diff --git a/component/cluster-api.jsonnet b/component/cluster-api.jsonnet
index 760fe66..b0934f5 100644
--- a/component/cluster-api.jsonnet
+++ b/component/cluster-api.jsonnet
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ com.Kustomization(
       },
     ],
     patchesStrategicMerge: [ 'rm-namespace.yaml' ],
-    patches: [ capi.kustomize_patch_crd_clusterctl_label.patch ],
     // NOTE(sg): Somehow the upstream replacements don't take our `namespace`
     // override into account? For now, we replicate the namespace replacements
     // here to workaround this issue.
@@ -143,4 +142,4 @@ com.Kustomization(
       },
     },
   ],
-} + capi.kustomize_patch_crd_clusterctl_label.patch_file
+} + capi.kustomize_crd_clusterctl_label_patch
diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/references/library.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/references/library.adoc
index 0ae829a..2d2161d 100644
--- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/references/library.adoc
+++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/references/library.adoc
@@ -50,3 +50,9 @@ This function creates a minimal custom resource based on the function arguments.
 The function only populates fields `apiVersion`, `kind` and `metadata.name`.
 The function uses library field `apiVersion` to create field `apiVersion` based on the provided `apiGroup`.
 Fields `kind` and `metadata.name` are set to the values of arguments `kind` and `name` respectively.
+
+== `kustomize_crd_clusterctl_label_patch`
+
+This library field provides a Kustomize patch which applies label `clusterctl.cluster.x-k8s.io=""` to all CRDs which are part of the target Kustomization.
+
+This library field provides the patch as an object which is suitable to be merged into the output of https://syn.tools/commodore/reference/commodore-libjsonnet.html#_kustomizationbase_url_base_version_images_kustomize_input[the Commodore `com.Kustomization()` helper function].
diff --git a/lib/capi-core.libsonnet b/lib/capi-core.libsonnet
index 5f62a1a..37c4786 100644
--- a/lib/capi-core.libsonnet
+++ b/lib/capi-core.libsonnet
@@ -1,22 +1,24 @@
 {
-  kustomize_patch_crd_clusterctl_label: {
-    patch: {
-      path: 'clusterctl-label.yaml',
-      target: {
-        group: 'apiextensions.k8s.io',
-        version: 'v1',
-        kind: 'CustomResourceDefinition',
-      },
+  // NOTE(sg): This is structured in a way that allows it to be merged into
+  // the result of `com.Kustomzation()` without any adjustments.
+  kustomize_crd_clusterctl_label_patch: {
+    kustomization+: {
+      patches+: [ {
+        path: 'capi-core-clusterctl-label.yaml',
+        target: {
+          group: 'apiextensions.k8s.io',
+          version: 'v1',
+          kind: 'CustomResourceDefinition',
+        },
+      } ],
     },
-    patch_file: {
-      'clusterctl-label': {
-        apiVersion: 'apiextensions.k8s.io/v1',
-        kind: 'CustomResourceDefinition',
-        metadata: {
-          name: 'REPLACE_ME',
-          labels: {
-            'clusterctl.cluster.x-k8s.io': '',
-          },
+    'capi-core-clusterctl-label': {
+      apiVersion: 'apiextensions.k8s.io/v1',
+      kind: 'CustomResourceDefinition',
+      metadata: {
+        name: 'REPLACE_ME',
+        labels: {
+          'clusterctl.cluster.x-k8s.io': '',
         },
       },
     },