diff --git a/tmp-celery-flush/pyproject.toml b/tmp-celery-flush/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce23ae6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tmp-celery-flush/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[project]
+name = "tmp-celery-flush"
+version = "0"
+requires-python = ">=3.12"
+
+dependencies = [
+    "celery>=5.4.0",
+    "ipdb>=0.13.13",
+    "redis>=5.2.1",
+    "sentry-sdk[celery]",
+]
+
+[tool.uv.sources]
+sentry-sdk = { path = "../../sentry-python", editable = true }
diff --git a/tmp-celery-flush/requirements.txt b/tmp-celery-flush/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index a69bcfa..0000000
--- a/tmp-celery-flush/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-celery
-redis
-
-ipdb
-
--e ../../../code/sentry-python  # sdk in a sibling folder to this projects folder
diff --git a/tmp-celery-flush/run-celery.sh b/tmp-celery-flush/run-celery.sh
index 78da366..dcd4ff5 100755
--- a/tmp-celery-flush/run-celery.sh
+++ b/tmp-celery-flush/run-celery.sh
@@ -1,19 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# exit on first error
 set -euo pipefail
 
-reset
-
-# create and activate virtual environment
-python -m venv .venv
-source .venv/bin/activate
-
-# Install (or update) requirements
-pip install -r requirements.txt
+if ! command -v uv &> /dev/null; then
+    curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
+fi
 
 redis-server --daemonize yes
 
-celery -A tasks.app worker \
+uv run celery -A tasks.app worker \
     --loglevel=INFO \
     -c 1
diff --git a/tmp-celery-flush/start-task.sh b/tmp-celery-flush/start-task.sh
index ae8da03..85b221f 100755
--- a/tmp-celery-flush/start-task.sh
+++ b/tmp-celery-flush/start-task.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# exit on first error
 set -euo pipefail
 
-# create and activate virtual environment
-python -m venv .venv
-source .venv/bin/activate
+if ! command -v uv &> /dev/null; then
+    curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
+fi
 
-# Start task
-python -c 'import tasks; tasks.my_task.delay()'
\ No newline at end of file
+uv run python -c 'import tasks; tasks.my_task.delay()'