diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ve/vectorcode/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ve/vectorcode/package.nix
index 2567d4d5e86b..c02fcfe37131 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ve/vectorcode/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ve/vectorcode/package.nix
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ python.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
       pathspec
       psutil
       pygments
+      python-dotenv
       sentence-transformers
       shtab
       tabulate