diff --git a/.changeset/funny-papayas-rest.md b/.changeset/funny-papayas-rest.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..95f52966ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/funny-papayas-rest.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+'@backstage/repo-tools': patch
+'@backstage/codemods': patch
+---
+
+Updated to use new utilities from `@backstage/cli-common`.
diff --git a/packages/codemods/src/action.ts b/packages/codemods/src/action.ts
index b955ab17ea..467dd35f82 100644
--- a/packages/codemods/src/action.ts
+++ b/packages/codemods/src/action.ts
@@ -15,11 +15,9 @@
  */
 
 import { relative as relativePath } from 'path';
-import { spawn } from 'child_process';
 import { OptionValues } from 'commander';
-import { findPaths } from '@backstage/cli-common';
+import { findPaths, run } from '@backstage/cli-common';
 import { platform } from 'os';
-import { ExitCodeError } from './errors';
 
 // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
 const paths = findPaths(__dirname);
@@ -51,42 +49,25 @@ export function createCodemodAction(name: string) {
 
     console.log(`Running jscodeshift with these arguments: ${args.join(' ')}`);
 
-    let command;
+    let commandArgs: string[];
     if (platform() === 'win32') {
-      command = 'jscodeshift';
+      commandArgs = ['jscodeshift', ...args];
     } else {
       // jscodeshift ships a slightly broken bin script with windows
       // line endings so we need to execute it using node rather than
       // letting the `#!/usr/bin/env node` take care of it
-      command = process.argv0;
-      args.unshift(require.resolve('.bin/jscodeshift'));
+      commandArgs = [
+        process.argv0,
+        require.resolve('.bin/jscodeshift'),
+        ...args,
+      ];
     }
 
-    const child = spawn(command, args, {
-      stdio: 'inherit',
-      shell: true,
+    await run(commandArgs, {
       env: {
         ...process.env,
         FORCE_COLOR: 'true',
       },
-    });
-
-    if (typeof child.exitCode === 'number') {
-      if (child.exitCode) {
-        throw new ExitCodeError(child.exitCode, name);
-      }
-      return;
-    }
-
-    await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
-      child.once('error', error => reject(error));
-      child.once('exit', code => {
-        if (code) {
-          reject(new ExitCodeError(code, name));
-        } else {
-          resolve();
-        }
-      });
-    });
+    }).waitForExit();
   };
 }
diff --git a/packages/codemods/src/errors.ts b/packages/codemods/src/errors.ts
index 2f67b94ae1..e27f66895c 100644
--- a/packages/codemods/src/errors.ts
+++ b/packages/codemods/src/errors.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  */
 
 import chalk from 'chalk';
+import { ExitCodeError } from '@backstage/cli-common';
 
 export class CustomError extends Error {
   get name(): string {
@@ -22,19 +23,6 @@ export class CustomError extends Error {
   }
 }
 
-export class ExitCodeError extends CustomError {
-  readonly code: number;
-
-  constructor(code: number, command?: string) {
-    if (command) {
-      super(`Command '${command}' exited with code ${code}`);
-    } else {
-      super(`Child exited with code ${code}`);
-    }
-    this.code = code;
-  }
-}
-
 export function exitWithError(error: Error): never {
   if (error instanceof ExitCodeError) {
     process.stderr.write(`\n${chalk.red(error.message)}\n\n`);
diff --git a/packages/repo-tools/src/commands/api-reports/api-reports/generateTypeDeclarations.ts b/packages/repo-tools/src/commands/api-reports/api-reports/generateTypeDeclarations.ts
index d7304553c0..a51c9ed17b 100644
--- a/packages/repo-tools/src/commands/api-reports/api-reports/generateTypeDeclarations.ts
+++ b/packages/repo-tools/src/commands/api-reports/api-reports/generateTypeDeclarations.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  */
 
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
-import { spawnSync } from 'child_process';
+import { run, ExitCodeError } from '@backstage/cli-common';
 import { paths as cliPaths } from '../../../lib/paths';
 
 /**
@@ -30,21 +30,26 @@ import { paths as cliPaths } from '../../../lib/paths';
  */
 export async function generateTypeDeclarations(tsconfigFilePath: string) {
   await fs.remove(cliPaths.resolveTargetRoot('dist-types'));
-  const { status } = spawnSync(
-    'yarn',
-    [
-      'tsc',
-      ['--project', tsconfigFilePath],
-      ['--skipLibCheck', 'false'],
-      ['--incremental', 'false'],
-    ].flat(),
-    {
-      stdio: 'inherit',
-      shell: true,
-      cwd: cliPaths.targetRoot,
-    },
-  );
-  if (status !== 0) {
-    process.exit(status || undefined);
+  try {
+    await run(
+      [
+        'yarn',
+        'tsc',
+        '--project',
+        tsconfigFilePath,
+        '--skipLibCheck',
+        'false',
+        '--incremental',
+        'false',
+      ],
+      {
+        cwd: cliPaths.targetRoot,
+      },
+    ).waitForExit();
+  } catch (error) {
+    if (error instanceof ExitCodeError) {
+      process.exit(error.code);
+    }
+    throw error;
   }
 }