diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index f0a8ee5a198..3192b6a4070 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ commands:
           command: pnpm -F "./packages/*" add react-compiler-runtime
       - run:
           name: Build with compiler
-          command: pnpm -F "./packages/*" build --enableReactCompiler
+          command: pnpm release:build --enableReactCompiler
           environment:
             MUI_REACT_COMPILER_MODE: 'infer'
 
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2caaecd4a02..74dbf44a7d2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ size-snapshot.json
 # Remove if you want to pregenerate the docs md files
 docs/public/llms.txt
 docs/public/llms-full.txt
+docs/public/index.md
 docs/public/react
+packages/react/published-docs/
 .cursor/rules/nx-rules.mdc
 .github/instructions/nx.instructions.md
 
diff --git a/docs/scripts/generateLlmTxt/index.mjs b/docs/scripts/generateLlmTxt/index.mjs
index 6b41532c3a0..d0320ef924b 100755
--- a/docs/scripts/generateLlmTxt/index.mjs
+++ b/docs/scripts/generateLlmTxt/index.mjs
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ function incrementHeaders(increment = 1) {
   };
 }
 
+function inlineCodeHtmlTags(text) {
+  return text.replace(/<\/?[a-zA-Z][^>]*>/g, '`$&`');
+}
+
 function githubSlugify(text) {
   return text
     .trim()
@@ -216,7 +220,11 @@ async function generateLlmsTxt() {
     // Page rendering functions - focused only on their unique logic
     const renderPageAsLink = (page) => {
       const resolvedUrl = resolveUrl(page.mdUrlPath, BASE_URL);
-      return [`- [${page.title}](${resolvedUrl}): ${page.description}`];
+      return [`- [${page.title}](${resolvedUrl}): ${inlineCodeHtmlTags(page.description)}`];
+    };
+    const renderPageAsRelativeLink = (page) => {
+      const relativeUrl = `.${page.mdUrlPath}`;
+      return [`- [${page.title}](${relativeUrl}): ${inlineCodeHtmlTags(page.description)}`];
     };
     const renderPageAsInline = async (page) => {
       const content = await prepareForInlineMarkdown(page.fullMarkdown, 2, metadataByUrl);
@@ -300,9 +308,12 @@ async function generateLlmsTxt() {
     await Promise.all([
       createFile('llms.txt', renderPageAsLink),
       createFile('llms-full.txt', renderPageAsInline),
+      createFile('index.md', renderPageAsRelativeLink),
     ]);
 
-    console.log(`Successfully generated ${totalFiles} markdown files, llms.txt, and llms-full.txt`);
+    console.log(
+      `Successfully generated ${totalFiles} markdown files, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and index.md`,
+    );
   } catch (error) {
     console.error('Error generating llms.txt:', error);
     process.exit(1);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c00618e681c..d6f5be2cd1a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     "deduplicate": "pnpm dedupe",
     "build": "lerna run --no-private build",
     "release:version": "lerna version --no-changelog --no-push --no-git-tag-version --no-private",
-    "release:build": "lerna run --concurrency 8 --no-private build --skip-nx-cache",
+    "release:build": "pnpm docs:generate-llms && lerna run --concurrency 8 --no-private build --skip-nx-cache --",
     "release:changelog": "code-infra generate-changelog",
     "release:changelog:docs": "FORMAT=docs code-infra generate-changelog",
     "release:publish": "code-infra publish --github-release",
diff --git a/packages/react/package.json b/packages/react/package.json
index e23815a0b5f..435a11b4dcc 100644
--- a/packages/react/package.json
+++ b/packages/react/package.json
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@
   },
   "type": "commonjs",
   "scripts": {
-    "prebuild": "rimraf --glob build build-tests \"*.tsbuildinfo\"",
-    "build": "code-infra build --ignore \"**/*.template.js\" --copy .npmignore",
+    "prebuild": "rimraf --glob build build-tests published-docs \"*.tsbuildinfo\" && node ./scripts/stagePublishedDocs.mjs",
+    "build": "code-infra build --ignore \"**/*.template.js\" --copy .npmignore --copy \"published-docs/**:docs\"",
     "test:package": "publint --pack pnpm && attw --pack ./build --exclude-entrypoints package.json --exclude-entrypoints esm --exclude-entrypoints cjs",
     "release": "pnpm build && pnpm publish",
     "test": "cross-env VITEST_ENV=jsdom vitest",
diff --git a/packages/react/scripts/stagePublishedDocs.mjs b/packages/react/scripts/stagePublishedDocs.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d9dfaf861de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react/scripts/stagePublishedDocs.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/* eslint-disable no-console */
+import fs from 'node:fs/promises';
+import path from 'node:path';
+
+const PACKAGE_ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dirname, '..');
+const DOCS_PUBLIC = path.resolve(PACKAGE_ROOT, '../../docs/public');
+const STAGE_DIR = path.join(PACKAGE_ROOT, 'published-docs');
+
+await fs.rm(STAGE_DIR, { recursive: true, force: true });
+
+let count = 0;
+for await (const entry of fs.glob('**/*.md', { cwd: DOCS_PUBLIC })) {
+  const src = path.join(DOCS_PUBLIC, entry);
+  const dst = path.join(STAGE_DIR, entry);
+  await fs.mkdir(path.dirname(dst), { recursive: true });
+  await fs.copyFile(src, dst);
+  count += 1;
+}
+
+if (count === 0) {
+  throw new Error('No markdown files found in docs/public/. Run "pnpm docs:generate-llms" first.');
+}
+
+console.log(`[stage-docs] Staged ${count} markdown files into published-docs/.`);