diff --git a/packages/@monocdk-experiment/assert/clone.sh b/packages/@monocdk-experiment/assert/clone.sh
index 57992d60340de..6588be2545a76 100755
--- a/packages/@monocdk-experiment/assert/clone.sh
+++ b/packages/@monocdk-experiment/assert/clone.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ for file in ${files}; do
   cp $src/$file .
 done
 
-npx rewrite-imports **/*.ts
+npx rewrite-imports "**/*.ts"
 
 # symlink the full staged monocdk from the staging directory to node_modules
 rm -fr node_modules/monocdk-experiment
diff --git a/packages/@monocdk-experiment/assert/tsconfig.json b/packages/@monocdk-experiment/assert/tsconfig.json
index 09e731eab9d8b..db0564499ef48 100644
--- a/packages/@monocdk-experiment/assert/tsconfig.json
+++ b/packages/@monocdk-experiment/assert/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
     "compilerOptions": {
-        "target":"es2018",
-        "lib": ["es2016", "es2017.object", "es2017.string"],
-        "module": "commonjs",
+        "target":"ES2018",
+        "lib": ["es2018"],
+        "module": "CommonJS",
         "declaration": true,
         "strict": true,
         "noImplicitAny": true,
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
         "inlineSourceMap": true,
         "inlineSources": true,
         "strictPropertyInitialization": false,
-        "experimentalDecorators": true
+        "experimentalDecorators": true,
+        "composite": true,
+        "incremental": true
     },
     "include": ["**/*.ts" ],
     "exclude": ["node_modules"]