diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8507420..b114681 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -15,3 +15,7 @@ classifiers = [
 [tool.maturin]
 # "extension-module" tells pyo3 we want to build an extension module (skips linking against libpython.so)
 features = ["pyo3/extension-module"]
+
+dependencies = [
+    "polars"
+]
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