diff --git a/dockerfiles/grading-clustering/metadata.json b/dockerfiles/grading-clustering/metadata.json
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+{
+    "pushLatest": true,
+    "latestTag": "v26.08.00"
+}
diff --git a/dockerfiles/grading-clustering/v26.08.00/Dockerfile b/dockerfiles/grading-clustering/v26.08.00/Dockerfile
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+FROM ubuntu:22.04
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+# Install Python and pip
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Install common data science and clustering libraries, more such can be added as per needs later on
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir \
+    numpy==2.2.6 \
+    pandas==2.3.3 \
+    scikit-learn==1.7.2 \
+    scipy==1.15.3 
+
+RUN ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python