diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index ff4e0897..c6cd5c6e 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -14,3 +14,6 @@
 [submodule "depstar"]
 	path = depstar
 	url = https://github.com/babashka/depstar
+[submodule "process"]
+	path = process
+	url = https://github.com/babashka/process
diff --git a/deps.edn b/deps.edn
index 3bfbf3b4..77fe72f3 100644
--- a/deps.edn
+++ b/deps.edn
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
          "feature-lanterna"
          "sci/src" "babashka.curl/src" "babashka.pods/src"
          "babashka.nrepl/src"
-         "depstar/src"
+         "depstar/src" "process/src"
          "resources" "sci/resources"],
  :deps {org.clojure/clojure {:mvn/version "1.10.2-alpha1"},
         org.clojure/tools.reader {:mvn/version "1.3.2"},
diff --git a/process b/process
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..2b30f5d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/process
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 2b30f5d478f890bef76534500d883ccb2697dc98
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index a14c16e2..1feb4b26 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -8,7 +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" "babashka.pods/src"
-                 "babashka.nrepl/src" "depstar/src"]
+                 "babashka.nrepl/src" "depstar/src" "process/src"]
   ;; for debugging Reflector.java code:
   ;; :java-source-paths ["sci/reflector/src-java"]
   :java-source-paths ["src-java"]
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/process.clj b/src/babashka/impl/process.clj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..06457a39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/process.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+(ns babashka.impl.process
+  {:no-doc true}
+  (:require [babashka.process :as process]
+            [sci.core :as sci :refer [copy-var]]))
+
+(def tns (sci/create-ns 'babashka.process nil))
+
+(def process-namespace
+  {'process  (copy-var process/process tns)
+   'check    (copy-var process/check tns)
+   'pb       (copy-var process/pb tns)
+   'pipeline (copy-var process/pipeline tns)
+   '$        (copy-var process/$ tns)})
diff --git a/src/babashka/main.clj b/src/babashka/main.clj
index 82e05d24..ca9c84de 100644
--- a/src/babashka/main.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/main.clj
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
    [babashka.impl.features :as features]
    [babashka.impl.pods :as pods]
    [babashka.impl.pprint :refer [pprint-namespace]]
+   [babashka.impl.process :refer [process-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.protocols :refer [protocols-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.reify :refer [reify-opts]]
    [babashka.impl.repl :as repl]
@@ -388,7 +389,8 @@ If neither -e, -f, or --socket-repl are specified, then the first argument that
        'bencode.core bencode-namespace
        'clojure.java.browse browse-namespace
        'clojure.datafy datafy-namespace
-       'clojure.core.protocols protocols-namespace}
+       'clojure.core.protocols protocols-namespace
+       'babashka.process process-namespace}
     features/xml?  (assoc 'clojure.data.xml @(resolve 'babashka.impl.xml/xml-namespace))
     features/yaml? (assoc 'clj-yaml.core @(resolve 'babashka.impl.yaml/yaml-namespace)
                           'flatland.ordered.map @(resolve 'babashka.impl.ordered/ordered-map-ns))