diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 081a4178..e77212b9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ A preview of the next release can be installed from
 
 - Add `run-test` and `run-test-var` to `clojure.test`
 - Compile distributed uberjar using GraalVM, fixes `babashka.process/exec` for Nix
+- [#1414](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1414): preserve metadata on exec task function argument map
 
 ## 1.0.165 (2022-11-01)
 
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/cli.clj b/src/babashka/impl/cli.clj
index fcbbe8ef..753e99a7 100644
--- a/src/babashka/impl/cli.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/cli.clj
@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@
                                         (:org.babashka/cli the-var-meta)
                                         (:org.babashka/cli ct)
                                         extra-opts)
-      opts (babashka.cli/parse-opts *command-line-args* cli-opts)
       task-exec-args (:exec-args ct)
       cli-exec-args (:exec-args cli-opts)
-      opts (babashka.cli/merge-opts cli-exec-args task-exec-args opts)]
+      exec-args {:exec-args (babashka.cli/merge-opts cli-exec-args task-exec-args)}
+      cli-opts (babashka.cli/merge-opts exec-args cli-opts)
+      opts (babashka.cli/parse-opts *command-line-args* cli-opts)]
 (the-var opts))"
            (random-uuid)
            (pr-str extra-opts)
diff --git a/test-resources/babashka/exec_test.clj b/test-resources/babashka/exec_test.clj
index 6eca718f..a18676bf 100644
--- a/test-resources/babashka/exec_test.clj
+++ b/test-resources/babashka/exec_test.clj
@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@
 (defn exec-test
   {:org.babashka/cli {:coerce {:bar :keyword}}}
   [m]
-  (prn m))
+  (if (:meta m)
+    (prn (meta m))
+    (prn m)))
diff --git a/test/babashka/exec_test.clj b/test/babashka/exec_test.clj
index 4493e356..4a990520 100644
--- a/test/babashka/exec_test.clj
+++ b/test/babashka/exec_test.clj
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
    [babashka.test-utils :as u]
    [cheshire.core :as cheshire]
    [clojure.edn :as edn]
-   [clojure.test :as t :refer [deftest is]]))
+   [clojure.test :as t :refer [deftest is testing]]))
 
 (defn bb [& args]
   (apply u/bb nil args))
@@ -33,4 +33,17 @@
     "{:deps {}
       :tasks {foo {:task (exec 'babashka.exec-test/exec-test)}}}"
     (is (= {:foo [1], :bar :yeah}
-           (edn/read-string (bb "-cp" "test-resources" "run" "foo" "--foo" "1" "--bar" "yeah"))))))
+           (edn/read-string (bb "-cp" "test-resources" "run" "foo" "--foo" "1" "--bar" "yeah")))))
+  (testing "task exec args"
+    (u/with-config
+      "{:deps {}
+      :tasks {foo {:exec-args {:foo :bar}
+                   :task (exec 'babashka.exec-test/exec-test)}}}"
+      (is (= {:foo :bar, :bar :yeah}
+             (edn/read-string (bb "-cp" "test-resources" "run" "foo" "--bar" "yeah"))))))
+  (testing "meta"
+    (u/with-config
+      "{:deps {}
+        :tasks {foo {:task (exec 'babashka.exec-test/exec-test)}}}"
+      (is (= #:org.babashka{:cli {:args ["dude"]}}
+             (edn/read-string (bb "-cp" "test-resources" "run" "foo" "dude" "--bar" "yeah" "--meta")))))))