diff --git a/manifest.dhall b/manifest.dhall
index f22c79aa657dde8fa3025524fec95d2bc84efb0b..31945fa31ba9cf7ce12c23b419f089d06ea17522 100644
--- a/manifest.dhall
+++ b/manifest.dhall
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ in  [ callHackage "Cabal" "3.8.1.0"
     , callHackage "text-metrics" "0.3.2"
     , callHackage "text-zipper" "0.12"
     , callHackage "these" "1.1.1.1"
+    , callHackage "these-skinny" "0.7.5"
     , callHackage "th-extras" "0.0.0.6"
     , callHackage "th-lift-instances" "0.1.20"
     , callHackage "tidal" "1.8.1"
diff --git a/overlay.nix b/overlay.nix
index b444466c00b947f1363e7adb65fd2d8b89d77354..bd0faad31c24958000f419ec1b15ea462b5d947a 100644
--- a/overlay.nix
+++ b/overlay.nix
@@ -417,6 +417,8 @@ final: prev: with pkgs.haskell.lib; {
 
     these = prev.callPackage (./pkgs/these.nix) { };
 
+    these-skinny = prev.callPackage (./pkgs/these-skinny.nix) { };
+
     tidal = prev.callPackage (./pkgs/tidal.nix) { };
 
     time-compat = prev.callPackage (./pkgs/time-compat.nix) { };
diff --git a/pkgs/these-skinny.nix b/pkgs/these-skinny.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..387a8e21e7400238c02cbf91f0b03f42f368848c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/these-skinny.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{ mkDerivation, base, deepseq, ghc-prim, lib }:
+mkDerivation {
+  pname = "these-skinny";
+  version = "0.7.5";
+  sha256 = "726933193bb33d9731a2ed794c07c3ff8952fb0baef5ebbd7dc3b2a3e5746cd9";
+  revision = "1";
+  editedCabalFile = "1paqqcdbqr91gvvs0anq30pkdd37g70ql4v11lszl6dzjl6yy3d5";
+  libraryHaskellDepends = [ base deepseq ghc-prim ];
+  doHaddock = false;
+  jailbreak = true;
+  doCheck = false;
+  hyperlinkSource = false;
+  homepage = "https://github.com/chessai/these-skinny";
+  description = "A fork of the 'these' package without the dependency bloat";
+  license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+}
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