diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 0539d5b..1d29bb6 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ RUN curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
 ENV PATH="/root/.local/bin:$PATH"
 RUN uv venv --python 3.12 /app/venv && uv pip install --python /app/venv/bin/python sentence-transformers
 RUN /app/venv/bin/python -c "from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; SentenceTransformer('all-MiniLM-L6-v2')"
+# Pre-warm uv cache with common packages (shared across all project venvs)
+RUN uv pip install --python /app/venv/bin/python httpx fastapi uvicorn requests flask pydantic numpy pandas matplotlib pillow jinja2 pyyaml python-dotenv beautifulsoup4 lxml aiohttp aiofiles pytest rich click typer sqlalchemy
 RUN mkdir -p /app/data/workspaces
 WORKDIR /app
 COPY target/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/release/tori .
diff --git a/src/agent.rs b/src/agent.rs
index c9d52ce..d7ccdac 100644
--- a/src/agent.rs
+++ b/src/agent.rs
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ async fn ensure_workspace(exec: &LocalExecutor, workdir: &str) {
         let venv_path = format!("{}/.venv", workdir);
         if !Path::new(&venv_path).exists() {
             let _ = exec.execute("uv venv .venv", workdir).await;
+            let _ = exec.execute("uv pip install httpx fastapi uvicorn requests flask pydantic numpy pandas matplotlib pillow jinja2 pyyaml python-dotenv beautifulsoup4 lxml aiohttp aiofiles pytest rich click typer sqlalchemy", workdir).await;
         }
     }
 }