diff --git a/docs/modules/cross-spawn.md b/docs/modules/cross-spawn.md
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+---
+description: Modern alternatives to the cross-spawn package for spawning child processes
+---
+
+# Replacements for `cross-spawn`
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> If your application does not need to support Windows, you can likely drop `cross-spawn` entirely as it solely exists to provide Windows spawn compatibility. You can use the built-in `node:child_process` in that case.
+
+## `tinyexec`
+
+[`tinyexec`](https://github.com/tinylibs/tinyexec) is a minimal, dependency-free process execution library.
+
+`cross-spawn` follows the Node.js `spawn` API and returns a `ChildProcess`. In comparison, `tinyexec` returns an awaitable result containing the process output and exit code.
+
+Example:
+
+```ts
+import spawn from 'cross-spawn' // [!code --]
+import { x } from 'tinyexec' // [!code ++]
+
+const child = spawn('npm', ['list', '-g']) // [!code --]
+const { stdout, exitCode } = await x('npm', ['list', '-g']) // [!code ++]
+
+child.stdout?.on('data', (output) => console.log(output.toString())) // [!code --]
+console.log(stdout, exitCode) // [!code ++]
+```
diff --git a/manifests/preferred.json b/manifests/preferred.json
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       "replacements": ["fetch", "ofetch", "ky"],
       "url": {"type": "e18e", "id": "fetch"}
     },
+    "cross-spawn": {
+      "type": "module",
+      "moduleName": "cross-spawn",
+      "replacements": ["tinyexec"],
+      "url": {"type": "e18e", "id": "cross-spawn"}
+    },
     "crypto-js": {
       "type": "module",
       "moduleName": "crypto-js",