diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 219bd2d..fedc4dd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@ece7cb06caefa5fff74198d8649806c4678c61a1 # v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.13"
-      - run: pip install pyyaml openapi-spec-validator
+      - run: pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt
       - run: python3 scripts/validate_specs.py --strict
       # A field this branch stopped documenting, said out loud. Not a failure:
       # upstream is allowed to withdraw a field, and only a person can tell that
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@ece7cb06caefa5fff74198d8649806c4678c61a1 # v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.13"
-      - run: pip install pyyaml
+      - run: pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt
       # The detector before what it detects: a check nobody has seen fail is a
       # check nobody knows works.
       - run: python3 scripts/coverage.py --self-test
diff --git a/.github/workflows/spec-drift.yml b/.github/workflows/spec-drift.yml
index bcf6dae..70a1d83 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/spec-drift.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/spec-drift.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@ece7cb06caefa5fff74198d8649806c4678c61a1 # v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.13"
-      - run: pip install pyyaml openapi-spec-validator
+      - run: pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt
       - name: Refetch the specs under today's date
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
diff --git a/scripts/requirements.txt b/scripts/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b2ab003
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# What the spec tooling runs on, pinned to a resolution rather than a guess.
+#
+# Every `uses:` in .github/workflows is a full commit SHA, because a tag is a
+# mutable pointer whoever owns it can move. A floating `pip install` executing
+# on the same runner is that pointer under a different name — and one of the
+# jobs that does it can write to this repository.
+#
+# The two packages actually asked for are PyYAML and openapi-spec-validator.
+# The other nineteen are what they pull, which is why naming only the two would
+# have left most of the surface floating.
+#
+# One file for every job, including the one that needs PyYAML alone: a second
+# list is a second thing to keep in step, and the seconds it saves are not
+# worth that. To move it, add `pip freeze` to a run in a fresh venv and paste
+# what it prints — the numbers here came from run 32353300009.
+
+annotated-types==0.8.0
+attrs==26.1.0
+jsonschema==4.26.0
+jsonschema-path==0.5.0
+jsonschema-specifications==2025.9.1
+lazy-object-proxy==1.12.0
+openapi-schema-validator==0.9.0
+openapi-spec-validator==0.9.0
+pathable==0.6.0
+pydantic==2.13.4
+pydantic-settings==2.15.0
+pydantic_core==2.46.4
+python-dotenv==1.2.3
+PyYAML==6.0.3
+referencing==0.37.0
+rfc3339-validator==0.1.4
+rpds-py==2026.6.3
+six==1.17.0
+typing-inspection==0.4.4
+typing_extensions==4.16.0