diff --git a/tvix/eval/src/builtins/mod.rs b/tvix/eval/src/builtins/mod.rs
index 050481eb7..d767d09b9 100644
--- a/tvix/eval/src/builtins/mod.rs
+++ b/tvix/eval/src/builtins/mod.rs
@@ -194,6 +194,21 @@ fn pure_builtins() -> Vec<Builtin> {
             &[false, false],
             |args: Vec<Value>, vm: &mut VM| arithmetic_op!(&*args[0].force(vm)?, &*args[1].force(vm)?, /),
         ),
+        Builtin::new("dirOf", &[true], |args: Vec<Value>, vm: &mut VM| {
+            let s = args[0].coerce_to_string(CoercionKind::Weak, vm)?;
+            let result = s
+                .rsplit_once('/')
+                .map(|(x, _)| match x {
+                    "" => "/",
+                    _ => x,
+                })
+                .unwrap_or(".");
+            if args[0].is_path() {
+                Ok(Value::Path(result.into()))
+            } else {
+                Ok(result.into())
+            }
+        }),
         Builtin::new("elem", &[true, true], |args: Vec<Value>, vm: &mut VM| {
             for val in args[1].to_list()? {
                 if val.nix_eq(&args[0], vm)? {
diff --git a/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-dirof.exp b/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-dirof.exp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff464e4c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-dirof.exp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[ /foo "." "foo//" "foo" "." "." / "/" ]
diff --git a/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-dirof.nix b/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-dirof.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..13cf47320
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-dirof.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[
+  (builtins.dirOf /foo/bar)
+  (builtins.dirOf "foo")
+  (builtins.dirOf "foo///")
+  (builtins.dirOf "foo/bar")
+  (builtins.dirOf "./.")
+  (builtins.dirOf "")
+  (builtins.dirOf /.)
+  (builtins.toString (builtins.dirOf /.))
+]
diff --git a/tvix/eval/src/value/mod.rs b/tvix/eval/src/value/mod.rs
index c8c8a54a4..8672ffc1b 100644
--- a/tvix/eval/src/value/mod.rs
+++ b/tvix/eval/src/value/mod.rs
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ impl Value {
     gen_cast!(to_list, NixList, "list", Value::List(l), l.clone());
     gen_cast!(to_closure, Closure, "lambda", Value::Closure(c), c.clone());
 
+    gen_is!(is_path, Value::Path(_));
     gen_is!(is_number, Value::Integer(_) | Value::Float(_));
     gen_is!(is_bool, Value::Bool(_));