diff --git a/docs/ignore-step.sh b/docs/ignore-step.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..0591891eeb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/ignore-step.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+echo "VERCEL_ENV: $VERCEL_ENV"
+echo "VERCEL_GIT_COMMIT_REF: $VERCEL_GIT_COMMIT_REF"
+
+
+if [ "$VERCEL_ENV" == "production" ] || [ "$VERCEL_GIT_COMMIT_REF" == "master" ] || [ "$VERCEL_GIT_COMMIT_REF" == "v0.1" ]; then 
+    echo "✅ Production build - proceeding with build"
+    exit 1; 
+else 
+    echo "Checking for changes in docs/ and templates/:"
+    echo "---"
+    git log -n 50 --pretty=format:"%s" -- . ../templates | grep -v '(#'
+    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "---"
+        echo "✅ Changes detected in docs/ or templates/ - proceeding with build"
+        exit 1
+    else
+        echo "---"
+        echo "🛑 No changes detected in docs/ or templates/ - ignoring build"
+        exit 0
+    fi
+fi
diff --git a/docs/vercel.json b/docs/vercel.json
index ce3c7ba1786..11adcd6746a 100644
--- a/docs/vercel.json
+++ b/docs/vercel.json
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   "buildCommand": "yarn build",
   "outputDirectory": "build",
+  "ignoreCommand": "bash ignore-step.sh",
   "trailingSlash": true,
   "rewrites": [
     {