diff --git a/requirements/_requirements.txt b/requirements/_requirements.txt
index b627c2ff1..dfe894b91 100644
--- a/requirements/_requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/_requirements.txt
@@ -31,3 +31,5 @@ tldextract~=5.1.2
 packaging~=24.0
 anthropic~=0.34.2
 pandas>=2.0.0,<2.3.0
+pytest>=8.0.0,<9.0.0  # this is not a joke, sam2 requires this as the fork we are using is dependent on that, yet
+# do not mark the dependency: https://github.com/SauravMaheshkar/samv2/blob/main/sam2/utils/download.py 
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