diff --git a/studio/backend/requirements/no-torch-runtime.txt b/studio/backend/requirements/no-torch-runtime.txt
index 85294114b1..6efe91d448 100644
--- a/studio/backend/requirements/no-torch-runtime.txt
+++ b/studio/backend/requirements/no-torch-runtime.txt
@@ -68,3 +68,9 @@ trl>=0.18.2,!=0.19.0,<=0.24.0
 sentence-transformers
 cut_cross_entropy
 pillow
+
+# RAG store + document parsing, mirroring studio.txt. Pinned here because
+# this file installs --no-deps; without them Studio runs with RAG disabled.
+sqlite-vec==0.1.9
+pymupdf==1.27.2.3
+python-docx==1.2.0