diff --git a/babashka.core b/babashka.core
index 1f833230..52a6037b 160000
--- a/babashka.core
+++ b/babashka.core
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 1f83323081e314c4630f8b06bb14f2ef7786ef9c
+Subproject commit 52a6037bd4b632bffffb04394fb4efd0cdab6b1e
diff --git a/deps.edn b/deps.edn
index 9c36d83e..f151522a 100644
--- a/deps.edn
+++ b/deps.edn
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
         borkdude/sci {:local/root "sci"}
         babashka/babashka.curl {:local/root "babashka.curl"}
         babashka/fs {:local/root "fs"}
+        babashka/babashka.core {:local/root "babashka.core"}
         borkdude/graal.locking {:mvn/version "0.0.2"},
         org.clojure/core.async {:mvn/version "1.4.627"},
         org.clojure/tools.cli {:mvn/version "1.0.206"},
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 565462c9..d49d9524 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   :license {:name "Eclipse Public License 1.0"
             :url "http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php"}
   :source-paths ["src" "sci/src" "babashka.curl/src" "fs/src" "pods/src"
+                 "babashka.core/src"
                  "babashka.nrepl/src" "depstar/src" "process/src"
                  "deps.clj/src" "deps.clj/resources"]
   ;; for debugging Reflector.java code:
diff --git a/src/babashka/main.clj b/src/babashka/main.clj
index 0245d172..10b3e668 100644
--- a/src/babashka/main.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/main.clj
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
    [babashka.impl.common :as common]
    [babashka.impl.curl :refer [curl-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.data :as data]
+   [babashka.impl.core  :as bbcore]
    [babashka.impl.datafy :refer [datafy-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.deps :as deps :refer [deps-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.error-handler :refer [error-handler]]
@@ -331,6 +332,7 @@ Use bb run --help to show this help output.
                         nil)}
        'clojure.tools.cli tools-cli-namespace
        'clojure.java.shell shell-namespace
+       'babashka.core bbcore/core-namespace
        'babashka.wait wait-namespace
        'babashka.signal signal-ns
        'clojure.java.io io-namespace