diff --git a/src/PowerShellEditorServices/Services/PowerShellContext/PowerShellContextService.cs b/src/PowerShellEditorServices/Services/PowerShellContext/PowerShellContextService.cs
index 3f1a03c32..3043174eb 100644
--- a/src/PowerShellEditorServices/Services/PowerShellContext/PowerShellContextService.cs
+++ b/src/PowerShellEditorServices/Services/PowerShellContext/PowerShellContextService.cs
@@ -1838,9 +1838,17 @@ public MinifiedRunspaceDetails(RunspaceDetails eventArgs)
         /// <param name="e">details of the execution status change</param>
         private void PowerShellContext_ExecutionStatusChangedAsync(object sender, ExecutionStatusChangedEventArgs e)
         {
-            _languageServer?.SendNotification(
-                "powerShell/executionStatusChanged",
-                e);
+            // The cancelling of the prompt (PSReadLine) causes an ExecutionStatus.Aborted to be sent after every
+            // actual execution (ExecutionStatus.Running) on the pipeline. We ignore that event since it's counterintuitive to
+            // the goal of this method which is to send updates when the pipeline is actually running something.
+            // In the event that we don't know if it was a ReadLine cancel, we default to sending the notification.
+            var options = e?.ExecutionOptions;
+            if (options == null || !options.IsReadLine)
+            {
+                _languageServer?.SendNotification(
+                    "powerShell/executionStatusChanged",
+                    e);
+            }
         }
 
         #endregion