diff --git a/cookie-mlflow-step/{{cookiecutter.step_name}}/conda.yml b/cookie-mlflow-step/{{cookiecutter.step_name}}/conda.yml
index 34630a915..e9cefe7ca 100644
--- a/cookie-mlflow-step/{{cookiecutter.step_name}}/conda.yml
+++ b/cookie-mlflow-step/{{cookiecutter.step_name}}/conda.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ channels:
   - defaults
 dependencies:
   - pip=23.3.1
+  - python=3.10
   - pip:
       - mlflow==2.8.1
       - wandb==0.16.0