diff --git a/.cursus/sharply-boisterous-foal.md b/.cursus/sharply-boisterous-foal.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3e365bba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.cursus/sharply-boisterous-foal.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
++++
+cursus = "patch"
+cursus-bin = "patch"
++++
+
+update rust crate octocrab to v0.54.1
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6a4ece0c..34b2faec 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1641,6 +1641,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "http-serde"
+version = "2.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0f056c8559e3757392c8d091e796416e4649d8e49e88b8d76df6c002f05027fd"
+dependencies = [
+ "http",
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "httparse"
 version = "1.10.1"
@@ -2403,9 +2413,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "octocrab"
-version = "0.51.0"
+version = "0.54.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "eb2ad8abffe4e2b05f9cdc7e061de63d305a6dca0af81ca1064a7d98e0b78267"
+checksum = "432fad6f447c52acda76a7a0660f022b21f4c42f373bbdc29f04332ba19a89bf"
 dependencies = [
  "arc-swap",
  "async-trait",
@@ -2420,14 +2430,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "http",
  "http-body",
  "http-body-util",
+ "http-serde",
  "hyper",
  "hyper-rustls",
  "hyper-timeout",
  "hyper-util",
  "jsonwebtoken",
- "once_cell",
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project",
+ "rustls",
  "secrecy",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
diff --git a/packages/cursus-bin/Cargo.toml b/packages/cursus-bin/Cargo.toml
index 92f0c371..00c21609 100644
--- a/packages/cursus-bin/Cargo.toml
+++ b/packages/cursus-bin/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ clap = { version = "=4.6.1", features = ["derive"] }
 gitlab = "=0.1900.0"
 log = "=0.4.32"
 mutants = "=0.0.4"
-octocrab = { version = "=0.51.0", default-features = false, features = ["follow-redirect", "retry", "rustls", "timeout", "tracing", "default-client", "rustls-aws-lc-rs", "jwt-rust-crypto"] }
+octocrab = { version = "=0.54.1", default-features = false, features = ["follow-redirect", "retry", "rustls", "timeout", "tracing", "default-client", "rustls-aws-lc-rs", "jwt-rust-crypto"] }
 # Brought in as a direct dep so we can install the rustls process-default
 # CryptoProvider explicitly at startup (defensive: keeps a single deterministic
 # provider even if future dep changes accidentally link a second one).
diff --git a/packages/cursus/Cargo.toml b/packages/cursus/Cargo.toml
index 045d9985..1c4b673e 100644
--- a/packages/cursus/Cargo.toml
+++ b/packages/cursus/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ mutants = "0.0.4"
 # by the `gitlab` crate (via reqwest). Without this, both `ring` (octocrab default) and
 # `aws-lc-rs` (gitlab) are linked, and rustls 0.23 refuses to auto-select between them
 # at runtime ("Could not automatically determine the process-level CryptoProvider").
-octocrab = { version = "0.51.0", default-features = false, features = ["follow-redirect", "retry", "rustls", "timeout", "tracing", "default-client", "rustls-aws-lc-rs", "jwt-rust-crypto"] }
+octocrab = { version = "0.54.0", default-features = false, features = ["follow-redirect", "retry", "rustls", "timeout", "tracing", "default-client", "rustls-aws-lc-rs", "jwt-rust-crypto"] }
 percent-encoding = "2.3.2"
 petname = { version = "3.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["default-rng", "default-words"] }
 ratatui = { version = "0.30.0", features = ["unstable-rendered-line-info"] }