diff --git a/ansible_collections/arista/avd/requirements-dev.txt b/ansible_collections/arista/avd/requirements-dev.txt
index f4345fb1b70..21a2f1364fc 100644
--- a/ansible_collections/arista/avd/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/ansible_collections/arista/avd/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -21,4 +21,5 @@ black==23.12.1
 ansible-doc-extractor>=0.1.10
 tox
 pydantic>=2.3.0
+aristaproto>=0.1.1
 aristaproto[compiler]>=0.1.1