diff --git a/.changeset/silent-vendor-hermes.md b/.changeset/silent-vendor-hermes.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..272847f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/silent-vendor-hermes.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+"react-native-node-api": patch
+---
+
+Make `vendor-hermes --silent` actually silent. The spinners were passed
+`isEnabled: false`, which stops the animation but still writes the spinner text
+and its final symbol to stderr. They now use `isSilent`, which suppresses the
+output entirely, leaving the vendored Hermes path on stdout as the command's
+only output.
diff --git a/packages/host/src/node/cli/hermes.ts b/packages/host/src/node/cli/hermes.ts
index b1f74a3c..74f8680b 100644
--- a/packages/host/src/node/cli/hermes.ts
+++ b/packages/host/src/node/cli/hermes.ts
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ export const command = new Command("vendor-hermes")
             successText: "Removed existing Hermes clone",
             failText: (error) =>
               `Failed to remove existing Hermes clone: ${error.message}`,
-            isEnabled: !silent,
+            isSilent: silent,
           },
         );
       }
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ export const command = new Command("vendor-hermes")
               text: `Cloning Hermes into ${prettyPath(hermesPath)}`,
               successText: "Cloned Hermes",
               failText: (err) => `Failed to clone Hermes: ${err.message}`,
-              isEnabled: !silent,
+              isSilent: silent,
             },
           );
         } catch (error) {