diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 6c86271b..fa140c6e 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1308,6 +1308,17 @@ pytest = ">=5.0"
 [package.extras]
 dev = ["pre-commit", "pytest-asyncio", "tox"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "python-decouple"
+version = "3.8"
+description = "Strict separation of settings from code."
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+files = [
+    {file = "python-decouple-3.8.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ba6e2657d4f376ecc46f77a3a615e058d93ba5e465c01bbe57289bfb7cce680f"},
+    {file = "python_decouple-3.8-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:d0d45340815b25f4de59c974b855bb38d03151d81b037d9e3f463b0c9f8cbd66"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pytz"
 version = "2024.1"
@@ -1683,4 +1694,4 @@ grpc = ["grpcio", "protobuf"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.8"
-content-hash = "0810efe87ec38da87523d34f47a41511c0e399703e47a73acfc81a65deb69e77"
+content-hash = "5e3b658cb8ae5b6c2b4ae409b792cdd4b886a8e9baf6bb811eaa4a252e043e92"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2d09788d..42662bc1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ grpcio = {version=">=1.49.0,<2.0", optional = true}
 protobuf = { version = "^4.21", optional = true }
 hightime = "^0.2.1"
 tzlocal = "^5.0"
+python-decouple = ">=3.8"
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]
 docs = ["sphinx", "sphinx_rtd_theme"]