diff --git a/scripts/bundles/internal.ts b/scripts/bundles/internal.ts
index dbc1478a..8f391ad5 100644
--- a/scripts/bundles/internal.ts
+++ b/scripts/bundles/internal.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 import { join } from 'path';
 
-import { cleanDts } from '../utils/bundle-dts';
+import { bundleDts, cleanDts } from '../utils/bundle-dts';
 import type { BuildOptions } from '../utils/options';
 import { writePkgJson } from '../utils/write-pkg-json';
 import { internalAppData } from './internal-app-data';
@@ -70,7 +70,16 @@ async function copyRindoInternalDts(opts: BuildOptions, outputInternalDir: strin
   // @rindo/core/internal/rindo-public-docs.d.ts
   const docsDtsSrcPath = join(declarationsInputDir, 'rindo-public-docs.d.ts');
   const docsDtsDestPath = join(outputInternalDir, 'rindo-public-docs.d.ts');
-  const docsDts = cleanDts(await fs.readFile(docsDtsSrcPath, 'utf8'));
+  // We bundle with `dts-bundle-generator` here to ensure that when the `docs-json`
+  // OT writes a `docs.d.ts` file based on this file it is fully portable.
+  const docsDts = await bundleDts(opts, docsDtsSrcPath, {
+    // we want to suppress the `dts-bundle-generator` banner here because we do
+    // our own later on
+    noBanner: true,
+    // we also don't want the types which are inlined into our bundled file to
+    // be re-exported, which will change the 'surface' of the module
+    exportReferencedTypes: false,
+  });
   await fs.writeFile(docsDtsDestPath, docsDts);
 
   // @rindo/core/internal/rindo-public-runtime.d.ts
diff --git a/scripts/utils/bundle-dts.ts b/scripts/utils/bundle-dts.ts
index 9e7f5236..493bc876 100644
--- a/scripts/utils/bundle-dts.ts
+++ b/scripts/utils/bundle-dts.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
-import { generateDtsBundle } from 'dts-bundle-generator/dist/bundle-generator.js';
+import { EntryPointConfig, generateDtsBundle, OutputOptions } from 'dts-bundle-generator/dist/bundle-generator.js';
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 
 import { BuildOptions } from './options';
 
-export async function bundleDts(opts: BuildOptions, inputFile: string) {
+/**
+ * A thin wrapper for `dts-bundle-generator` which uses our build options to
+ * set a few things up
+ *
+ * **Note**: this file caches its output to disk, and will return any
+ * previously cached file if not in a prod environment!
+ *
+ * @param opts an object holding information about the current build of Rindo
+ * @param inputFile the path to the file which should be bundled
+ * @param outputOptions options for bundling the file
+ * @returns a string containing the bundled typedef
+ */
+export async function bundleDts(opts: BuildOptions, inputFile: string, outputOptions?: OutputOptions): Promise<string> {
   const cachedDtsOutput = inputFile + '-bundled.d.ts';
 
   if (!opts.isProd) {
@@ -12,15 +24,15 @@ export async function bundleDts(opts: BuildOptions, inputFile: string) {
     } catch (e) {}
   }
 
-  const entries = [
-    {
-      filePath: inputFile,
-    },
-  ];
+  const config: EntryPointConfig = {
+    filePath: inputFile,
+  };
 
-  let outputCode = generateDtsBundle(entries).join('\n');
+  if (outputOptions) {
+    config.output = outputOptions;
+  }
 
-  outputCode = cleanDts(outputCode);
+  const outputCode = cleanDts(generateDtsBundle([config]).join('\n'));
 
   await fs.writeFile(cachedDtsOutput, outputCode);
 
diff --git a/src/compiler/docs/json/index.ts b/src/compiler/docs/json/index.ts
index 1ea963cb..91cf0857 100644
--- a/src/compiler/docs/json/index.ts
+++ b/src/compiler/docs/json/index.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,14 @@ export const generateJsonDocs = async (
     return;
   }
   const docsDtsPath = join(config.sys.getCompilerExecutingPath(), '..', '..', 'internal', 'rindo-public-docs.d.ts');
-  const docsDts = await compilerCtx.fs.readFile(docsDtsPath);
+  let docsDts = await compilerCtx.fs.readFile(docsDtsPath);
+  // this file was written by dts-bundle-generator, which uses tabs for
+  // indentation. Instead, let's replace those with spaces!
+  docsDts = docsDts
+    .split('\n')
+    .map((line) => line.replace(/\t/g, '    '))
+    .join('\n');
+
   const typesContent = `
 /**
  * This is an autogenerated file created by the Rindo compiler.