diff --git a/.changeset/short-geese-double.md b/.changeset/short-geese-double.md
index 45d3764e6d..1c63321be7 100644
--- a/.changeset/short-geese-double.md
+++ b/.changeset/short-geese-double.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-'@backstage/cli': minor
+'@backstage/cli': patch
 ---
 
 New config command to export the configuration schema. When running backstage-cli with yarn, consider using `yarn --silent backstage-cli config:schema` to get a clean output on `stdout`.
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/commands/config/schema.ts b/packages/cli/src/commands/config/schema.ts
index 17525ec48b..fbf46bff1a 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/commands/config/schema.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/commands/config/schema.ts
@@ -29,13 +29,17 @@ export default async (cmd: Command) => {
     mockEnv: true,
   });
 
-  const { schema: data } = mergeConfigSchemas(
-    schema.serialize().schemas as ConfigSchemaPackageEntry[],
+  const merged = mergeConfigSchemas(
+    schema.serialize().schemas.map(_ => _.value),
   );
 
+  merged.title = 'Application Configuration Schema';
+  merged.description =
+    'This is the schema describing the structure of the app-config.yaml configuration file.';
+
   if (cmd.format === 'json') {
-    process.stdout.write(`${JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)}\n`);
+    process.stdout.write(`${JSON.stringify(merged, null, 2)}\n`);
   } else {
-    process.stdout.write(`${stringifyYaml(data)}\n`);
+    process.stdout.write(`${stringifyYaml(merged)}\n`);
   }
 };
diff --git a/packages/config-loader/src/index.ts b/packages/config-loader/src/index.ts
index 4878e9d098..d9e5ae1350 100644
--- a/packages/config-loader/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/config-loader/src/index.ts
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@
  */
 
 export { readEnvConfig, loadConfigSchema, mergeConfigSchemas } from './lib';
-export type {
-  ConfigSchema,
-  ConfigSchemaPackageEntry,
-  ConfigVisibility,
-} from './lib';
+export type { ConfigSchema, ConfigVisibility } from './lib';
 export { loadConfig } from './loader';
 export type { LoadConfigOptions } from './loader';
diff --git a/packages/config-loader/src/lib/schema/compile.ts b/packages/config-loader/src/lib/schema/compile.ts
index 0ac1ea8045..e85b6023cc 100644
--- a/packages/config-loader/src/lib/schema/compile.ts
+++ b/packages/config-loader/src/lib/schema/compile.ts
@@ -35,48 +35,6 @@ import {
 export function compileConfigSchemas(
   schemas: ConfigSchemaPackageEntry[],
 ): ValidationFunc {
-  const { schema: merged, parser: ajv, visibilityByPath } = mergeConfigSchemas(
-    schemas,
-  );
-
-  const validate = ajv.compile(merged);
-
-  return configs => {
-    const config = ConfigReader.fromConfigs(configs).get();
-
-    visibilityByPath.clear();
-
-    const valid = validate(config);
-    if (!valid) {
-      const errors = validate.errors ?? [];
-      return {
-        errors: errors.map(({ dataPath, message, params }) => {
-          const paramStr = Object.entries(params)
-            .map(([name, value]) => `${name}=${value}`)
-            .join(' ');
-          return `Config ${message || ''} { ${paramStr} } at ${dataPath}`;
-        }),
-        visibilityByPath: new Map(),
-      };
-    }
-
-    return {
-      visibilityByPath: new Map(visibilityByPath),
-    };
-  };
-}
-
-/**
- * Given a list of configuration schemas from packages, merge them
- * into a single json schema.
- */
-export function mergeConfigSchemas(
-  schemas: ConfigSchemaPackageEntry[],
-): {
-  schema: JSONSchema;
-  parser: Ajv;
-  visibilityByPath: Map<string, ConfigVisibility>;
-} {
   // The ajv instance below is stateful and doesn't really allow for additional
   // output during validation. We work around this by having this extra piece
   // of state that we reset before each validation.
@@ -119,8 +77,41 @@ export function mergeConfigSchemas(
     }
   }
 
+  const merged = mergeConfigSchemas(schemas.map(_ => _.value));
+  const validate = ajv.compile(merged);
+
+  return configs => {
+    const config = ConfigReader.fromConfigs(configs).get();
+
+    visibilityByPath.clear();
+
+    const valid = validate(config);
+    if (!valid) {
+      const errors = validate.errors ?? [];
+      return {
+        errors: errors.map(({ dataPath, message, params }) => {
+          const paramStr = Object.entries(params)
+            .map(([name, value]) => `${name}=${value}`)
+            .join(' ');
+          return `Config ${message || ''} { ${paramStr} } at ${dataPath}`;
+        }),
+        visibilityByPath: new Map(),
+      };
+    }
+
+    return {
+      visibilityByPath: new Map(visibilityByPath),
+    };
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Given a list of configuration schemas from packages, merge them
+ * into a single json schema.
+ */
+export function mergeConfigSchemas(schemas: JSONSchema[]): JSONSchema {
   const merged = mergeAllOf(
-    { allOf: schemas.map(_ => _.value) },
+    { allOf: schemas },
     {
       // JSONSchema is typically subtractive, as in it always reduces the set of allowed
       // inputs through constraints. This changes the object property merging to be additive
@@ -149,10 +140,5 @@ export function mergeConfigSchemas(
       } as Partial<Resolvers<JSONSchema>>,
     },
   );
-
-  return {
-    schema: merged,
-    parser: ajv,
-    visibilityByPath,
-  };
+  return merged;
 }
diff --git a/packages/config-loader/src/lib/schema/index.ts b/packages/config-loader/src/lib/schema/index.ts
index dc2e471a28..00bb5c7d10 100644
--- a/packages/config-loader/src/lib/schema/index.ts
+++ b/packages/config-loader/src/lib/schema/index.ts
@@ -16,8 +16,4 @@
 
 export { mergeConfigSchemas } from './compile';
 export { loadConfigSchema } from './load';
-export type {
-  ConfigSchema,
-  ConfigSchemaPackageEntry,
-  ConfigVisibility,
-} from './types';
+export type { ConfigSchema, ConfigVisibility } from './types';