diff --git a/docker/helion.Dockerfile b/docker/helion.Dockerfile
index 297bae0d0..b48561949 100644
--- a/docker/helion.Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/helion.Dockerfile
@@ -60,6 +60,18 @@ RUN sudo uv pip install --system flash-linear-attention
 # --no-build-isolation: use system torch (cu130) instead of build env pulling cu128 from PyPI
 RUN sudo uv pip install --system --no-build-isolation causal-conv1d
 
+# jq for payload extraction in the workflow
+RUN sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends jq \
+    && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Kernelbot runner dependencies (only what github-runner.py / run_eval.py actually imports)
+RUN sudo uv pip install --system \
+    PyGithub \
+    aiohttp \
+    python-dotenv \
+    requests \
+    PyYAML
+
 # # tinygrad
 # RUN sudo uv pip install --system tinygrad~=0.10
 
diff --git a/src/kernelbot/cogs/leaderboard_cog.py b/src/kernelbot/cogs/leaderboard_cog.py
index 457321f38..977212b9c 100644
--- a/src/kernelbot/cogs/leaderboard_cog.py
+++ b/src/kernelbot/cogs/leaderboard_cog.py
@@ -635,8 +635,6 @@ async def get_help(
 # Leaderboard Commands Help
 
 ## Basic Commands
-- `/get-api-url` \
-- For popcorn-cli users, get the API URL
 - `/leaderboard list` \
 - View all active leaderboards
 - `/leaderboard help` \
diff --git a/src/kernelbot/cogs/misc_cog.py b/src/kernelbot/cogs/misc_cog.py
index 09e78bc8a..5b4d24886 100644
--- a/src/kernelbot/cogs/misc_cog.py
+++ b/src/kernelbot/cogs/misc_cog.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import os
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
 import discord
@@ -51,19 +50,3 @@ async def verify_db(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
             message = "Error interacting with the database"
             logger.error(f"{message}: {str(e)}", exc_info=True)
             await send_discord_message(interaction, f"{message}.")
-
-    @app_commands.command(name="get-api-url")
-    async def get_api_url(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
-        if not os.environ.get("HEROKU_APP_DEFAULT_DOMAIN_NAME"):
-            await send_discord_message(
-                interaction,
-                "No `HEROKU_APP_DEFAULT_DOMAIN_NAME` present,"
-                " are you sure you aren't running locally?",
-                ephemeral=True,
-            )
-        else:
-            await send_discord_message(
-                interaction,
-                f"API URL: `https://{os.environ['HEROKU_APP_DEFAULT_DOMAIN_NAME'].rstrip('/')}`",
-                ephemeral=True,
-            )