diff --git a/.devcontainer/on_create_command.sh b/.devcontainer/on_create_command.sh
index 389f684..a49568b 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/on_create_command.sh
+++ b/.devcontainer/on_create_command.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # setup
 
-pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
-pip install -r dev-requires.txt
+pip install -U uv
+uv pip install -r dev-requires.txt
diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index 2f7b308..7824d8f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          python -m pip install -U pip
-          python -m pip install -U tox
+          python -m pip install -U tox-uv
 
       - run: tox -e ${{ matrix.linter }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 216cc56..d431293 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          python -m pip install -U pip
-          python -m pip install -U setuptools_scm build twine
+          pip install uv
+          uv pip install -U setuptools_scm build twine
 
       - name: Build package
         run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-examples-proj1.yml b/.github/workflows/test-examples-proj1.yml
index cead712..5bde745 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-examples-proj1.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-examples-proj1.yml
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       working-directory: examples/proj1
       run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
-        python -m pip install psycopg2-binary
+        pip install uv
+        uv pip install -r requirements.txt
+        uv pip install psycopg2-binary
 
     - name: tests
       working-directory: examples/proj1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index e60f9ee..3665ac1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        python -m pip install --upgrade tox tox-gh-actions
+        python -m pip install --upgrade tox-uv tox-gh-actions
 
     - name: Tox tests
       run: |
diff --git a/dev-requires.txt b/dev-requires.txt
index f11e7f5..adab8dd 100644
--- a/dev-requires.txt
+++ b/dev-requires.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 setuptools
 wheel
 setuptools_scm
-tox>=3.5
+tox-uv
 build
 twine
 -e ./