diff --git a/hedera-guardian-ai-toolkit/packages/policy_schema_builder/poetry.lock b/hedera-guardian-ai-toolkit/packages/policy_schema_builder/poetry.lock
index 99b8299f9c..7ed3428fa6 100644
--- a/hedera-guardian-ai-toolkit/packages/policy_schema_builder/poetry.lock
+++ b/hedera-guardian-ai-toolkit/packages/policy_schema_builder/poetry.lock
@@ -401,20 +401,20 @@ windows-terminal = ["colorama (>=0.4.6)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest"
-version = "8.4.2"
+version = "9.0.3"
 description = "pytest: simple powerful testing with Python"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.9"
+python-versions = ">=3.10"
 groups = ["dev"]
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest-8.4.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:872f880de3fc3a5bdc88a11b39c9710c3497a547cfa9320bc3c5e62fbf272e79"},
-    {file = "pytest-8.4.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:86c0d0b93306b961d58d62a4db4879f27fe25513d4b969df351abdddb3c30e01"},
+    {file = "pytest-9.0.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2c5efc453d45394fdd706ade797c0a81091eccd1d6e4bccfcd476e2b8e0ab5d9"},
+    {file = "pytest-9.0.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b86ada508af81d19edeb213c681b1d48246c1a91d304c6c81a427674c17eb91c"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
 colorama = {version = ">=0.4", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
-iniconfig = ">=1"
-packaging = ">=20"
+iniconfig = ">=1.0.1"
+packaging = ">=22"
 pluggy = ">=1.5,<2"
 pygments = ">=2.7.2"
 
@@ -423,18 +423,18 @@ dev = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "requests
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest-asyncio"
-version = "0.23.8"
+version = "0.23.3"
 description = "Pytest support for asyncio"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 groups = ["dev"]
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest_asyncio-0.23.8-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:50265d892689a5faefb84df80819d1ecef566eb3549cf915dfb33569359d1ce2"},
-    {file = "pytest_asyncio-0.23.8.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:759b10b33a6dc61cce40a8bd5205e302978bbbcc00e279a8b61d9a6a3c82e4d3"},
+    {file = "pytest-asyncio-0.23.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:af313ce900a62fbe2b1aed18e37ad757f1ef9940c6b6a88e2954de38d6b1fb9f"},
+    {file = "pytest_asyncio-0.23.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:37a9d912e8338ee7b4a3e917381d1c95bfc8682048cb0fbc35baba316ec1faba"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-pytest = ">=7.0.0,<9"
+pytest = ">=7.0.0"
 
 [package.extras]
 docs = ["sphinx (>=5.3)", "sphinx-rtd-theme (>=1.0)"]
@@ -517,4 +517,4 @@ typing-extensions = ">=4.12.0"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
 python-versions = "^3.11"
-content-hash = "0e78cc7d35ef48c83196865675b99f9e8c3172c2c9675519586b0b07baf36594"
+content-hash = "6e8fa430219b644c68e3fb3464c0b228040e0645c68b5b118f47218e77668b2b"
diff --git a/hedera-guardian-ai-toolkit/packages/policy_schema_builder/pyproject.toml b/hedera-guardian-ai-toolkit/packages/policy_schema_builder/pyproject.toml
index d422d5c5eb..2ba67f6abe 100644
--- a/hedera-guardian-ai-toolkit/packages/policy_schema_builder/pyproject.toml
+++ b/hedera-guardian-ai-toolkit/packages/policy_schema_builder/pyproject.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ openpyxl = "^3.1.5"
 pathvalidate = "^3.3.1"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
-pytest = "^8.0.0"
+pytest = ">=8,<10"
 pytest-asyncio = "^0.23.0"
 pytest-cov = "^4.1.0"
 ruff = ">=0.15.0"