diff --git a/commodore/cli/__init__.py b/commodore/cli/__init__.py
index 1db42b4b..79779c97 100644
--- a/commodore/cli/__init__.py
+++ b/commodore/cli/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import multiprocessing
+
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import click
@@ -55,6 +57,8 @@ def commodore(ctx, working_dir, verbose):
 
 
 def main():
+    multiprocessing.set_start_method("spawn")
+
     load_dotenv(dotenv_path=find_dotenv(usecwd=True))
     commodore.main(
         prog_name="commodore", auto_envvar_prefix="COMMODORE", max_content_width=100