diff --git a/task_queue.py b/task_queue.py
index a0b744b..76ee223 100644
--- a/task_queue.py
+++ b/task_queue.py
@@ -725,6 +725,10 @@ async def _execute_command(
         command,
         cwd=working_directory,
         env=env,
+        # The server's own stdin is the MCP stdio transport. A command that inherits it can
+        # read the client's requests or leave the pipe non-blocking (Node does this for any
+        # stdin it touches), after which the server's next read fails and it shuts down.
+        stdin=asyncio.subprocess.DEVNULL,
         stdout=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
         stderr=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
         start_new_session=True,
diff --git a/tests/test_queue.py b/tests/test_queue.py
index c46d4aa..d18666c 100644
--- a/tests/test_queue.py
+++ b/tests/test_queue.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from fastmcp import Client
+from fastmcp.client.transports import PythonStdioTransport
 import queue_core
 import task_queue
 from task_queue import (
@@ -775,6 +776,45 @@ async def test_large_stderr_does_not_deadlock(client):
     assert "done" in read_output_file(str(result))
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_command_cannot_disturb_the_stdio_transport(tmp_path):
+    """A command must not inherit the server's stdin, which carries the MCP stdio transport.
+
+    Node marks any stdin it touches non-blocking. That flag lives on the pipe shared with an
+    inheriting parent, so the server's next read fails and it exits. This test sets the flag
+    directly, so it needs no Node, and runs the server over a real stdio transport because
+    the in-memory client used by the other tests has no stdin to share.
+    """
+    script = "import os; os.set_blocking(0, False)"
+    command = f"{shlex.quote(sys.executable)} -c {shlex.quote(script)}"
+    stdio_client = Client(
+        PythonStdioTransport(
+            Path(task_queue.__file__),
+            args=[f"--data-dir={tmp_path}"],
+            keep_alive=False,
+        )
+    )
+
+    async with stdio_client:
+        run = await stdio_client.call_tool(
+            "run_task",
+            {
+                "command": command,
+                "working_directory": "/tmp",
+                "queue_name": "stdio_transport_test",
+                "timeout_seconds": 5,
+            },
+        )
+        run_result = run.structured_content["result"]
+        status = await stdio_client.call_tool(
+            "task_status",
+            {"task_id": run_result["task_id"], "wait_seconds": 0},
+        )
+
+    assert run_result["status"] == "success"
+    assert status.structured_content["result"]["status"] == "success"
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_background_tool_argument_validation(client):
     async with client: