diff --git a/crates/vite_task/src/schedule.rs b/crates/vite_task/src/schedule.rs
index 73a82b7e86..a9cd43d72d 100644
--- a/crates/vite_task/src/schedule.rs
+++ b/crates/vite_task/src/schedule.rs
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ pub struct PreExecutionStatus {
     pub cache_status: CacheStatus,
     pub display_options: DisplayOptions,
 }
+
 #[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, Clone)]
 pub enum CacheStatus {
     /// Cache miss with reason.
@@ -127,8 +128,31 @@ impl ExecutionPlan {
     #[tracing::instrument(skip(self, workspace))]
     pub async fn execute(self, workspace: &mut Workspace) -> Result<ExecutionSummary, Error> {
         let mut execution_statuses = Vec::<ExecutionStatus>::with_capacity(self.steps.len());
+        let mut has_failed = false;
         for step in self.steps {
-            execution_statuses.push(Self::execute_resolved_task(step, workspace).await?);
+            if has_failed {
+                // skip executing the task and display the task name and index
+                let display_options = step.display_options;
+                execution_statuses.push(ExecutionStatus {
+                    execution_id: Uuid::new_v4().to_string(),
+                    pre_execution_status: PreExecutionStatus {
+                        display_command: get_display_command(display_options, &step),
+                        task: step,
+                        cache_status: CacheStatus::CacheMiss(CacheMiss::NotFound),
+                        display_options,
+                    },
+                    execution_result: Err(ExecutionFailure::SkippedDueToFailedDependency),
+                });
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            let status = Self::execute_resolved_task(step, workspace).await?;
+            if let Ok(exit_status) = status.execution_result {
+                if exit_status != 0 {
+                    has_failed = true;
+                }
+            }
+            execution_statuses.push(status);
         }
         Ok(ExecutionSummary { execution_statuses })
     }
diff --git a/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/failure.js b/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/failure.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ea3e5e02e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/failure.js
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+console.log('failure');
+process.exit(1);
diff --git a/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/package.json b/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..50295b344b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "scripts": {
+    "ready": "vite run test && vite run script4",
+    "test": "vite run script1 && vite run script2 && vite run script3",
+    "script1": "echo 'success 1'",
+    "script2": "node failure.js",
+    "script3": "echo 'success 3'",
+    "script4": "echo 'success 4'"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/snap.txt b/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/snap.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eebf0e3cbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/snap.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+[1]> vite run test # skip script3 when script2 failed
+$ echo 'success 1'
+success 1
+
+
+$ node failure.js
+failure
+
+
+
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+    Vite+ Task Runner • Execution Summary
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+Statistics:   3 tasks • 0 cache hits • 3 cache misses • 1 failed
+Performance:  0% cache hit rate
+
+Task Details:
+────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  [1] script1: $ echo 'success 1' ✓
+      → Cache miss: no previous cache entry found
+  ·······················································
+  [2] script2: $ node failure.js ✗ (exit code: 1)
+      → Cache miss: no previous cache entry found
+  ·······················································
+  [3] test: $ vite run script3 ⊘ (skipped: dependency failed)
+      → Cache miss: no previous cache entry found
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+[1]> vite run ready # support nested tasks
+$ echo 'success 1' (✓ cache hit, replaying)
+success 1
+
+
+$ node failure.js
+failure
+
+
+
+
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+    Vite+ Task Runner • Execution Summary
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+Statistics:   4 tasks • 1 cache hits • 3 cache misses • 1 failed
+Performance:  25% cache hit rate, <variable>ms saved in total
+
+Task Details:
+────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  [1] script1: $ echo 'success 1' ✓
+      → Cache hit - output replayed - <variable>ms saved
+  ·······················································
+  [2] script2: $ node failure.js ✗ (exit code: 1)
+      → Cache miss: no previous cache entry found
+  ·······················································
+  [3] test: $ vite run script3 ⊘ (skipped: dependency failed)
+      → Cache miss: no previous cache entry found
+  ·······················································
+  [4] ready: $ vite run script4 ⊘ (skipped: dependency failed)
+      → Cache miss: no previous cache entry found
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
diff --git a/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/steps.json b/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/steps.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f7c32510ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/snap-tests/fail-fast/steps.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "env": {
+    "VITE_DISABLE_AUTO_INSTALL": "1"
+  },
+  "commands": [
+    "vite run test # skip script3 when script2 failed",
+    "vite run ready # support nested tasks"
+  ]
+}