diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pipcl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pipcl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..227a4eb5f5da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pipcl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  setuptools,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "pipcl";
+  version = "4";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ArtifexSoftware";
+    repo = "pipcl";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-1dTjxMuOFWeK4L+m4dbllNVwV36MmhsICTplfEKIOxk=";
+  };
+
+  build-system = [
+    setuptools
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [
+    "pipcl"
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Python packaging operations for use by a `setup.py";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/pipcl";
+    license = lib.licenses.agpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ sarahec ];
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index fe78be8ca2ac..9b0abf51d79e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -12590,6 +12590,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   pip-tools = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pip-tools { };
 
+  pipcl = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pipcl { };
+
   pipdate = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pipdate { };
 
   pipdeptree = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pipdeptree { };