diff --git a/.github/actions/test-adoc/action.yml b/.github/actions/test-adoc/action.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7a0a4d6a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/actions/test-adoc/action.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+name: Test asciidoctor files
+
+env:
+    # Not possible to set this as a default
+    # https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/46670
+    shell: bash
+
+runs:
+    using: composite
+
+    steps:
+        - name: Install asciidoctor
+          shell: ${{ env.shell }}
+          run: |
+            sudo apt-get update
+            sudo apt-get install -y asciidoctor
+  
+        - name: Check for errors
+          shell: ${{ env.shell }}
+          run: |
+            set -o errexit ${RUNNER_DEBUG:+-x}
+          
+            # Builds the adoc file using asciidoctor, discarding the output
+            # This logs any warnings etc
+
+            # asciidoc doesn't handle "include::partial" (this is supported by Antora on top), so we ignore any of those errors
+            # We can't use Antora directly because if built in isolation, none of the links between documentation repos resolve
+            # To address this would require comingling PR and upstream repos
+
+            output=$( \
+              asciidoctor \
+                --out-file /dev/null  \
+                "**/*.adoc" \
+                 2>&1 | \
+              grep \
+                -v \
+                "include file not found" \
+              )
+
+            # Fail the action if there was any output from the build
+            if [[ ${output} ]]; then
+              while IFS= read -r line; do
+                  if [[ "${line}" == *"INFO"* ]]; then
+                    severity=info
+                  elif [[ "${line}" == *"WARNING"* ]]; then
+                    severity=warning
+                  else
+                    severity=error
+                  fi
+
+                  echo "::${severity}::${line}"
+              done <<< "${output}"
+              exit 1
+            fi
diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate.yml b/.github/workflows/validate.yml
index a936a1c7a..12a15d626 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   check-links:
-
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
@@ -17,3 +16,10 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Check dead links
         uses: hazelcast/hazelcast-docs/.github/actions/validate@main
+
+  test-adoc:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: ./.github/actions/test-adoc
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