diff --git a/meta/requirements-test.txt b/meta/requirements-test.txt
index d7b22fcd..c34fed35 100644
--- a/meta/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/meta/requirements-test.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 # suite itself fails loudly here on a missing import.
 # ==============================================================================
 
-anthropic==1.7.0
+anthropic==1.8.0
 beautifulsoup4==4.15.0
 coverage==7.16.1
 defusedxml==0.7.1
diff --git a/meta/requirements.txt b/meta/requirements.txt
index 6d066b0a..52c80e76 100644
--- a/meta/requirements.txt
+++ b/meta/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 add-trailing-comma==4.0.0
 aiohttp==3.14.3
-anthropic==1.7.0
+anthropic==1.8.0
 autoflake==2.4.0
 autopep8==2.3.2
 bandit==1.9.4
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ dead==2.1.0
 defusedxml==0.7.1
 docformatter==1.7.8
 fixit==2.2.1
-flake8==7.3.0
+flake8==7.4.1
 flake8-annotations==3.2.0
 flake8-bandit==4.1.1
 flake8-bugbear==26.9.9
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ gatelock @ git+https://github.com/kuhyx/utils@gatelock-v0.8.2#subdirectory=gatel
 genanki==0.13.1
 geopandas==1.1.4
 howlongtobeatpy==1.0.23
-hypothesis==6.168.0
+hypothesis==6.168.1
 importlib-metadata==9.0.1
 interrogate==1.7.0
 # isort is deliberately not pinned: nothing here imports it (ruff's isort
@@ -58,11 +58,11 @@ pip-audit==2.10.1
 pipdeptree==4.2.5
 pre-commit==4.6.2
 prospector==1.19.1
-pycodestyle==2.14.0
+pycodestyle==2.15.0
 pydocstyle==6.3.0
-pyflakes==3.4.0
+pyflakes==4.0.0
 pygame==2.6.1
-pylint==4.0.8
+pylint==4.0.9
 pyright==1.1.414
 pytest==9.1.1
 pytest-cov==7.1.0
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ radon==6.0.1
 reorder-python-imports==3.17.0
 requests==2.34.2
 rich==15.0.0
-ruff==0.16.8
+ruff==0.16.9
 # safety is deliberately not pinned: its only reference in this repo is a
 # commented-out pre-commit hook, and safety 3.8.1 declares `typer<0.26`,
 # which would hold the typer this repo actually imports below latest.