Can you give an example of the vue context where this is needed? Sorry, from my knowledge of vue, I know that it's a rendering and application framework, but am not aware of any parts where vue has an opinion of how source files are transferred or processed that would yield this kind of input to documentation.js.

And - given that there's a valid vue-specific usecase, this will require a new test to make sure that the new functionality is covered and guaranteed by the test suite.

Closing: not hearing any more detail, and I don't feel comfortable supporting this feature without context for why it is the way it is. From this implementation, it looks like you can get the desired effect by setting shallow: true in your options, which will disable this dependency-following code and allow you to dictate already-read dependencies like this.