diff --git a/packages/cli/src/index.js b/packages/cli/src/index.js
index cd2dc2502650..e91c0b3d8d03 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/cli/src/index.js
@@ -227,6 +227,10 @@ async function runYargs() {
   // Load any CLI plugins
   await loadPlugins(yarg)
 
+  // We explicitly set the version here so that it's always available
+  const pkgJson = require('../package.json')
+  yarg.version(pkgJson['version'])
+
   // Run
   await yarg.parse(process.argv.slice(2), {}, (err, _argv, output) => {
     // Configuring yargs with `strict` makes it error on unknown args;