diff --git a/.changeset/eight-steaks-camp.md b/.changeset/eight-steaks-camp.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..224ebac9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/eight-steaks-camp.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@jspsych/config": patch
+---
+
+allow JSON resolution in contrib repository for usage of package.json in versioning
diff --git a/packages/config/tsconfig.contrib.json b/packages/config/tsconfig.contrib.json
index 07064963..eff2ae1d 100644
--- a/packages/config/tsconfig.contrib.json
+++ b/packages/config/tsconfig.contrib.json
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
     "paths": {
       // map jspsych-contrib package imports directly to their source files
       "@jspsych-contrib/*": ["../*/src"]
-    }
+    },
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/config/tsconfig.core.json b/packages/config/tsconfig.core.json
index b2be38c9..88b63087 100644
--- a/packages/config/tsconfig.core.json
+++ b/packages/config/tsconfig.core.json
@@ -7,7 +7,5 @@
       "jspsych": ["../jspsych/src"],
       "@jspsych/*": ["../*/src"]
     },
-    // allow resolving json modules in tests (needed for transitive imports of jspsych)
-    "resolveJsonModule": true
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/config/tsconfig.json b/packages/config/tsconfig.json
index 8446400e..473b69b5 100644
--- a/packages/config/tsconfig.json
+++ b/packages/config/tsconfig.json
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
     "skipLibCheck": true,
     "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
     "noEmit": true,
-    "isolatedModules": true // required by Sucrase
+    "isolatedModules": true, // required by Sucrase
+    "resolveJsonModule": true, // required for automatic package versioning and needed for transitive imports of jspsych
   }
 }