diff --git a/src/crosswalk.ts b/src/crosswalk.ts
index 46bffae..1a5bd68 100644
--- a/src/crosswalk.ts
+++ b/src/crosswalk.ts
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ export type OneWayRule = z.infer<typeof OneWayRuleSchema>;
 export const CrosswalkSchema: z.ZodType<Crosswalk> & { is: (value: unknown) => value is Crosswalk } = define(
   z
     .object({
+      $schema: z.string().optional(),
       source: z.string(),
       target: z.string(),
       rules: z.array(TwoWayRuleSchema).default([]),
@@ -219,6 +220,8 @@ function keptPath(path: string): MoveRule {
   return { op: "move", from: path, to: path };
 }
 export interface Crosswalk {
+  /** The address of the JSON Schema the document declares itself written against, which editors read to validate and complete it. It has no part in encoding, decoding or validation. */
+  readonly $schema?: string | undefined;
   readonly source: string;
   readonly target: string;
   readonly rules: readonly TwoWayRule[];
diff --git a/src/crosswalk.unit.test.ts b/src/crosswalk.unit.test.ts
index 9f9c983..ab921cc 100644
--- a/src/crosswalk.unit.test.ts
+++ b/src/crosswalk.unit.test.ts
@@ -157,6 +157,20 @@ describe("parseCrosswalk", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("$schema", () => {
+  it("is accepted as the address of the document's own schema and carries no rule", () => {
+    const parsed = parseCrosswalk({ $schema: "https://example.com/crossmap.schema.json", source: "a", target: "b", keep: ["x"] });
+    expect(parsed.$schema).toBe("https://example.com/crossmap.schema.json");
+    expect(parsed.rules).toEqual([{ op: "move", from: "x", to: "x" }]);
+    expect(validateCrosswalk(parsed)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("is optional and must be text", () => {
+    expect(parseCrosswalk({ source: "a", target: "b" }).$schema).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(() => parseCrosswalk({ $schema: 1, source: "a", target: "b" })).toThrow(CrosswalkSyntaxError);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("keep", () => {
   it("reads each kept path as an identity move appended after the rules, in order", () => {
     const parsed = parseCrosswalk({ source: "a", target: "b", rules: [{ op: "scale", from: "w", to: "weight", factor: 2 }], keep: ["meta", "nodes[].id"] });