diff --git a/engine/src/flutter/ci/licenses_golden/excluded_files b/engine/src/flutter/ci/licenses_golden/excluded_files
index c5c1c44f7f6..e48d183af38 100644
--- a/engine/src/flutter/ci/licenses_golden/excluded_files
+++ b/engine/src/flutter/ci/licenses_golden/excluded_files
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@
 ../../../flutter/sky/packages/sky_engine/README.md
 ../../../flutter/sky/packages/sky_engine/lib/_embedder.yaml
 ../../../flutter/sky/packages/sky_engine/pubspec.yaml
+../../../flutter/sky/tools/cp.py
 ../../../flutter/sky/tools/create_embedder_framework.py
 ../../../flutter/sky/tools/create_ios_framework.py
 ../../../flutter/sky/tools/create_macos_binary.py
diff --git a/engine/src/flutter/lib/snapshot/BUILD.gn b/engine/src/flutter/lib/snapshot/BUILD.gn
index 6c6ce7fce57..47646c7888f 100644
--- a/engine/src/flutter/lib/snapshot/BUILD.gn
+++ b/engine/src/flutter/lib/snapshot/BUILD.gn
@@ -201,12 +201,18 @@ if (host_os == "mac" && (target_os == "mac" || target_os == "ios")) {
     gen_snapshot_target =
         "$dart_src/runtime/bin:$gen_snapshot_target_name($build_toolchain)"
 
-    copy(target_name) {
+    action(target_name) {
+      script = "//flutter/sky/tools/cp.py"
+
       # The toolchain-specific output directory. For cross-compiles, this is a
       # clang-x64 or clang-arm64 subdirectory of the top-level build directory.
       output_dir = get_label_info(gen_snapshot_target, "root_out_dir")
 
-      sources = [ "${output_dir}/${gen_snapshot_target_name}" ]
+      args = [
+        rebase_path("${output_dir}/${gen_snapshot_target_name}"),
+        rebase_path(
+            "${root_out_dir}/artifacts_$host_cpu/gen_snapshot_${target_cpu}"),
+      ]
       outputs =
           [ "${root_out_dir}/artifacts_$host_cpu/gen_snapshot_${target_cpu}" ]
       deps = [ gen_snapshot_target ]
diff --git a/engine/src/flutter/sky/tools/cp.py b/engine/src/flutter/sky/tools/cp.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..13197359689
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine/src/flutter/sky/tools/cp.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+"""Copy a file.
+
+This module works much like the cp posix command - it takes 2 arguments:
+(src, dst) and copies the file with path |src| to |dst|.
+"""
+
+import os
+import shutil
+import sys
+
+
+def main(src, dst):
+  # Use copy instead of copyfile to ensure the executable bit is copied.
+  dstpath = os.path.normpath(dst)
+  try:
+    shutil.copy(src, dstpath)
+  except shutil.SameFileError:
+    if not (os.path.islink(dstpath) or os.stat(dstpath).st_nlink > 1):
+      raise
+    # Copy will fail if the destination is the link to the source.
+    # If that's the case, then delete the destination link first,
+    # then repeat the copy.
+    os.remove(dstpath)
+    shutil.copy(src, dstpath)
+  return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]))