diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable-build-test-release.yml b/.github/workflows/reusable-build-test-release.yml
index a2536c06..68270ded 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/reusable-build-test-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reusable-build-test-release.yml
@@ -334,9 +334,39 @@ jobs:
           submodules: false
           persist-credentials: false
       - name: Installing requirements
+        shell: bash
         run: |
           pip install pip -U
-          pip install mkdocs==1.6.1 mkdocs-material==9.6.9 poetry
+          pip install poetry
+          DOCS_FILE=""
+          if [[ -f ".github/workflows/docs.yml" ]]; then
+            DOCS_FILE=".github/workflows/docs.yml"
+          elif [[ -f ".github/workflows/docs.yaml" ]]; then
+            DOCS_FILE=".github/workflows/docs.yaml"
+          fi
+          echo "docs yaml file found at: $DOCS_FILE"
+          if [[ -f "$DOCS_FILE" ]]; then
+            PIP_COMMAND=$(awk '{
+              for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) {
+                  if ($i ~ /^pip[0-9.]*$/ && $(i+1) == "install") {
+                  for (j = i+2; j <= NF; j++) {
+                      printf "%s ", $j
+                  }
+                }
+              }
+              }' $DOCS_FILE)
+            if [ -z "$PIP_COMMAND" ]; then
+              echo "No pip install command found in $DOCS_FILE!"
+            else
+              echo "Installing dependencies: $PIP_COMMAND"
+              # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+              pip install $PIP_COMMAND
+          fi
+          else
+            echo "$DOCS_FILE file not found. No dependencies installed for mkdocs"
+            echo "Installing default pip install mkdocs==1.6.1 mkdocs-material==9.6.9"
+            pip install mkdocs==1.6.1 mkdocs-material==9.6.9
+          fi
       - name: validate
         id: validate
         run: |