diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index 7aaeb2ef88..75335de611 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Release with new features and bugfixes:
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/2039[#2039]: IDE logo not shown in mac task bar
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/2176[#2176]: Support 7z archive extraction
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/2100[#2100]: Fix Python not available for Mac x64
+* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/2188[#2188]: Fix Spyder commandlet starts spyder in foreground
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/2224[#2224]: Brew upgrade ideasy not working
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1784[#1784]: GUI now supports displaying progress bars
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1917[#1917]: Allow the creation of a desktop shortcut for the GUI
diff --git a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/pip/PipBasedIdeToolCommandlet.java b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/pip/PipBasedIdeToolCommandlet.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..30c8be9a3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/pip/PipBasedIdeToolCommandlet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.pip;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.common.Tag;
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.context.IdeContext;
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.process.ProcessMode;
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.process.ProcessResult;
+
+/**
+ * Base class for pip-based IDE tools that should launch in the background instead of blocking the terminal.
+ */
+public abstract class PipBasedIdeToolCommandlet extends PipBasedCommandlet {
+
+  /**
+   * The constructor.
+   *
+   * @param context the {@link IdeContext}.
+   * @param tool the {@link #getName() tool name}.
+   * @param tags the {@link #getTags() tags} classifying the tool.
+   */
+  public PipBasedIdeToolCommandlet(IdeContext context, String tool, Set<Tag> tags) {
+    super(context, tool, tags);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public ProcessResult runTool(List<String> args) {
+    return runTool(ProcessMode.BACKGROUND, null, args);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/spyder/Spyder.java b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/spyder/Spyder.java
index 43edfec117..2a27df1c72 100644
--- a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/spyder/Spyder.java
+++ b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/spyder/Spyder.java
@@ -4,14 +4,17 @@
 
 import com.devonfw.tools.ide.common.Tag;
 import com.devonfw.tools.ide.context.IdeContext;
-import com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolCommandlet;
-import com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.pip.Pip;
-import com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.pip.PipBasedCommandlet;
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.process.EnvironmentContext;
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolInstallation;
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.pip.PipBasedIdeToolCommandlet;
 
 /**
- * {@link PipBasedCommandlet} for <a href="https://www.spyder-ide.org/">Spyder</a>.
+ * {@link PipBasedIdeToolCommandlet} for <a href="https://www.spyder-ide.org/">Spyder</a>.
  */
-public class Spyder extends PipBasedCommandlet {
+public class Spyder extends PipBasedIdeToolCommandlet {
+
+  /** Environment variable that tells Spyder to use an IDEasy-managed config directory instead of the shared user config. */
+  private static final String SPYDER_CONFIG_DIR = "SPYDER_CONFIG_DIR";
 
   /**
    * The constructor.
@@ -22,5 +25,13 @@ public Spyder(IdeContext context) {
     super(context, "spyder", Set.of(Tag.SPYDER));
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public void setEnvironment(EnvironmentContext environmentContext, ToolInstallation toolInstallation, boolean additionalInstallation) {
+    super.setEnvironment(environmentContext, toolInstallation, additionalInstallation);
 
+    // Point Spyder to an IDEasy-managed config directory so its settings stay isolated per IDE_HOME.
+    if (this.context.getConfPath() != null) {
+      environmentContext.withEnvVar(SPYDER_CONFIG_DIR, this.context.getConfPath().resolve("spyder").toString());
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/cli/src/test/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/spyder/SpyderTest.java b/cli/src/test/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/spyder/SpyderTest.java
index 2b64e9760d..1c9326d282 100644
--- a/cli/src/test/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/spyder/SpyderTest.java
+++ b/cli/src/test/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/spyder/SpyderTest.java
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 package com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.spyder;
 
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import com.devonfw.tools.ide.context.AbstractIdeContextTest;
 import com.devonfw.tools.ide.context.IdeTestContext;
 import com.devonfw.tools.ide.os.SystemInfoMock;
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolInstallation;
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.claude.RecordingEnvironmentContext;
 import com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.pip.PipBasedCommandlet;
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.pip.PipBasedIdeToolCommandlet;
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.version.VersionIdentifier;
 import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.junit5.WireMockRuntimeInfo;
 import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.junit5.WireMockTest;
 
@@ -43,7 +49,7 @@ void testSpyderInstall(WireMockRuntimeInfo wireMockRuntimeInfo) {
    * @param wireMockRuntimeInfo wireMock server on a random port
    */
   @Test
-  void testSpyderIsPipBasedCommandlet(WireMockRuntimeInfo wireMockRuntimeInfo) {
+  void testSpyderIsPipBasedIdeToolCommandlet(WireMockRuntimeInfo wireMockRuntimeInfo) {
 
     // arrange
     IdeTestContext context = newContext(PROJECT_PIP, wireMockRuntimeInfo);
@@ -53,6 +59,23 @@ void testSpyderIsPipBasedCommandlet(WireMockRuntimeInfo wireMockRuntimeInfo) {
     Spyder commandlet = new Spyder(context);
 
     // assert
-    assertThat(commandlet).isInstanceOf(PipBasedCommandlet.class);
+    assertThat(commandlet).isInstanceOf(PipBasedIdeToolCommandlet.class);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  void testSpyderSetEnvironmentUsesIsolatedConfigDir() {
+
+    // arrange
+    IdeTestContext context = newContext(PROJECT_PIP);
+    Spyder commandlet = new Spyder(context);
+    Path rootDir = context.getSoftwarePath().resolve("spyder");
+    ToolInstallation installation = new ToolInstallation(rootDir, rootDir, rootDir.resolve("bin"), VersionIdentifier.of("1.0.0"), false);
+    RecordingEnvironmentContext environmentContext = new RecordingEnvironmentContext();
+
+    // act
+    commandlet.setEnvironment(environmentContext, installation, false);
+
+    // assert
+    assertThat(environmentContext.set).containsEntry("SPYDER_CONFIG_DIR", context.getConfPath().resolve("spyder").toString());
   }
 }