diff --git a/tools/shims/xargs b/tools/shims/xargs
index 30a0e8c..d3e8eeb 100755
--- a/tools/shims/xargs
+++ b/tools/shims/xargs
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ invocation constructed from stdin tokens.
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import os
 import subprocess
 import sys