diff --git a/mise.toml b/mise.toml
index c30c4d4109e..3a53e04c03c 100644
--- a/mise.toml
+++ b/mise.toml
@@ -72,7 +72,12 @@ lazygit = "0.61.1"
 # module's `command -v devcontainer` short-circuit fires
 "npm:@devcontainers/cli" = "0.87.0"
 # Vercel CLI for deploying/previewing projects from dogfood workspaces.
-vercel = "54.14.0"
+# Restricted to Linux/macOS because mise installs this through `npm:vercel`,
+# which spawns `node install.js` from cmd.exe on Windows. mise's `node` lives
+# only in the shim dir at install time, so `node` is not on PATH and the
+# install fails with `'node' is not recognized` (coder/internal#1596). The
+# CLI is only needed in dogfood workspaces, which are Linux.
+vercel = { version = "54.14.0", os = ["linux", "macos"] }
 # weekly-docs uses this pinned Puppeteer browser installer to install Chrome for
 # action-linkspector without resolving mutable npm metadata at runtime.
 "npm:@puppeteer/browsers" = "2.13.0"