diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9e4d4e2..ed07f05 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Imports:
     rlang,
     glue
 Suggests: 
-    testthat (>= 3.0.0)
+    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
+    withr
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Config/testthat/parallel: true
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-process_repos.R b/tests/testthat/test-process_repos.R
index fc8767a..d833f48 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-process_repos.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-process_repos.R
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 test_that("process_repos() returns results with repo metadata", {
-  verbose_off()
-
+  withr::local_envvar(new = c("GITAI_VERBOSE" = FALSE))
   my_project <- initialize_project("gitai_test_project") |>
     set_github_repos(
       repos = c("r-world-devs/GitStats", "openpharma/DataFakeR")
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-set_repos.R b/tests/testthat/test-set_repos.R
index d6f3e3c..377bb93 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-set_repos.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-set_repos.R
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 test_that("set_*_repos creates GitStats object inside GitAI with repos set", {
-  verbose_off()
+  withr::local_envvar(new = c("GITAI_VERBOSE" = FALSE))
   my_project <- initialize_project("gitai_test_project")
 
   my_project <- my_project |>