diff --git a/src/schemas/base.ts b/src/schemas/base.ts
index b62aaf5b1fda92f..5e7e1990a924dac 100644
--- a/src/schemas/base.ts
+++ b/src/schemas/base.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import { z } from "astro:schema";
-import { BadgeConfigSchema } from "./types/badge";
 import type { SchemaContext } from "astro:content";
 
+import { sidebar } from "./types/sidebar";
+
 const spotlightAuthorDetails = z
 	.object({
 		author: z.string(),
@@ -98,32 +99,7 @@ export const baseSchema = ({ image }: SchemaContext) =>
 			.describe(
 				"If true, this property adds a `noindex` declaration to the page, which will tell internal / external search crawlers to ignore this page. Helpful for pages that are historically accurate, but no longer recommended, such as [Workers Sites](/workers/configuration/sites/).",
 			),
-		sidebar: z
-			.object({
-				order: z.number().optional(),
-				label: z.string().optional(),
-				group: z
-					.object({
-						label: z
-							.string()
-							.optional()
-							.describe(
-								"Overrides the default 'Overview' label for index pages in the sidebar. Refer to https://developers.cloudflare.com/style-guide/frontmatter/sidebar/.",
-							),
-						hideIndex: z
-							.boolean()
-							.default(false)
-							.describe(
-								"Hides the index page from the sidebar. Refer to [Sidebar](/style-guide/frontmatter/sidebar/).",
-							),
-						badge: BadgeConfigSchema(),
-					})
-					.optional(),
-			})
-			.optional()
-			.describe(
-				"Used to configure various sidebar options. Refer to [Sidebar](/style-guide/frontmatter/sidebar/).",
-			),
+		sidebar,
 		hideChildren: z
 			.boolean()
 			.optional()
diff --git a/src/schemas/types/sidebar.ts b/src/schemas/types/sidebar.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..d69ba71b73754c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/schemas/types/sidebar.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/**
+ * Existing configuration options in Starlight's `sidebar` object are duplicated
+ * here due to https://github.com/StefanTerdell/zod-to-json-schema/issues/68
+ *
+ * Existing options can be found in
+ * https://github.com/withastro/starlight/blob/main/packages/starlight/schema.ts
+ */
+
+import { z } from "astro:schema";
+import type { AstroBuiltinAttributes } from "astro";
+import type { HTMLAttributes } from "astro/types";
+
+/**
+ * From https://github.com/withastro/starlight/blob/main/packages/starlight/schemas/badge.ts
+ */
+
+const linkHTMLAttributesSchema = z.record(
+	z.union([z.string(), z.number(), z.boolean(), z.undefined()]),
+) as z.Schema<
+	Omit<HTMLAttributes<"a">, keyof AstroBuiltinAttributes | "children">
+>;
+
+const SidebarLinkItemHTMLAttributesSchema = () =>
+	linkHTMLAttributesSchema.default({});
+
+/**
+ * https://github.com/withastro/starlight/blob/main/packages/starlight/schemas/sidebar.ts
+ */
+
+const badgeBaseSchema = z.object({
+	variant: z
+		.enum(["note", "danger", "success", "caution", "tip", "default"])
+		.default("default"),
+	class: z.string().optional(),
+});
+
+const badgeSchema = badgeBaseSchema.extend({
+	text: z.string(),
+});
+
+const BadgeConfigSchema = () =>
+	z
+		.union([z.string(), badgeSchema])
+		.transform((badge) => {
+			if (typeof badge === "string") {
+				return { variant: "default" as const, text: badge };
+			}
+			return badge;
+		})
+		.optional();
+
+export const sidebar = z
+	.object({
+		order: z.number().optional(),
+		label: z.string().optional(),
+		hidden: z.boolean().default(false),
+		badge: BadgeConfigSchema(),
+		attrs: SidebarLinkItemHTMLAttributesSchema(),
+		group: z
+			.object({
+				label: z
+					.string()
+					.optional()
+					.describe(
+						"Overrides the default 'Overview' label for index pages in the sidebar. Refer to https://developers.cloudflare.com/style-guide/frontmatter/sidebar/.",
+					),
+				hideIndex: z
+					.boolean()
+					.default(false)
+					.describe(
+						"Hides the index page from the sidebar. Refer to [Sidebar](/style-guide/frontmatter/sidebar/).",
+					),
+				badge: BadgeConfigSchema(),
+			})
+			.optional(),
+	})
+	.default({})
+	.describe(
+		"Used to configure various sidebar options. Refer to [Sidebar](/style-guide/frontmatter/sidebar/).",
+	);