diff --git a/crates/fspy/Cargo.toml b/crates/fspy/Cargo.toml
index fe5b8a476..f80313b1a 100644
--- a/crates/fspy/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/fspy/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,12 @@ fspy_seccomp_unotify = { workspace = true, features = ["supervisor"] }
 nix = { workspace = true, features = ["uio"] }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["bytes"] }
 
-[target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
+# The supervision machinery (`fspy_shared_unix` exec/payload helpers and the
+# `nix` syscalls) is only used by the Linux seccomp and macOS Detours backends
+# in `src/unix/`. FreeBSD builds the no-op backend in `src/freebsd.rs` and does
+# not compile `src/unix/`, so keep those deps off the FreeBSD build graph (and
+# out of its transitive `fspy_nostd`/`fspy_client_unix` subtree).
+[target.'cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "freebsd")))'.dependencies]
 fspy_shared_unix = { workspace = true }
 nix = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "process", "socket", "feature"] }
 
@@ -43,7 +48,7 @@ nix = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "process", "socket", "feature"] }
 # preload) don't build a useless empty cdylib. Scoping artifact deps under
 # `[target.cfg…]` is only safe for normal deps: the same shape under
 # `[target.cfg….build-dependencies]` panics cargo's resolver on cross-compile.
-[target.'cfg(all(unix, not(target_env = "musl")))'.dependencies]
+[target.'cfg(all(unix, not(target_env = "musl"), not(target_os = "freebsd")))'.dependencies]
 fspy_preload_unix = { workspace = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "windows")'.dependencies]
diff --git a/crates/fspy/src/command.rs b/crates/fspy/src/command.rs
index fb150b26c..b4766c398 100644
--- a/crates/fspy/src/command.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy/src/command.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use std::{
     process::Stdio,
 };
 
-#[cfg(unix)]
+#[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "freebsd")))]
 use fspy_shared_unix::exec::Exec;
 use rustc_hash::FxHashMap;
 use tokio::process::Command as TokioCommand;
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ impl Command {
         }
     }
 
-    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "freebsd")))]
     #[must_use]
     pub(crate) fn get_exec(&self) -> Exec {
         use std::{
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ impl Command {
         }
     }
 
-    #[cfg(unix)]
+    #[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "freebsd")))]
     pub(crate) fn set_exec(&mut self, mut exec: Exec) {
         use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStringExt;
 
diff --git a/crates/fspy/src/freebsd.rs b/crates/fspy/src/freebsd.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4d220bcb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/fspy/src/freebsd.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+//! FreeBSD backend for `fspy`.
+//!
+//! Linux uses a seccomp-user-notifications supervisor and macOS uses Detours
+//! + `LD_PRELOAD` interposition to record the file-system accesses of a child
+//! process. FreeBSD has neither of those facilities in this crate, so it
+//! provides a no-op backend: the child process is spawned and waited on
+//! normally, and [`PathAccessIterable::iter`] returns an empty iterator.
+//!
+//! Callers (e.g. `vp_command::run_command_with_fspy`) keep working on
+//! FreeBSD — they simply observe zero path accesses, which is an honest
+//! result for a platform without tracing support.
+
+use std::io;
+
+use futures_util::future::FutureExt;
+use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
+
+use crate::{ChildTermination, Command, TrackedChild, error::SpawnError};
+use fspy_shared::ipc::PathAccess;
+
+/// No-op backend: initialize without creating any on-disk artifacts.
+pub struct SpyImpl;
+
+impl SpyImpl {
+    /// Initialize the (empty) backend. `dir` is unused on FreeBSD because
+    /// there is no preload library or Detours artifact to materialize.
+    #[allow(
+        clippy::unused_self,
+        reason = "init_in takes a directory for parity with the other backends"
+    )]
+    pub fn init_in(_dir: &std::path::Path) -> io::Result<Self> {
+        Ok(Self)
+    }
+
+    /// Spawn the command and wait for its status; report no path accesses.
+    pub async fn spawn(
+        &self,
+        command: Command,
+        cancellation_token: CancellationToken,
+    ) -> Result<TrackedChild, SpawnError> {
+        // `into_tokio_command` applies `current_dir`, `arg0`, args, envs,
+        // stdio, and any pre_exec closures the caller registered. On FreeBSD
+        // none of the supervision machinery is attached, so this is a plain
+        // spawn. `tokio::process::Command::spawn` is synchronous (and the
+        // pre_exec closures may block), so run it off the async runtime the
+        // same way the Linux/macOS backends do.
+        let mut tokio_command = command.into_tokio_command();
+
+        let mut child = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || tokio_command.spawn())
+            .await
+            .map_err(|err| SpawnError::OsSpawn(err.into()))?
+            .map_err(SpawnError::OsSpawn)?;
+
+        // Take the stdio handles before `child` is moved into the background
+        // wait task, matching the Linux/macOS backends.
+        let stdin = child.stdin.take();
+        let stdout = child.stdout.take();
+        let stderr = child.stderr.take();
+
+        // Keep polling for the child to exit in the background even if the
+        // caller never awaits the wait handle; this matches the Linux/macOS
+        // backends (which also need to release supervision resources on
+        // exit).
+        let wait_handle = tokio::spawn(async move {
+            let status = tokio::select! {
+                status = child.wait() => status?,
+                () = cancellation_token.cancelled() => {
+                    child.start_kill()?;
+                    child.wait().await?
+                }
+            };
+            io::Result::Ok(ChildTermination { status, path_accesses: Ok(PathAccessIterable) })
+        })
+        .map(|f| f?) // flatten JoinError and io::Result
+        .boxed();
+
+        Ok(TrackedChild { stdin, stdout, stderr, wait_handle })
+    }
+}
+
+/// No-op path-access iterator: yields no entries on FreeBSD.
+pub struct PathAccessIterable;
+
+impl PathAccessIterable {
+    pub fn iter(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = PathAccess<'_>> {
+        std::iter::empty()
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/fspy/src/lib.rs b/crates/fspy/src/lib.rs
index 5621547f5..267709df3 100644
--- a/crates/fspy/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy/src/lib.rs
@@ -2,18 +2,27 @@
 
 pub mod error;
 
-#[cfg(not(target_env = "musl"))]
+#[cfg(all(not(target_env = "musl"), not(target_os = "freebsd")))]
 mod ipc;
 
-#[cfg(unix)]
+// The `unix/` supervision backend (seccomp supervisor on Linux, Detours
+// artifacts + LD_PRELOAD interposer on macOS) is implemented for those two
+// platforms only. FreeBSD compiles a no-op backend (below) that runs the
+// command without file-access tracing, so the supervision modules and their
+// preload/shared-UNIX dependencies are excluded from the FreeBSD build graph.
+#[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "freebsd")))]
 #[path = "./unix/mod.rs"]
 mod os_impl;
 
+#[cfg(target_os = "freebsd")]
+#[path = "./freebsd.rs"]
+mod os_impl;
+
 #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
 #[path = "./windows/mod.rs"]
 mod os_impl;
 
-#[cfg(unix)]
+#[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "freebsd")))]
 mod arena;
 mod command;
 
diff --git a/crates/fspy_nostd/Cargo.toml b/crates/fspy_nostd/Cargo.toml
index bddf0046d..58fa1aeb0 100644
--- a/crates/fspy_nostd/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/fspy_nostd/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ bitflags = { workspace = true }
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "macos")'.dependencies]
 libc = { workspace = true }
 
+[target.'cfg(target_os = "freebsd")'.dependencies]
+libc = { workspace = true }
+
 [target.'cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none"))'.dependencies]
 # Parsing remains allocation-free and no-std; `atoi` enables `std` by default.
 atoi = { version = "3.1.0", default-features = false }
diff --git a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/c_str.rs b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/c_str.rs
index bf36cdf86..2be728444 100644
--- a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/c_str.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/c_str.rs
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ pub type WideCStr<'a, R> = CStr<'a, R, u16>;
 
 /// A borrowed NUL-terminated string of the platform's native path code
 /// units: bytes on Unix and wide (`u16`) code units on Windows.
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos"))]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 pub type OsCStr<'a, R> = CStr<'a, R>;
 /// A borrowed NUL-terminated string of the platform's native path code
 /// units: bytes on Unix and wide (`u16`) code units on Windows.
diff --git a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/error.rs b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/error.rs
index e6d3d9af4..05b28e262 100644
--- a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/error.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/error.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 use libc::__error;
 #[cfg(windows)]
 use windows_sys::Win32::Foundation::GetLastError;
 
 /// An operating-system error code.
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos"))]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
 #[repr(transparent)]
 pub struct Error(i32);
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ pub struct Error(i32);
 #[repr(transparent)]
 pub struct Error(u32);
 
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos"))]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 impl Error {
     pub const BADF: Self = Self(errno::BADF);
     pub const INVAL: Self = Self(errno::INVAL);
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ impl Error {
     ///
     /// Call this immediately after the failing libc call: anything in between,
     /// including drops, can overwrite the thread-local error code.
-    #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+    #[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
     #[must_use]
     pub fn last_os_error() -> Self {
         // SAFETY: libSystem exposes the calling thread's errno through this
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ mod errno {
     pub const RANGE: i32 = linux_raw_sys::errno::ERANGE.cast_signed();
 }
 
-#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 mod errno {
     pub const BADF: i32 = libc::EBADF;
     pub const INVAL: i32 = libc::EINVAL;
diff --git a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fd.rs b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fd.rs
index 202411033..e48e2beba 100644
--- a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fd.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fd.rs
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ impl Drop for OwnedFd {
             // once. Close errors cannot be acted on during drop.
             let _ = unsafe { syscalls::syscall!(syscalls::Sysno::close, self.fd) };
         }
-        #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+        #[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
         {
             // SAFETY: this type owns the descriptor and closes it exactly
             // once. Close errors cannot be acted on during drop.
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ impl Drop for OwnedFd {
 
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none"))]
 const CWD_RAW: RawFd = linux_raw_sys::general::AT_FDCWD;
-#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 const CWD_RAW: RawFd = libc::AT_FDCWD;
 
 /// The reserved directory descriptor representing the current directory.
diff --git a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/mac.rs b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/mac.rs
index 943dfd417..1b3dc0e2d 100644
--- a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/mac.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/mac.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
-use core::{mem::MaybeUninit, slice};
-
+#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+use crate::CWD;
 use crate::{
-    BorrowedFd, CStr, CWD, Error, Fat, OwnedFd, Result, Thin,
+    BorrowedFd, CStr, Error, Fat, OwnedFd, Result, Thin,
     fs::{AtFlags, Mode, OFlags, Stat},
 };
+use core::mem::MaybeUninit;
+#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+use core::slice;
 
 // Darwin UAPI `MAXPATHLEN`.
 pub(super) const PATH_MAX: usize = 1024;
@@ -84,9 +87,12 @@ pub(super) fn ftruncate(fd: BorrowedFd<'_>, len: u64) -> Result<()> {
 /// This function performs one `fcntl` call and does not retry. `F_GETPATH`
 /// accepts no buffer length and always uses its fixed `MAXPATHLEN` storage.
 ///
+/// macOS-only: `F_GETPATH` is a Darwin `fcntl` command.
+///
 /// # Errors
 ///
 /// Returns the error reported by `fcntl`.
+#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
 pub fn fcntl_getpath<'buf>(
     fd: BorrowedFd<'_>,
     buf: &'buf mut [MaybeUninit<u8>; PATH_MAX],
@@ -104,6 +110,7 @@ pub fn fcntl_getpath<'buf>(
     Ok(unsafe { CStr::from_ptr(buf.as_ptr().cast()) })
 }
 
+#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
 pub(super) fn getcwd(buf: &mut [MaybeUninit<u8>]) -> Result<CStr<'_, Fat>> {
     let (chunks, remainder) = buf.as_chunks_mut::<PATH_MAX>();
     let Some(full) = chunks.first_mut() else {
@@ -112,6 +119,33 @@ pub(super) fn getcwd(buf: &mut [MaybeUninit<u8>]) -> Result<CStr<'_, Fat>> {
     getcwd_full(full)
 }
 
+/// Writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory into `buf`.
+///
+/// Uses the standard `getcwd(2)` call, which writes a NUL-terminated
+/// pathname into the caller-provided buffer.
+///
+/// # Errors
+///
+/// Returns [`Error::RANGE`] when `buf` is too small to hold the pathname;
+/// the empty buffer cannot hold any pathname at all. FreeBSD reports that
+/// case as `EINVAL`, so it is normalized here to match the macOS path.
+#[cfg(target_os = "freebsd")]
+pub(super) fn getcwd(buf: &mut [MaybeUninit<u8>]) -> Result<CStr<'_, Fat>> {
+    // SAFETY: `buf` is writable for `buf.len()` bytes; `getcwd` writes no
+    // more than that and returns a NUL-terminated pathname or null on error.
+    let ptr = unsafe { libc::getcwd(buf.as_mut_ptr().cast(), buf.len()) };
+    if ptr.is_null() {
+        if buf.is_empty() {
+            return Err(Error::RANGE);
+        }
+        return Err(Error::last_os_error());
+    }
+    // SAFETY: `getcwd` wrote a valid NUL-terminated pathname into `buf`.
+    let thin = unsafe { CStr::<Thin>::from_ptr(ptr.cast()) };
+    Ok(thin.count())
+}
+
+#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
 // Keep the `PATH_MAX` scratch storage in a separate stack frame so the
 // large-buffer path does not reserve it. `inline(never)` preserves that
 // conditional stack allocation after optimization.
@@ -142,6 +176,7 @@ fn getcwd_small(buf: &mut [MaybeUninit<u8>]) -> Result<CStr<'_, Fat>> {
 /// common resolution there is.
 ///
 /// [`getcwd`]: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/Libc/blob/Libc-1752.120.2/gen/FreeBSD/getcwd.c#L62-L138
+#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
 fn getcwd_full(buf: &mut [MaybeUninit<u8>; PATH_MAX]) -> Result<CStr<'_, Fat>> {
     // SAFETY: the byte string contains one trailing NUL.
     let dot_path = unsafe { CStr::<Fat>::from_units_with_nul_unchecked(b".\0") };
diff --git a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/mod.rs b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/mod.rs
index bb661566a..c72b8ab5c 100644
--- a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/mod.rs
@@ -2,17 +2,22 @@
 
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none"))]
 mod linux;
-#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 mod mac;
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos"))]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 mod unix;
 #[cfg(windows)]
 mod windows;
 
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos"))]
+#[cfg(any(
+    target_os = "linux",
+    target_os = "none",
+    target_os = "macos",
+    target_os = "freebsd"
+))]
 pub use unix::*;
 #[cfg(windows)]
 pub use windows::*;
 
-#[cfg(all(test, any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos")))]
+#[cfg(all(test, any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd")))]
 mod tests;
diff --git a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/unix.rs b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/unix.rs
index 36c7ceeec..dc1d8f62a 100644
--- a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/unix.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/fs/unix.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use bitflags::bitflags;
 use super::linux as imp;
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none"))]
 pub use super::linux::readlinkat;
-#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 use super::mac as imp;
 #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
 pub use super::mac::fcntl_getpath;
diff --git a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/lib.rs b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/lib.rs
index 8a0ec38cb..7f375e7a0 100644
--- a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/lib.rs
@@ -9,25 +9,42 @@
 
 mod c_str;
 mod error;
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos"))]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 mod fd;
 #[cfg(windows)]
 mod windows;
 
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos"))]
 pub mod env;
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos", windows))]
+#[cfg(any(
+    target_os = "linux",
+    target_os = "none",
+    target_os = "macos",
+    windows,
+    target_os = "freebsd"
+))]
 pub mod fs;
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none"))]
 pub mod io;
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos", windows))]
+#[cfg(any(
+    target_os = "linux",
+    target_os = "none",
+    target_os = "macos",
+    windows,
+    target_os = "freebsd"
+))]
 pub mod mm;
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos"))]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 pub mod param;
 
 pub use c_str::{CStr, CStrUnit, Fat, OsCStr, Thin, Units, WideCStr};
 pub use error::{Error, Result};
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos"))]
+#[cfg(any(
+    target_os = "linux",
+    target_os = "none",
+    target_os = "macos",
+    target_os = "freebsd"
+))]
 pub use fd::{BorrowedFd, CWD, OwnedFd, RawFd};
 #[cfg(windows)]
 pub use windows::{
diff --git a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/mm.rs b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/mm.rs
index 1547a60c3..8af2c9e18 100644
--- a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/mm.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/mm.rs
@@ -2,19 +2,19 @@
 
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none"))]
 mod linux;
-#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 mod mac;
 #[cfg(windows)]
 mod windows;
 
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none"))]
 use linux as imp;
-#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 use mac as imp;
 #[cfg(windows)]
 pub use windows::*;
 
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos"))]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 mod unix {
     use core::ffi::c_void;
 
@@ -133,5 +133,10 @@ mod unix {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none", target_os = "macos"))]
+#[cfg(any(
+    target_os = "linux",
+    target_os = "none",
+    target_os = "macos",
+    target_os = "freebsd"
+))]
 pub use unix::*;
diff --git a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/param.rs b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/param.rs
index 08140a890..d5eaa8b24 100644
--- a/crates/fspy_nostd/src/param.rs
+++ b/crates/fspy_nostd/src/param.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none"))]
 pub use linux::page_size;
-#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 pub use mac::page_size;
 
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "none"))]
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ mod linux {
     }
 }
 
-#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "freebsd"))]
 mod mac {
     /// Returns the process page size, or zero if libSystem cannot report it.
     #[must_use]