diff --git a/.changeset/spicy-bats-search.md b/.changeset/spicy-bats-search.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8e6e5b3505bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/spicy-bats-search.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'create-astro': patch
+---
+
+Parse --renderers flag correctly when passed to the create-astro cli
diff --git a/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts b/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
index 1334c747adf5..d4bdb78caec4 100644
--- a/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import { createConfig } from './config.js';
 // broke our arg parser, since `--` is a special kind of flag. Filtering for `--` here
 // fixes the issue so that create-astro now works on all npm version.
 const cleanArgv = process.argv.filter((arg) => arg !== '--');
-const args = yargs(cleanArgv);
+const args = yargs(cleanArgv, { array: ['renderers'] });
 prompts.override(args);
 
 export function mkdirp(dir: string) {