diff --git a/mcp-wrapper/package.json b/mcp-wrapper/package.json
index 38b1ebe..2a292b1 100644
--- a/mcp-wrapper/package.json
+++ b/mcp-wrapper/package.json
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@
     "test": "node --import tsx --test test/*.test.ts"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.0.0",
-    "zod": "^4.0.0"
+    "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "^22.0.0",
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d391046..d568aed 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "pyarrow>=16.0.0",
   "sentence-transformers>=3.0.0",
   "numpy>=2.4.6,<3.0.0",
-  "pydantic>=2.7.0",
-  "torch-hd>=5.7.0",    # imports as `torchhd`; PyPI name has a dash
-  "structlog>=24.0.0",
   "networkx>=3.3",
   "python-igraph>=0.11",
   "leidenalg>=0.10",