diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 12c470d2..ec944112 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ prompt_toolkit>=2
 requests
 pydantic>=2.7
 pydantic[email]
+setuptools # required for python 3.12+
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