diff --git a/dev_tools/notebooks/isolated_notebook_test.py b/dev_tools/notebooks/isolated_notebook_test.py
index 239acfd87fa..5d68e1306e6 100644
--- a/dev_tools/notebooks/isolated_notebook_test.py
+++ b/dev_tools/notebooks/isolated_notebook_test.py
@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@
     "jupyter",
     # assumed to be part of colab
     "seaborn~=0.12",
+    # TODO: remove after the fix of https://github.com/rigetti/qcs-sdk-rust/issues/531
+    "qcs-sdk-python<=0.21.12",
+    "numpy~=1.25",
 ]