diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 0fd95d1..6a61fab 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -718,6 +718,22 @@ export function RegisterRoute(handler: RouteHandler) {
   return id;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Unregister a route registered with {@link RegisterRoute}.
+ *
+ * Routes are otherwise only released when their module unloads, so anything
+ * with a shorter life than its module — a CMS page taken down while the module
+ * stays up, a controller mounted for the duration of a job — kept answering
+ * after the thing that registered it was gone. The proxy is not reachable from
+ * a consumer: interface resolution rebinds it, so the handle has to come from
+ * here.
+ *
+ * @param id Route ID returned by {@link RegisterRoute}.
+ */
+export function UnregisterRoute(id: number): void {
+  routesProxy.unregister(id.toString());
+}
+
 /**
  * Retrieves all registered routes with detailed information.
  * @returns {Array<Object>} An array of route information objects.
diff --git a/src/tests/route-lifecycle.test.ts b/src/tests/route-lifecycle.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c068935
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tests/route-lifecycle.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import assert from "node:assert";
+import {
+  getRegisteredRoutes,
+  RegisterRoute,
+  type RouteHandler,
+  routesProxy,
+  UnregisterRoute,
+} from "../index";
+
+function handlerAt(location: string): RouteHandler {
+  return {
+    location,
+    method: "GET",
+    mode: "handler",
+    parameters: [],
+    properties: {},
+    proto: {},
+    callback: async () => new Response(),
+  } as unknown as RouteHandler;
+}
+
+function routesAt(location: string): number {
+  return getRegisteredRoutes().filter((route) => route.location === location)
+    .length;
+}
+
+describe("Route lifecycle", () => {
+  // These run against the local build, whose proxy no module attaches in the
+  // test harness (the api module binds the harness-distributed copy). A
+  // recording provider both keeps the stub-mode proxy from throwing and lets
+  // the cases assert what reaches the real registry.
+  const proxyCalls: Array<{ kind: "register" | "unregister"; id: string }> = [];
+
+  before(() => {
+    routesProxy.onRegister((id: string) => {
+      proxyCalls.push({ kind: "register", id });
+    }, true);
+    routesProxy.onUnregister((id: string) => {
+      proxyCalls.push({ kind: "unregister", id });
+    });
+  });
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    proxyCalls.length = 0;
+  });
+
+  it("releases a route by the id RegisterRoute returned", () => {
+    const id = RegisterRoute(handlerAt("/lifecycle/released"));
+    const bystander = RegisterRoute(handlerAt("/lifecycle/bystander"));
+    assert.equal(routesAt("/lifecycle/released"), 1);
+
+    UnregisterRoute(id);
+
+    // Gone from the public listing, and only the targeted route: the
+    // bystander keeps serving.
+    assert.equal(routesAt("/lifecycle/released"), 0);
+    assert.equal(routesAt("/lifecycle/bystander"), 1);
+    // The proxy heard the unregister under the id RegisterRoute handed out,
+    // as a string — the registry is keyed that way.
+    assert.deepEqual(proxyCalls.at(-1), {
+      kind: "unregister",
+      id: id.toString(),
+    });
+    UnregisterRoute(bystander);
+    assert.equal(routesAt("/lifecycle/bystander"), 0);
+  });
+
+  it("tolerates unregistering the same id twice", () => {
+    const id = RegisterRoute(handlerAt("/lifecycle/twice"));
+    UnregisterRoute(id);
+
+    assert.doesNotThrow(() => UnregisterRoute(id));
+    assert.equal(routesAt("/lifecycle/twice"), 0);
+  });
+
+  it("ignores an id that was never registered", () => {
+    const before = getRegisteredRoutes().length;
+
+    assert.doesNotThrow(() => UnregisterRoute(999_999));
+
+    assert.equal(getRegisteredRoutes().length, before);
+  });
+});