diff --git a/.github/workflows/doc-strings-review.yml b/.github/workflows/doc-strings-review.yml
index 342f2c7b5..5908e6209 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/doc-strings-review.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/doc-strings-review.yml
@@ -51,22 +51,19 @@ jobs:
     if: >-
       !github.event.pull_request.draft &&
       github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository
-    # v5.55.0 (2026-10-19): the lint and the review diff the merge checkout
-    # against its first parent, the base commit GitHub actually merged into,
-    # so a PR whose base moved after it was opened is no longer attributed
-    # strings that other PRs changed. The helm surface shares its values.yaml
-    # walk with helm-spec, which now documents the first commented-out key
-    # after a "# --" block rather than the last. Each run also uploads the
-    # docs MCP answers the review saw as a 90-day workflow artifact for the
-    # doc-impact eval; this repo is public, so anyone can download it, and it
-    # holds only public docs answers and the review's questions about the
-    # PR's strings.
+    # v5.56.0 (2026-10-26): lines that a human reviewer other than the
+    # author wrote on the PR, in a suggestion block or in prose, are not
+    # reviewed again, and the crd surface steers field comments toward a
+    # verb-led opener. Each run uploads the docs MCP answers the review saw
+    # as a 90-day workflow artifact for the doc-impact eval; this repo is
+    # public, so anyone can download it, and it holds only public docs
+    # answers and the review's questions about the PR's strings.
     # The workflow_call inputs and secrets are unchanged since v5.52.0, so
     # this shim passes the same values.
     # The reusable workflow resolves the doc-tools CLI version from its own
     # ref, so this SHA pins the review logic and the CLI together and a bump
     # moves both.
-    uses: redpanda-data/docs-extensions-and-macros/.github/workflows/doc-strings-review.yml@560c4301d2f98c2e5e158daa70fa2d3760859bda # v5.55.0
+    uses: redpanda-data/docs-extensions-and-macros/.github/workflows/doc-strings-review.yml@ad5f399e920677c63749bd8f5e4b2423d5f55dac # v5.56.1
     permissions:
       contents: read
       pull-requests: write