Can we refer json from other file in the openapi json file ?

[mdhvcgf]

Hi, I’m trying to split my large openapi.json into smaller files and reference them with $ref. In my main spec I have:

"/ai/v1/lesson-plan/get-additional-blocks": { "$ref": "paths/lesson-plan/get-additional-blocks.json#/GET_METHOD" }

However, when I run validation I get an error. Is this the correct way to reference an external path definition in Swagger/OpenAPI? I saw this syntax in the documentation of Swagger but can’t get it to validate—what am I doing wrong? Below is my file structure