diff --git a/cli/pyproject.toml b/cli/pyproject.toml
index e378cf8..e332cd1 100644
--- a/cli/pyproject.toml
+++ b/cli/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=68", "wheel"]
-build-backend = "setuptools.backends.legacy:build"
+requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "securelens-ai"
@@ -12,13 +12,12 @@ license = { text = "MIT" }
 keywords = ["security", "cli", "sast", "ai", "scanner", "owasp"]
 dependencies = [
     "click>=8.1",
-    "rich>=13.7",
-    "litellm>=1.40",
+    "rich>=13.0",
+    "litellm>=1.0",
     "httpx>=0.27",
     "pyyaml>=6.0",
     "questionary>=2.0",
     "pathspec>=0.12",
-    "asyncio-throttle>=1.0",
 ]
 
 [project.scripts]