diff --git a/dokka-runners/dokka-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/internal/PluginFeaturesService.kt b/dokka-runners/dokka-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/internal/PluginFeaturesService.kt
index 6bdae5ff53..5f7fc0a434 100644
--- a/dokka-runners/dokka-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/internal/PluginFeaturesService.kt
+++ b/dokka-runners/dokka-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/internal/PluginFeaturesService.kt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  */
 package org.jetbrains.dokka.gradle.internal
 
+import org.gradle.TaskExecutionRequest
 import org.gradle.api.Action
 import org.gradle.api.GradleException
 import org.gradle.api.Project
@@ -12,6 +13,8 @@ import org.gradle.api.provider.Provider
 import org.gradle.api.services.BuildService
 import org.gradle.api.services.BuildServiceParameters
 import org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.extra
+import java.io.File
+import java.util.*
 
 /**
  * Internal utility service for managing Dokka Plugin features and warnings.
@@ -193,56 +196,125 @@ internal abstract class PluginFeaturesService : BuildService<PluginFeaturesServi
          * Register a new [PluginFeaturesService], or get an existing instance.
          */
         val Project.pluginFeaturesService: PluginFeaturesService
-            get() {
-                val setFlags = Action<Params> {
-                    v2PluginEnabled.set(getFlag(V2_PLUGIN_ENABLED_FLAG))
-                    v2PluginNoWarn.set(getFlag(V2_PLUGIN_NO_WARN_FLAG_PRETTY).orElse(getFlag(V2_PLUGIN_NO_WARN_FLAG)))
-                    v2PluginMigrationHelpersEnabled.set(getFlag(V2_PLUGIN_MIGRATION_HELPERS_FLAG))
-                    k2AnalysisEnabled.set(getFlag(K2_ANALYSIS_ENABLED_FLAG))
-                    k2AnalysisNoWarn.set(
-                        getFlag(K2_ANALYSIS_NO_WARN_FLAG_PRETTY)
-                            .orElse(getFlag(K2_ANALYSIS_NO_WARN_FLAG))
-                    )
-                }
-
-                return try {
-                    gradle.sharedServices.registerIfAbsent(PluginFeaturesService::class) {
-                        parameters(setFlags)
-                        // This service was successfully registered, so it is considered 'primary'.
-                        parameters.primaryService.set(true)
+            get() = getOrCreateService(project)
+
+        private fun getOrCreateService(project: Project): PluginFeaturesService {
+            val configureServiceParams = serviceParamsConfiguration(project)
+
+            return try {
+                project.gradle.sharedServices.registerIfAbsent(PluginFeaturesService::class) {
+                    parameters(configureServiceParams)
+                    // This service was successfully registered, so it is considered 'primary'.
+                    parameters.primaryService.set(true)
+                }.get()
+            } catch (ex: ClassCastException) {
+                try {
+                    // Recover from Gradle bug: re-register the service, but don't mark it as 'primary'.
+                    project.gradle.sharedServices.registerIfAbsent(
+                        PluginFeaturesService::class,
+                        classLoaderScoped = true,
+                    ) {
+                        parameters(configureServiceParams)
+                        parameters.primaryService.set(false)
                     }.get()
                 } catch (ex: ClassCastException) {
-                    try {
-                        // Recover from Gradle bug: re-register the service, but don't mark it as 'primary'.
-                        gradle.sharedServices.registerIfAbsent(
-                            PluginFeaturesService::class,
-                            classLoaderScoped = true,
-                        ) {
-                            parameters(setFlags)
-                            parameters.primaryService.set(false)
-                        }.get()
-                    } catch (ex: ClassCastException) {
-                        throw GradleException(
-                            "Failed to register BuildService. Please report this problem https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/17559",
-                            ex
-                        )
-                    }
+                    throw GradleException(
+                        "Failed to register BuildService. Please report this problem https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/17559",
+                        ex
+                    )
                 }
             }
+        }
 
-        private fun Project.getFlag(flag: String): Provider<Boolean> =
-            providers
-                .gradleProperty(flag)
-                .forUseAtConfigurationTimeCompat()
-                .orElse(
-                    // Note: Enabling/disabling features via extra-properties is only intended for unit tests.
-                    // (Because org.gradle.testfixtures.ProjectBuilder doesn't support mocking Gradle properties.
-                    // But maybe soon! https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/30002)
-                    project
-                        .provider { project.extra.properties[flag]?.toString() }
-                        .forUseAtConfigurationTimeCompat()
+        /**
+         * Return an [Action] that will configure [PluginFeaturesService.Params], based on detected plugin flags.
+         */
+        private fun serviceParamsConfiguration(
+            project: Project
+        ): Action<Params> {
+
+            /** Find a flag for [PluginFeaturesService]. */
+            fun getFlag(flag: String): Provider<Boolean> =
+                project.providers
+                    .gradleProperty(flag)
+                    .forUseAtConfigurationTimeCompat()
+                    .orElse(
+                        // Note: Enabling/disabling features via extra-properties is only intended for unit tests.
+                        // (Because org.gradle.testfixtures.ProjectBuilder doesn't support mocking Gradle properties.
+                        // But maybe soon! https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/30002)
+                        project
+                            .provider { project.extra.properties[flag]?.toString() }
+                            .forUseAtConfigurationTimeCompat()
+                    )
+                    .map(String::toBoolean)
+
+
+            return Action {
+                v2PluginEnabled.set(getFlag(V2_PLUGIN_ENABLED_FLAG))
+                v2PluginNoWarn.set(getFlag(V2_PLUGIN_NO_WARN_FLAG_PRETTY).orElse(getFlag(V2_PLUGIN_NO_WARN_FLAG)))
+                v2PluginMigrationHelpersEnabled.set(getFlag(V2_PLUGIN_MIGRATION_HELPERS_FLAG))
+                k2AnalysisEnabled.set(getFlag(K2_ANALYSIS_ENABLED_FLAG))
+                k2AnalysisNoWarn.set(
+                    getFlag(K2_ANALYSIS_NO_WARN_FLAG_PRETTY)
+                        .orElse(getFlag(K2_ANALYSIS_NO_WARN_FLAG))
                 )
-                .map(String::toBoolean)
+
+                configureParamsDuringAccessorsGeneration(project)
+            }
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * We use a Gradle flag to control whether DGP is in v1 or v2 mode.
+         * This flag dynamically changes the behaviour of DGP at runtime.
+         *
+         * However, there is a particular situation where this flag can't be detected:
+         * When Dokka is applied to a precompiled script plugin and Gradle generates Kotlin DSL accessors.
+         *
+         * When Gradle is generating such accessors, it creates a temporary project, totally disconnected
+         * from the main build. The temporary project has no access to any Gradle properties.
+         * As such, no Dokka flags can be detected, resulting in unexpected behaviour.
+         *
+         * We work around this by first detecting when Gradle is generating accessors
+         * (see [isGradleGeneratingAccessors]), and secondly by manually discovering a suitable
+         * `gradle.properties` file (see [findGradlePropertiesFile]) and reading its values.
+         *
+         * This is a workaround and can be removed with DGPv1
+         * https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-71027/
+         */
+        private fun Params.configureParamsDuringAccessorsGeneration(project: Project) {
+            try {
+                if (project.isGradleGeneratingAccessors()) {
+                    logger.info("Gradle is generating accessors. Discovering Dokka Gradle Plugin flags manually. ${project.gradle.rootProject.name} | ${project.gradle.rootProject.rootDir}")
+
+                    // Disable all warnings, regardless of the discovered flag values.
+                    // Log messages will be printed too soon and aren't useful for users.
+                    v2PluginNoWarn.set(true)
+
+                    // Because Gradle is generating accessors, it won't give us access to Gradle properties
+                    // defined for the main project. So, we must discover `gradle.properties` ourselves.
+                    val propertiesFile = project.findGradlePropertiesFile()
+
+                    val properties = Properties().apply {
+                        propertiesFile?.reader()?.use { reader ->
+                            load(reader)
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    // These are the only flags that are important when Gradle is generating accessors,
+                    // because they control what accessors DGP registers.
+                    properties[V2_PLUGIN_ENABLED_FLAG]?.toString()?.toBoolean()?.let {
+                        v2PluginEnabled.set(it)
+                    }
+                    properties[V2_PLUGIN_MIGRATION_HELPERS_FLAG]?.toString()?.toBoolean()?.let {
+                        v2PluginMigrationHelpersEnabled.set(it)
+                    }
+                }
+            } catch (t: Throwable) {
+                // Ignore all errors.
+                // This is just a temporary util. It doesn't need to be stable long-term,
+                // and we don't want to risk breaking people's projects.
+            }
+        }
 
         /**
          * Draw a pretty ascii border around some text.
@@ -264,3 +336,62 @@ internal abstract class PluginFeaturesService : BuildService<PluginFeaturesServi
         }
     }
 }
+
+
+/**
+ * Determine if Gradle is generating DSL script accessors for precompiled script plugins.
+ *
+ * When Gradle generates accessors, it creates an empty project in a temporary directory and runs no tasks.
+ * So, we can guess whether Gradle is generating accessors based on this information.
+ */
+private fun Project.isGradleGeneratingAccessors(): Boolean {
+    if (gradle.rootProject.name != "gradle-kotlin-dsl-accessors") {
+        return false
+    }
+
+    if (gradle.taskGraph.allTasks.isNotEmpty()) {
+        return false
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * When a Gradle build is executed with no requested tasks and no arguments then
+     * Gradle runs a single 'default' task that has no values.
+     */
+    fun TaskExecutionRequest.isDefaultTask(): Boolean =
+        projectPath == null && args.isEmpty() && rootDir == null
+
+    val taskRequest = gradle.startParameter.taskRequests.singleOrNull() ?: return false
+    if (!taskRequest.isDefaultTask()) return false
+
+    // Gradle generates accessors in a temporary project in a temporary directory, e.g.
+    //    `build-logic/build/tmp/generatePrecompiledScriptPluginAccessors/accessors373648437747350006`
+    // The last directory has a random name, so we can drop that and check if the other segments match.
+    val rootProjectPath = gradle.rootProject.rootDir.invariantSeparatorsPath
+    return rootProjectPath
+        .substringBeforeLast("/")
+        .endsWith("build/tmp/generatePrecompiledScriptPluginAccessors")
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Walk up the file tree until we discover a `gradle.properties` file.
+ *
+ * Note that this function will harm Configuration Cache, because it accesses files during the configuration phase.
+ * It must only be used
+ */
+private fun Project.findGradlePropertiesFile(): File? {
+    return generateSequence(project.projectDir) { it.parentFile }
+        .takeWhile { it != it.parentFile && it.exists() }
+
+        // Add an arbitrary limit to stop infinite scanning, just in case something goes wrong
+        .take(50)
+
+        // Skip the first 5 directories, to get to the actual project directory.
+        // <actual project dir>/build/tmp/generatePrecompiledScriptPluginAccessors/accessors373648437747350006
+        //   ^5                  ^4    ^3                  ^2                                ^1
+        .drop(5)
+
+        .map { it.resolve("gradle.properties") }
+
+        .firstOrNull { it.exists() && it.isFile }
+}
diff --git a/dokka-runners/dokka-gradle-plugin/src/testFunctional/kotlin/BuildSrcKotlinDslAccessorsTest.kt b/dokka-runners/dokka-gradle-plugin/src/testFunctional/kotlin/BuildSrcKotlinDslAccessorsTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3e3371d2c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dokka-runners/dokka-gradle-plugin/src/testFunctional/kotlin/BuildSrcKotlinDslAccessorsTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2014-2024 JetBrains s.r.o. Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license.
+ */
+package org.jetbrains.dokka.gradle
+
+import io.kotest.core.spec.style.FunSpec
+import org.gradle.testkit.runner.TaskOutcome.*
+import org.jetbrains.dokka.gradle.internal.DokkaConstants
+import org.jetbrains.dokka.gradle.utils.*
+
+class BuildSrcKotlinDslAccessorsTest : FunSpec({
+
+    val project = initProjectWithBuildSrcConvention()
+
+    context("when DGPv2 is enabled") {
+        project
+            .runner
+            .addArguments(
+                ":compileKotlin",
+                "--project-dir", "buildSrc",
+            )
+            .build {
+                test("expect DGPv2 can be used in a convention plugin") {
+                    shouldHaveTasksWithAnyOutcome(":compileKotlin" to listOf(SUCCESS, UP_TO_DATE, FROM_CACHE))
+                }
+            }
+    }
+})
+
+private fun initProjectWithBuildSrcConvention(
+    rootProjectName: String? = null,
+    config: GradleProjectTest.() -> Unit = {},
+): GradleProjectTest {
+
+    return gradleKtsProjectTest(
+        projectLocation = "BuildSrcKotlinDslAccessorsTest",
+        rootProjectName = rootProjectName,
+    ) {
+
+        buildGradleKts = """
+            |plugins {
+            |  kotlin("jvm") version embeddedKotlinVersion
+            |  id("org.jetbrains.dokka") version "${DokkaConstants.DOKKA_VERSION}"
+            |}
+            |
+            """.trimMargin()
+
+        dir("buildSrc") {
+            buildGradleKts = """
+                |plugins {
+                |  `kotlin-dsl`
+                |}
+                |
+                |dependencies {
+                |  implementation("org.jetbrains.dokka:dokka-gradle-plugin:${DokkaConstants.DOKKA_VERSION}")
+                |}
+                |
+                """.trimMargin()
+
+
+            settingsGradleKts = """
+                |rootProject.name = "buildSrc"
+                |
+                |${settingsRepositories()}
+                |
+            """.trimMargin()
+
+            createFile(
+                "src/main/kotlin/dokka-convention.gradle.kts",
+                /* language=TEXT */ """
+                |plugins {
+                |  id("org.jetbrains.dokka")
+                |}
+                |
+                |dokka {
+                |    moduleName.set("custom-module-name")
+                |}
+                |
+                """.trimMargin()
+            )
+        }
+
+        gradleProperties {
+            dokka {
+                v2Plugin = true
+                v2MigrationHelpers = true
+            }
+        }
+
+        config()
+    }
+}