diff --git a/sandbox/pyproject.toml b/sandbox/pyproject.toml
index 2d0a5e7..d11de2a 100644
--- a/sandbox/pyproject.toml
+++ b/sandbox/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "mcp-server-plaid"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.1.1"
 description = "Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to build fast integration testing with Plaid Sandbox data."
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ authors = [
 ]
 dependencies = [
     "httpx",
-    "mcp",
+    "mcp>=1.6,<2",
     "websockets",
     "plaid-python"
 ]
diff --git a/sandbox/src/mcp_server_plaid/server.py b/sandbox/src/mcp_server_plaid/server.py
index 3ea21af..18f301a 100644
--- a/sandbox/src/mcp_server_plaid/server.py
+++ b/sandbox/src/mcp_server_plaid/server.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import asyncio
 import logging
 import sys
+from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
 from typing import Any, Dict, List
 
 import click
@@ -28,8 +29,18 @@
 )
 logger = logging.getLogger("plaid-mcp-server")
 
+# Read the version from distribution metadata rather than a literal: the publish
+# workflow stamps a generated version into pyproject.toml, which a literal here
+# would not track.
+try:
+    __version__ = version("mcp-server-plaid")
+except PackageNotFoundError:
+    logger.warning(
+        "No mcp-server-plaid distribution metadata found; reporting version as unknown"
+    )
+    __version__ = "0.0.0+unknown"
+
 # Constants
-__version__ = "0.1.0"
 REQUEST_TIMEOUT = 30.0