diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index dc5307c..90f01f2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ futures = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 log = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
 tokio = { version = "1", optional = true, features = ["rt", "net", "time"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", optional = true, features = ["codec"] }
-service-binding = { version = "^3" }
+service-binding = { version = "^3", optional = true }
 ssh-encoding = { version = "0.2" }
 ssh-key = { version = "0.6", features = ["crypto", "alloc"] }
 thiserror = "1"
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ secrecy = "0.8"
 [features]
 default = ["agent"]
 codec = ["tokio-util"]
-agent = ["futures", "log", "tokio", "async-trait", "codec"]
+agent = ["futures", "log", "tokio", "async-trait", "codec", "service-binding"]
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 env_logger = "0.11.5"