diff --git a/scripts/generate-eql-docs.ts b/scripts/generate-eql-docs.ts
index 0625226..975b9c1 100644
--- a/scripts/generate-eql-docs.ts
+++ b/scripts/generate-eql-docs.ts
@@ -120,6 +120,12 @@ function escapeMdxSpecials(content: string): string {
           part
             .replace(/\{/g, "\\{")
             .replace(/\}/g, "\\}")
+            // Strip Doxygen's `<tt>` teletype tags. They're a lowercase-led
+            // "tag" so the `<` rule below leaves them intact, but MDX requires
+            // every tag to be balanced — and mangled SQL-comment source can
+            // emit a stray, unclosed `<tt>` (e.g. eql-3.0.0-alpha.3's API.md),
+            // which fails the whole build. MDX doesn't need the tag, so drop it.
+            .replace(/<\/?tt\b[^>]*>/gi, "")
             // Escape `<` unless it begins a real JSX/HTML tag, a closing
             // tag, or an autolink (followed by a lowercase letter, `_`, `$`,
             // or `/`). Uppercase-led tokens like `<T>` are type placeholders