diff --git a/invokeai/app/invocations/baseinvocation.py b/invokeai/app/invocations/baseinvocation.py
index f5ad61e4f8..9084a7bf48 100644
--- a/invokeai/app/invocations/baseinvocation.py
+++ b/invokeai/app/invocations/baseinvocation.py
@@ -473,7 +473,6 @@ class BaseInvocation(ABC, BaseModel):
     @classmethod
     def get_all_subclasses(cls):
         app_config = InvokeAIAppConfig.get_config()
-        app_config.parse_args()
         subclasses = []
         toprocess = [cls]
         while len(toprocess) > 0: