From 2c290e3bee68129ce88905c82db7e233687c359f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:10:39 -1000
Subject: [PATCH] less templates

---
 esphome/components/api/proto.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/esphome/components/api/proto.h b/esphome/components/api/proto.h
index 973395ca65..96d5383ddf 100644
--- a/esphome/components/api/proto.h
+++ b/esphome/components/api/proto.h
@@ -184,6 +184,9 @@ class Proto64Bit {
   const uint64_t value_;
 };
 
+// Forward declaration needed for method declaration
+class ProtoMessage;
+
 class ProtoWriteBuffer {
  public:
   ProtoWriteBuffer(std::vector<uint8_t> *buffer) : buffer_(buffer) {}