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+# Requirements for the Personal AI Fluency Plan project
+# The only external dependency is langchain-openai which provides the ChatOpenAI wrapper.
+# It must be >=0.3.0 to support the current LangChain API.
+langchain-openai>=0.3.0
+python-dotenv>=1.0.0