diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 577a202..a57bb22 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -357,10 +357,8 @@ checksum = "c469d952047f47f91b68d1cba3f10d63c11d73e4636f24f08daf0278abf01c4d"
 dependencies = [
  "android-tzdata",
  "iana-time-zone",
- "js-sys",
  "num-traits",
  "serde",
- "wasm-bindgen",
  "windows-link",
 ]
 
@@ -1761,18 +1759,8 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "34af8d1a0e25924bc5b7c43c079c942339d8f0a8b57c39049bef581b46327404"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
- "rand_chacha 0.3.1",
- "rand_core 0.6.4",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "rand"
-version = "0.9.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6db2770f06117d490610c7488547d543617b21bfa07796d7a12f6f1bd53850d1"
-dependencies = [
- "rand_chacha 0.9.0",
- "rand_core 0.9.3",
+ "rand_chacha",
+ "rand_core",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1782,17 +1770,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e6c10a63a0fa32252be49d21e7709d4d4baf8d231c2dbce1eaa8141b9b127d88"
 dependencies = [
  "ppv-lite86",
- "rand_core 0.6.4",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "rand_chacha"
-version = "0.9.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d3022b5f1df60f26e1ffddd6c66e8aa15de382ae63b3a0c1bfc0e4d3e3f325cb"
-dependencies = [
- "ppv-lite86",
- "rand_core 0.9.3",
+ "rand_core",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1804,15 +1782,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "getrandom 0.2.16",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "rand_core"
-version = "0.9.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "99d9a13982dcf210057a8a78572b2217b667c3beacbf3a0d8b454f6f82837d38"
-dependencies = [
- "getrandom 0.3.3",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ratatui"
 version = "0.28.1"
@@ -2197,12 +2166,9 @@ version = "0.1.25"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "assert_cmd",
- "bytes",
- "chrono",
  "crossterm 0.27.0",
  "dirs-next",
  "flate2",
- "futures",
  "futures-util",
  "prost",
  "prost-build",
@@ -2226,17 +2192,13 @@ dependencies = [
  "assert_cmd",
  "axum",
  "axum-server",
- "bytes",
  "flate2",
- "futures",
  "futures-util",
  "gfxinfo",
  "hostname",
- "nvml-wrapper",
  "once_cell",
  "prost",
  "prost-build",
- "prost-types",
  "protoc-bin-vendored",
  "rcgen",
  "rustls 0.23.31",
@@ -2250,7 +2212,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tonic-build",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
- "tungstenite 0.27.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2513,7 +2474,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustls-pki-types",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-rustls 0.26.2",
- "tungstenite 0.24.0",
+ "tungstenite",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2658,7 +2619,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "http",
  "httparse",
  "log",
- "rand 0.8.5",
+ "rand",
  "rustls 0.23.31",
  "rustls-pki-types",
  "sha1",
@@ -2666,23 +2627,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "utf-8",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tungstenite"
-version = "0.27.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "eadc29d668c91fcc564941132e17b28a7ceb2f3ebf0b9dae3e03fd7a6748eb0d"
-dependencies = [
- "bytes",
- "data-encoding",
- "http",
- "httparse",
- "log",
- "rand 0.9.2",
- "sha1",
- "thiserror 2.0.12",
- "utf-8",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "typenum"
 version = "1.18.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c3aad7a..0da0f00 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,19 +8,16 @@ members = [
 [workspace.dependencies]
 # async + streams
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
-futures = "0.3"
 futures-util = "0.3"
 anyhow = "1.0"
 
 # websocket
 tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.24", features = ["__rustls-tls", "connect"] }
-tungstenite = "0.24"
 url = "2.5"
 
 # JSON + error handling
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
-thiserror = "1.0"
 
 # system stats
 sysinfo = "0.32"
@@ -29,16 +26,12 @@ sysinfo = "0.32"
 ratatui = "0.28"
 crossterm = "0.27"
 
-# date/time
-chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["serde"] }
 
 # web server (remote-agent)
 axum = { version = "0.7", features = ["ws"] }
 
 # protobuf
 prost = "0.13"
-prost-types = "0.13"
-bytes = "1"
 dirs-next = "2"
 
 [profile.release]
diff --git a/socktop/Cargo.toml b/socktop/Cargo.toml
index b17ba0e..7b512b5 100644
--- a/socktop/Cargo.toml
+++ b/socktop/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,21 +9,18 @@ license = "MIT"
 [dependencies]
 tokio = { workspace = true }
 tokio-tungstenite = { workspace = true }
-futures = { workspace = true }
 futures-util = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 url = { workspace = true }
 ratatui = { workspace = true }
 crossterm = { workspace = true }
-chrono = { workspace = true }
 anyhow = { workspace = true }
 flate2 = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["rust_backend"] }
 dirs-next = { workspace = true }
 rustls = "0.23"
 rustls-pemfile = "2.1"
 prost = { workspace = true }
-bytes = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 assert_cmd = "2.0"
diff --git a/socktop_agent/Cargo.toml b/socktop_agent/Cargo.toml
index d450701..c4bc429 100644
--- a/socktop_agent/Cargo.toml
+++ b/socktop_agent/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,13 +13,11 @@ sysinfo = { version = "0.37", features = ["network", "disk", "component"] }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
 flate2 = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["rust_backend"] }
-futures = "0.3"
 futures-util = "0.3.31"
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
-nvml-wrapper = "0.10"
+# nvml-wrapper removed (unused; GPU metrics via gfxinfo only now)
 gfxinfo = "0.1.2"
-tungstenite = "0.27.0"
 once_cell = "1.19"
 axum-server = { version = "0.6", features = ["tls-rustls"] }
 rustls = "0.23"
@@ -27,13 +25,11 @@ rustls-pemfile = "2.1"
 rcgen = "0.13"  # pure-Rust self-signed cert generation (replaces openssl vendored build)
 anyhow = "1"
 hostname = "0.3"
-bytes = { workspace = true }
 prost = { workspace = true }
 time = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["formatting", "macros", "parsing" ] }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 prost-build = "0.13"
-prost-types = { workspace = true }
 tonic-build = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, optional = true }
 protoc-bin-vendored = "3"
 [dev-dependencies]