diff --git a/dev-python/gpep517/Manifest b/dev-python/gpep517/Manifest
index 2b7869f135b97..f17c49cd4b7bc 100644
--- a/dev-python/gpep517/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/gpep517/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST gpep517-20.gh.tar.gz 29306 BLAKE2B 5799cfb351741758a3e195d0496ab1e94dbb53d938ac27e1f00a81aaeb338f058a2b33ddcc4c7b073953b77e20b3d8d729c04f00b7c43928c457590818be2ee8 SHA512 3a8782eb513bb189b6d4d10516a122fa496185960a2970445058030fccde10b841e222cce04ce3bde2c3f1e1186cb8e3f50f44e40be2fd35e7e1b91e937585b0
 DIST gpep517-22.gh.tar.gz 31344 BLAKE2B 1d7fb03dd3b71887dfd0a56a47e3e2220c75dd7f6c84887568731071eb543582ddcfa50c6e4305105ebe194252542752e8b7de673f8731bca2372759758306ff SHA512 421a681e7de79ea06fb89920dbe1e2ba58f5dcb8ecd1bb4043dea5415978621b817c212b001a64d3955a1f7b8156b6a845e2b4c64130ebefc155de20701dcbc9
+DIST gpep517-23.gh.tar.gz 31369 BLAKE2B 4c1cea22a935c21c731e8e0242f63b89200c1aa2647489f4319d0c1442897123edac1006e60c4c14636996f264000fc32213f87f0082ba906cb01fe878c94320 SHA512 f61deb134d4b39a56f6782884b87383fbe864ce0c6c7c2b53c0fe0a17019637f8d37b9c420194ba0cc6ac40dd09bd5b3518a4cabb61331a9da5c53fb2d18c660
diff --git a/dev-python/gpep517/gpep517-23.ebuild b/dev-python/gpep517/gpep517-23.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..bc06f089d60c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/gpep517/gpep517-23.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+# Copyright 2022-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+# please keep this ebuild at EAPI 8 -- sys-apps/portage dep
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=no
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..15} python3_{14..15}t )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="A backend script to aid installing Python packages in Gentoo"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://pypi.org/project/gpep517/
+	https://github.com/gentoo/gpep517/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/gentoo/gpep517/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/installer-0.5.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+# 26.1 for abi3t support
+PDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/packaging-26.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		${PDEPEND}
+	)
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_test() {
+	epytest -o tmp_path_retention_policy=all
+}
+
+python_install() {
+	python_domodule gpep517
+	python_newscript - gpep517 <<-EOF
+		#!${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/python
+		import sys
+		from gpep517.__main__ import main
+		sys.exit(main())
+	EOF
+}