diff --git a/nlp-service/requirements.txt b/nlp-service/requirements.txt
index fcf249a..a805969 100644
--- a/nlp-service/requirements.txt
+++ b/nlp-service/requirements.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ nltk==3.10.0
 rapidfuzz>=3.14.5
 # Recovers truncated JSON from Gemini 2.5 Flash repetition-loop bug
 # (see issue in repo) — salvages already-billed output on parse failure.
-json-repair>=0.61.2
+json-repair>=0.61.7
 # Commit 7: Chroma vector store (embedded, no separate server). 0.4.x API:
 # PersistentClient, get_or_create_collection, cosine distance.
 chromadb==0.4.24