diff --git a/.circleci/requirements.txt b/.circleci/requirements.txt
index 356a9840f5..5f09fa7f1f 100644
--- a/.circleci/requirements.txt
+++ b/.circleci/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ cohere
 redis
 anthropic
 orjson==3.9.15
-pydantic==2.7.1
+pydantic==2.10.2
 google-cloud-aiplatform==1.43.0
 fastapi-sso==0.10.0
 uvloop==0.21.0
+mcp==1.5.0    # for MCP server