diff --git a/enterprise/coderd/workspaces_test.go b/enterprise/coderd/workspaces_test.go
index 44244f238f..9d1377610c 100644
--- a/enterprise/coderd/workspaces_test.go
+++ b/enterprise/coderd/workspaces_test.go
@@ -3393,6 +3393,7 @@ func workspaceTagsTerraform(t *testing.T, tc testWorkspaceTagsTerraformCase, dyn
 // This uses the shared testutil caching infrastructure to avoid re-downloading
 // providers on every test run. It is the responsibility of the caller to set
 // TF_CLI_CONFIG_FILE.
+// On Windows, provider caching is not supported and an empty string is returned.
 func downloadProviders(t *testing.T, providersTf string) string {
 	t.Helper()
 
@@ -3401,7 +3402,9 @@ func downloadProviders(t *testing.T, providersTf string) string {
 	testName := "TestWorkspaceTagsTerraform"
 
 	cliConfigPath := testutil.CacheTFProviders(t, cacheRootDir, testName, templateFiles)
-	t.Logf("Set TF_CLI_CONFIG_FILE=%s", cliConfigPath)
+	if cliConfigPath != "" {
+		t.Logf("Set TF_CLI_CONFIG_FILE=%s", cliConfigPath)
+	}
 	return cliConfigPath
 }
 
diff --git a/testutil/terraform_cache_windows.go b/testutil/terraform_cache_windows.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8c7b4bae29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testutil/terraform_cache_windows.go
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+//go:build windows
+
+package testutil
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// CacheTFProviders is a no-op on Windows.
+// Terraform provider caching is only supported on Linux and macOS due to
+// platform-specific filesystem operations and Terraform's provider mirror behavior.
+// On Windows, tests will download providers normally during terraform init.
+func CacheTFProviders(t *testing.T, rootDir string, testName string, templateFiles map[string]string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	t.Log("Terraform provider caching is not supported on Windows; providers will be downloaded normally")
+	return ""
+}