diff --git a/Earthfile b/Earthfile
index e59798d87a..3a6f05b412 100644
--- a/Earthfile
+++ b/Earthfile
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ dynamo-base-docker:
 
     FROM ubuntu:24.04
     WORKDIR /workspace
-    COPY container/deps/requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
+    COPY pyproject.toml /tmp/pyproject.toml
 
     # Install Python and other dependencies
     RUN apt-get update && \
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ dynamo-base-docker:
     ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/opt/dynamo/venv
     ENV PATH="${VIRTUAL_ENV}/bin:${PATH}"
 
-    RUN UV_GIT_LFS=1 uv pip install -r /tmp/requirements.txt
+    RUN UV_GIT_LFS=1 uv pip install -e /tmp/[test,standard]
 
     # Copy and install wheels -- ai-dynamo-runtime first, then ai-dynamo
     COPY +dynamo-build/ai_dynamo_runtime*.whl /tmp/wheels/
diff --git a/container/Dockerfile b/container/Dockerfile
index 4623b4d84a..2adc936ac8 100644
--- a/container/Dockerfile
+++ b/container/Dockerfile
@@ -371,13 +371,17 @@ RUN uv venv /opt/dynamo/venv --python $PYTHON_VERSION
 ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/opt/dynamo/venv \
     PATH="/opt/dynamo/venv/bin:${PATH}"
 
-# Install common and test dependencies
-RUN --mount=type=bind,source=./container/deps/requirements.txt,target=/tmp/requirements.txt \
-    --mount=type=bind,source=./container/deps/requirements.test.txt,target=/tmp/requirements.test.txt \
+# Install runtime wheel first, then dependencies
+COPY --chown=dynamo: --from=wheel_builder /opt/dynamo/dist/*.whl /opt/dynamo/wheelhouse/
+
+RUN uv pip install \
+    /opt/dynamo/wheelhouse/ai_dynamo_runtime*.whl
+
+# Now install dependencies from pyproject.toml (runtime is now available)
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=./pyproject.toml,target=/tmp/pyproject.toml \
     UV_GIT_LFS=1 uv pip install \
         --no-cache \
-        --requirement /tmp/requirements.txt \
-        --requirement /tmp/requirements.test.txt
+        -e /tmp/[test,standard]
 
 # NIXL environment variables
 ENV NIXL_PREFIX=/opt/nvidia/nvda_nixl \
@@ -390,9 +394,8 @@ COPY --chown=dynamo: --from=wheel_builder /usr/local/ucx/ /usr/local/ucx/
 COPY --chown=dynamo: --from=wheel_builder ${NIXL_PREFIX}/ ${NIXL_PREFIX}/
 COPY --chown=dynamo: --from=wheel_builder /opt/nvidia/nvda_nixl/lib64/. ${NIXL_LIB_DIR}/
 
-# Copy built artifacts
+# Copy nixl artifacts (wheels already copied earlier)
 COPY --chown=dynamo: --from=wheel_builder /opt/dynamo/dist/nixl/ /opt/dynamo/wheelhouse/nixl/
-COPY --chown=dynamo: --from=wheel_builder /opt/dynamo/dist/*.whl /opt/dynamo/wheelhouse/
 COPY --chown=dynamo: --from=wheel_builder $CARGO_TARGET_DIR $CARGO_TARGET_DIR
 COPY --chown=dynamo: --from=wheel_builder $CARGO_HOME $CARGO_HOME
 
diff --git a/container/Dockerfile.sglang-wideep b/container/Dockerfile.sglang-wideep
index b232a68e8e..94958a831c 100644
--- a/container/Dockerfile.sglang-wideep
+++ b/container/Dockerfile.sglang-wideep
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ RUN if [ "$BRANCH_TYPE" = "local" ]; then \
     pip install --break-system-packages target/wheels/*.whl && \
     cd /sgl-workspace/dynamo && \
     pip install --break-system-packages -e . && \
-    pip install --break-system-packages --requirement /tmp/local_src/container/deps/requirements.txt ; \
+    pip install --break-system-packages -e /tmp/local_src[test,standard] ; \
   elif [ "$BRANCH_TYPE" = "remote" ]; then \
     cd dynamo/lib/bindings/python && \
     pip install --break-system-packages maturin && \
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ RUN if [ "$BRANCH_TYPE" = "local" ]; then \
     pip install --break-system-packages target/wheels/*.whl && \
     cd /sgl-workspace/dynamo && \
     pip install --break-system-packages -e . && \
-    pip install --break-system-packages --requirement /sgl-workspace/dynamo/container/deps/requirements.txt ; \
+    pip install --break-system-packages -e /sgl-workspace/dynamo[test,standard] ; \
   else \
     pip install --break-system-packages ai-dynamo ; \
   fi \
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a3e552d6aa..474a50096a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,21 +10,54 @@ authors = [
     { name = "NVIDIA Inc.", email = "sw-dl-dynamo@nvidia.com" },
 ]
 license = { text = "Apache-2.0" }
-license-files = ["LICENSE"]
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
     "ai-dynamo-runtime==0.7.0",
-    "pytest>=8.3.4",
-    "types-psutil>=7.0.0.20250218",
-    "kubernetes>=32.0.1,<33.0.0",
-    "fastapi>=0.115.0",
+    "accelerate==1.6.0",
+    "aiconfigurator @ git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator.git@5554d2eb8206738c66048bf2d72183e9bcd85759",
+    "aiofiles",
+    "aiperf @ git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@16dad7c02fcd959ba96823d7bfe7e681e5d5b41d",
+    "av==15.0.0",
+    "click<8.2.0",
     "distro",
-    # filelock: required by planner
+    "fastapi==0.120.1",
     "filelock",
-    "typer",
-    "click<8.2.0",
-    "setuptools",
+    "ftfy",
+    "genai-perf==0.0.15",
+    "grpcio-tools==1.66.0",
+    "httpx",
+    "kr8s",
+    "kubernetes==32.0.1",
+    "kubernetes_asyncio",
+    "matplotlib",
+    "msgspec",
+    "mypy",
+    "nvidia-ml-py==13.580.65",
+    "opentelemetry-api",
+    "opentelemetry-sdk",
+    "pip",
+    "pmdarima",
+    "pre-commit",
+    "prometheus-api-client",
     "prometheus_client>=0.23.1,<1.0",
+    "prophet",
+    "protobuf==5.29.5",
+    "pydantic>=2.10.6",
+    "pyright",
+    "pytest>=8.3.4",
+    "PyYAML",
+    "scikit-learn",
+    "scipy<1.14.0",
+    "sentencepiece",
+    "setuptools",
+    "tensorboard==2.19.0",
+    "tensorboardX==2.6.2.2",
+    "transformers",
+    "typer",
+    "types-aiofiles",
+    "types-psutil>=7.0.0.20250218",
+    "types-PyYAML",
+    "uvicorn",
 ]
 
 classifiers = [
@@ -65,6 +98,51 @@ sglang = [
 ]
 
 [dependency-groups]
+test = [
+    # For IFEval dataset loading in kvbm tests
+    "datasets",
+    # For NATS object store verification in router tests
+    "nats-py",
+    "psutil>=5.0.0",
+    "pyright",
+    "pytest",
+    "pytest-asyncio",
+    "pytest-benchmark",
+    "pytest-codeblocks",
+    "pytest-cov",
+    "pytest-forked",
+    "pytest-md-report",
+    "pytest-mypy",
+    "pytest-timeout",
+    # Triton client to Dynamo gRPC server
+    "tritonclient[grpc]",
+    # add types library stub for PyYAML
+    "types-PyYAML",
+    "types-requests",
+]
+
+standard = [
+    "ucx-py-cu12",
+]
+
+deploy = [
+    # Kubernetes and async dependencies
+    "aiofiles>=0.8.0",
+    # Benchmarking dependencies for Dynamo
+    "genai-perf==0.0.15",
+    "httpx>=0.24.0",
+    "kubernetes-asyncio>=24.0.0",
+    # Plotting and visualization
+    "matplotlib>=3.5.0",
+    "numpy>=1.21.0",
+    "pandas>=1.3.0",
+    "plotly>=5.0.0",
+    # YAML processing
+    "pyyaml>=6.0.0",
+    "scipy>=1.7.0",
+    "seaborn>=0.11.0",
+]
+
 docs = [
     # Core Sphinx
     "sphinx>=8.1",