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..14ee6b2a 100644
--- a/packages/config/tsconfig.contrib.json
+++ b/packages/config/tsconfig.contrib.json
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
     "paths": {
       // map jspsych-contrib package imports directly to their source files
       "@jspsych-contrib/*": ["../*/src"]
-    }
+    },
+    // allow json resolving to automatically pull package.json info
+    "resolveJsonModule": true
   }
 }