diff --git a/_quarto.yml b/_quarto.yml
index 934d393cb5..a7539ba270 100644
--- a/_quarto.yml
+++ b/_quarto.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 project:
   type: website
-  pre-render: docs/scripts/generate_config_docs.py
+  pre-render:
+   - docs/scripts/generate_config_docs.py
+   - docs/scripts/generate_examples_docs.py
 
 quartodoc:
   dir: docs/api
@@ -286,6 +288,11 @@ website:
             - docs/gradient_checkpointing.qmd
             - docs/nd_parallelism.qmd
 
+        - title: Usage Examples
+          desc: Example YAML files for training different models
+          contents:
+            - docs/examples/*.qmd
+
         - section: "Troubleshooting"
           contents:
             - docs/faq.qmd
diff --git a/docs/scripts/examples-allowlist.yml b/docs/scripts/examples-allowlist.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e14d6eda78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/scripts/examples-allowlist.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+examples:
+  - distributed-parallel
+  - slurm
+  - llama-3
+  - gpt-oss
diff --git a/docs/scripts/generate_examples_docs.py b/docs/scripts/generate_examples_docs.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..ffe3d43e9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/scripts/generate_examples_docs.py
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+"""
+auto generate example docs from allowlist
+"""
+
+import re
+import shutil
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import yaml
+
+# Paths
+THIS = Path(__file__).resolve()
+ROOT = THIS.parents[2]  # repo root (docs/scripts -> docs -> ROOT)
+EXAMPLES_DIR = ROOT / "examples"
+OUTPUT_DIR = ROOT / "docs" / "examples"
+ALLOWLIST_YML = THIS.parent / "examples-allowlist.yml"
+
+
+# utilities
+def slugify(name: str) -> str:
+    s = re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z0-9\-_/]+", "-", name.strip())
+    s = s.replace("/", "-")
+    s = re.sub(r"-+", "-", s).strip("-").lower()
+    return s or "example"
+
+
+def read_allowlist():
+    with open(ALLOWLIST_YML, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        data = yaml.safe_load(f) or {}
+    items = data.get("examples", [])
+    if not isinstance(items, list):
+        raise ValueError("`examples` must be a list in examples-allowlist.yml")
+    return items
+
+
+def find_readme(folder: Path) -> Path | None:
+    for name in ("README.md", "Readme.md", "readme.md"):
+        p = folder / name
+        if p.exists():
+            return p
+    return None
+
+
+def first_h1(md: str) -> str | None:
+    for line in md.splitlines():
+        if line.startswith("# "):
+            return line[2:].strip()
+    return None
+
+
+IMG_RE = re.compile(r"!\[[^\]]*\]\(([^)]+)\)")
+
+
+def rewrite_and_copy_assets(
+    md: str, src_dir: Path, dest_assets_root: Path, slug: str
+) -> str:
+    """
+    Copy local image assets referenced in markdown to
+    docs/examples/assets/<slug>/... and rewrite the links.
+    """
+    dest_assets = dest_assets_root / slug
+
+    def repl(m):
+        url = m.group(1).strip()
+        if re.match(r"^(https?:)?//", url):
+            return m.group(0)  # leave remote URLs
+        # normalize path
+        src_path = (src_dir / url).resolve()
+        if not src_path.exists():
+            return m.group(0)  # leave as-is if not found
+        rel = src_path.relative_to(src_dir)
+        dest_path = dest_assets / rel
+        dest_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        shutil.copy2(src_path, dest_path)
+        new_rel = f"assets/{slug}/{rel.as_posix()}"
+        return m.group(0).replace(url, new_rel)
+
+    return IMG_RE.sub(repl, md)
+
+
+def write_qmd(out_path: Path, title: str, body_md: str):
+    out_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    fm = f"---\ntitle: {title!r}\nformat:\n  html:\n    toc: true\n---\n\n"
+    out_path.write_text(fm + body_md, encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def main():
+    allow = read_allowlist()
+    if not EXAMPLES_DIR.exists():
+        print(f"[WARN] {EXAMPLES_DIR} not found", file=sys.stderr)
+        return
+
+    (OUTPUT_DIR / "assets").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    generated = []
+    for item in allow:
+        src_dir = EXAMPLES_DIR / item
+        if not src_dir.exists() or not src_dir.is_dir():
+            print(f"[WARN] Skipping {item} (not a directory)", file=sys.stderr)
+            continue
+
+        readme = find_readme(src_dir)
+        if not readme:
+            print(f"[WARN] Skipping {item} (no README.md)", file=sys.stderr)
+            continue
+
+        md = readme.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+        slug = slugify(item)
+        title = first_h1(md) or f"Example: {item}"
+        md = rewrite_and_copy_assets(md, src_dir, OUTPUT_DIR / "assets", slug)
+        write_qmd(OUTPUT_DIR / f"{slug}.qmd", title, md)
+        generated.append(slug)
+
+    # Optional: index page
+    if generated:
+        generated.sort()
+        listing = "\n".join([f"- [{s}](./{s}.qmd)" for s in generated])
+        index_md = "# Examples\n\nBelow are the curated examples:\n\n" + listing + "\n"
+        write_qmd(OUTPUT_DIR / "index.qmd", "Examples", index_md)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()