diff --git a/auto-codex/requirements.txt b/auto-codex/requirements.txt
index a75ee83..a9b98d6 100644
--- a/auto-codex/requirements.txt
+++ b/auto-codex/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Auto-Build Framework Dependencies
-python-dotenv>=1.0.0
+python-dotenv>=1.2.2
 
 # TOML parsing fallback for Python < 3.11
 tomli>=2.0.0; python_version < "3.11"