diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1cf1d12..37fcbea 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ test = [
     "pytest>=7.4.0",
     "pytest-asyncio>=0.23.0",
     "pytest-timeout>=2.2.0",
-    "pytest-cov>=4.1.0",
+    "pytest-cov>=7.1.0",
     "httpx>=0.28.1",
     "mcp>=1.27.0",
     "a2a-sdk>=0.3.0,<1.0.0",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 82febb8..1aa30a8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ pydantic>=2.13.4
 pytest>=7.4.0
 pytest-asyncio>=0.23.0
 pytest-timeout>=2.2.0   # per-test timeout so no run can hang the suite (see tests/conftest, pyproject)
-pytest-cov>=4.1.0       # coverage report in CI logs
+pytest-cov>=7.1.0       # coverage report in CI logs
 httpx>=0.28.1
 # Official protocol SDKs used by the conformance + live tests to validate translation
 # against each protocol's REAL schema (dev/test only; not imported at runtime).