diff --git a/acceptance/bundle/templates/pydabs/init-classic/output/my_pydabs/pyproject.toml b/acceptance/bundle/templates/pydabs/init-classic/output/my_pydabs/pyproject.toml
index eea1c50a64..184b495a64 100644
--- a/acceptance/bundle/templates/pydabs/init-classic/output/my_pydabs/pyproject.toml
+++ b/acceptance/bundle/templates/pydabs/init-classic/output/my_pydabs/pyproject.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dev = [
     "databricks-dlt",
     "databricks-connect>=15.4,<15.5",
     "ipykernel",
-    "databricks-bundles==x.y.z",
+    "databricks-bundles==0.0.0",
 ]
 
 [project.scripts]
diff --git a/acceptance/bundle/templates/pydabs/test.toml b/acceptance/bundle/templates/pydabs/test.toml
index fc66c79de7..a7b1c1bcb7 100644
--- a/acceptance/bundle/templates/pydabs/test.toml
+++ b/acceptance/bundle/templates/pydabs/test.toml
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ TimeoutWindows = '120s'
 Local = true
 Cloud = false
 
+# Mask the real databricks-bundles version so the golden pyproject.toml does not
+# churn on every release. The placeholder must stay valid PEP 440: Dependabot's
+# dependency-graph submission scans this generated manifest and aborts the whole
+# pip/uv graph job on an unparseable version (the old "x.y.z" did exactly that).
 [[Repls]]
 Old = '"databricks-bundles==\d+\.\d+\.\d+"'
-New = '"databricks-bundles==x.y.z"'
+New = '"databricks-bundles==0.0.0"'