diff --git a/src/configuration.js b/src/configuration.js
index 0ed927af..6d41bba4 100644
--- a/src/configuration.js
+++ b/src/configuration.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { readSync, readFileSync } from 'fs';
 import path from 'path';
 import { sync as globSync, hasMagic as globHasMagic } from 'glob';
 
+import ModuleResolver from './relative_module_resolver.js';
 import { SourceMap } from './source_map.js';
 import JSONFormatter from './formatters/json_formatter.js';
 import TextFormatter from './formatters/text_formatter.js';
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ export class Configuration {
       - format: (required) `text` | `json`
       - rules: [string array] whitelist rules
       - schemaPaths: [string array] file(s) to read schema from
+      - customRulePackages: [string array] names of packages where the entry point named exports are rules
       - customRulePaths: [string array] path to additional custom rules to be loaded
       - stdin: [boolean] pass schema via stdin?
       - commentDescriptions: [boolean] use old way of defining descriptions in GraphQL SDL
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@ export class Configuration {
   constructor(options = {}, stdinFd = null) {
     const defaultOptions = {
       format: 'text',
+      customRulePackages: [],
       customRulePaths: [],
       commentDescriptions: false,
       oldImplementsSyntax: false,
@@ -36,6 +39,7 @@ export class Configuration {
     this.schema = null;
     this.sourceMap = null;
     this.rules = null;
+    this.rulePackages = this.options.customRulePackages;
     this.builtInRulePaths = path.join(__dirname, 'rules/*.js');
     this.rulePaths = this.options.customRulePaths.concat(this.builtInRulePaths);
   }
@@ -129,11 +133,30 @@ export class Configuration {
       return this.rules;
     }
 
-    this.rules = this.getRulesFromPaths(this.rulePaths);
+    const packageRules = this.getRulesFromPackages(this.rulePackages);
+    const pathRules = this.getRulesFromPaths(this.rulePaths);
+
+    this.rules = packageRules.concat(pathRules);
 
     return this.rules;
   }
 
+  getRulesFromPackages(rulePackages) {
+    const rules = new Set([]);
+
+    rulePackages.map(rulePackage => {
+      // We can't simply call `require()` because it needs to be from the project's node_modules
+      const rulePackagePath = ModuleResolver.resolve(
+        rulePackage,
+        path.join(process.cwd(), '__placeholder__.js')
+      );
+      let ruleMap = require(rulePackagePath);
+      Object.keys(ruleMap).forEach(k => rules.add(ruleMap[k]));
+    });
+
+    return Array.from(rules);
+  }
+
   getRulesFromPaths(rulePaths) {
     const expandedPaths = expandPaths(rulePaths);
     const rules = new Set([]);
@@ -156,23 +179,43 @@ export class Configuration {
     let rules;
 
     try {
-      rules = this.getAllRules();
+      rules = this.getRulesFromPackages(this.rulePackages);
     } catch (e) {
       if (e.code === 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND') {
         issues.push({
           message: `There was an issue loading the specified custom rules: '${
             e.message.split('\n')[0]
           }'`,
-          field: 'custom-rule-paths',
+          field: 'custom-rule-packages',
           type: 'error',
         });
 
-        rules = this.getAllBuiltInRules();
+        rules = [];
+      } else {
+        throw e;
+      }
+    }
+
+    try {
+      rules = rules.concat(this.getRulesFromPaths(this.rulePaths));
+    } catch (e) {
+      if (e.code === 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND') {
+        issues.push({
+          message: `There was an issue loading the specified custom rules: '${
+            e.message.split('\n')[0]
+          }'`,
+          field: 'custom-rule-paths',
+          type: 'error',
+        });
       } else {
         throw e;
       }
     }
 
+    if (rules.length === 0) {
+      rules = this.getAllBuiltInRules();
+    }
+
     const ruleNames = rules.map(rule => rule.name);
 
     let misConfiguredRuleNames = []
@@ -234,6 +277,7 @@ function loadOptionsFromConfig(configDirectory) {
 
     return {
       rules: cosmic.config.rules,
+      customRulePackages: cosmic.config.customRulePackages,
       customRulePaths: customRulePaths || [],
       schemaPaths: schemaPaths,
     };
diff --git a/src/relative_module_resolver.js b/src/relative_module_resolver.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..275af8e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/relative_module_resolver.js
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/**
+ * Utility for resolving a module relative to another module
+ * @author Teddy Katz
+ * Copied from https://github.com/eslint/eslint/blob/master/lib/shared/relative-module-resolver.js
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const Module = require('module');
+
+/*
+ * `Module.createRequire` is added in v12.2.0. It supports URL as well.
+ * We only support the case where the argument is a filepath, not a URL.
+ */
+const createRequire = Module.createRequire || Module.createRequireFromPath;
+
+module.exports = {
+  /**
+   * Resolves a Node module relative to another module
+   * @param {string} moduleName The name of a Node module, or a path to a Node module.
+   * @param {string} relativeToPath An absolute path indicating the module that `moduleName` should be resolved relative to. This must be
+   * a file rather than a directory, but the file need not actually exist.
+   * @returns {string} The absolute path that would result from calling `require.resolve(moduleName)` in a file located at `relativeToPath`
+   */
+  resolve(moduleName, relativeToPath) {
+    try {
+      return createRequire(relativeToPath).resolve(moduleName);
+    } catch (error) {
+      // This `if` block is for older Node.js than 12.0.0. We can remove this block in the future.
+      if (
+        typeof error === 'object' &&
+        error !== null &&
+        error.code === 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND' &&
+        !error.requireStack &&
+        error.message.includes(moduleName)
+      ) {
+        error.message += `\nRequire stack:\n- ${relativeToPath}`;
+      }
+      throw error;
+    }
+  },
+};