wrapper {
     distributionType = Wrapper.DistributionType.ALL
 }
 
+plugins {
+    id("org.jetbrains.dokka")
+}
+
+// workaround for https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/issues/3903 from https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/issues/2260 TODO remove when it's fixed
+repositories {
+    mavenCentral()
+}
+
 evaluationDependsOnChildren()
 task("publishPluginProjectPlugins") {
     group = "plugin portal"
@@ -9,3 +18,17 @@ task("publishPluginProjectPlugins") {
     val pluginProjects = subprojects.filter { it.name.endsWith("plugins") }
     pluginProjects.forEach { dependsOn(it.tasks.named("publishPlugins")) }
 }
+
+
+dependencies {
+    /*
+    "common-gradle-dependencies" not added because it's published in a separate branch
+    "huanshankeji-team-gradle-plugins" not added because it's renamed and more cumbersome to configure, and also because it's only used by us
+     */
+    listOf(
+        "kotlin-common-gradle-plugins",
+        "architecture-common-gradle-plugins",
+    ).forEach {
+        dokka(project(":$it"))
+    }
+}
diff --git a/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts b/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
index 6b5e030..db36dd1 100644
--- a/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
@@ -38,4 +38,6 @@ dependencies {
     // This is also a bootstrapping dependency.
     implementation("com.huanshankeji:common-gradle-dependencies:0.7.1-20240314-boostrap") { exclude("org.jetbrains.kotlin") }
     */
+
+    implementation("org.jetbrains.dokka:dokka-gradle-plugin:2.0.0-Beta")
 }
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/aligned-version-plugin-conventions.gradle.kts b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/aligned-version-plugin-conventions.gradle.kts
index b8b0bbe..93ac02b 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/aligned-version-plugin-conventions.gradle.kts
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/aligned-version-plugin-conventions.gradle.kts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompilationTask
 
 plugins {
     id("conventions")
+    id("dokka-convention")
 }
 
 version = alignedPluginVersion
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/dokka-convention.gradle.kts b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/dokka-convention.gradle.kts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac6e6ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/dokka-convention.gradle.kts
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+plugins {
+    id("org.jetbrains.dokka")
+}
+
+dokka {
+    dokkaSourceSets.all {
+        sourceLink {
+            remoteUrl("https://github.com/huanshankeji/gradle-common/tree/v${version}/${project.name}")
+            remoteLineSuffix.set("#L")
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 6e2c210..860f258 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 #kotlin.mpp.stability.nowarn=true
 # More memory is needed to build "architecture-common-gradle-plugins" since Kotlin 2.0.0
 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2G
+# for Dokka
+org.jetbrains.dokka.experimental.gradle.pluginMode=V2Enabled