diff --git a/scripts/setup/constraints.txt b/scripts/setup/constraints.txt
index 90b80f7588af5b..5d0ca805416433 100644
--- a/scripts/setup/constraints.txt
+++ b/scripts/setup/constraints.txt
@@ -290,3 +290,10 @@ setuptools==68.0.0
     # via
     #   pip-tools
     #   west
+
+# Manual edits:
+
+# Higher versions depend on proto-plus, which break
+# nanopb code generation (due to name conflict of the 'proto' module)
+google-api-core==2.17.0
+