diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 4a5a74aa49..2c5e730827 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-build-sysroots = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfound
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-builder = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-buildtools-extended-tarball = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-buildtools-tarball = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-buildtools-docs-tarball = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-busybox = "Andrej Valek <andrej.valek@siemens.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-busybox-inittab = "Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-bzip2 = "Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-docs-tarball.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-docs-tarball.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..72a256cf04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-docs-tarball.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+require recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb
+
+DESCRIPTION = "SDK type target for building a standalone tarball containing the tools needed to build the project docs."
+SUMMARY = "SDK type target for building a standalone tarball containing the tools needed to build the project docs."
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+
+# Add nativesdk equivalent of build-essentials
+TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK += "\
+    nativesdk-python3-sphinx \
+    nativesdk-python3-sphinx-rtd-theme \
+    nativesdk-python3-pyyaml \
+    "
+
+TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME = "${SDK_ARCH}-buildtools-docs-nativesdk-standalone-${DISTRO_VERSION}"
+
+SDK_TITLE = "Docs Build tools tarball"
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