diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0106a70..c732b29 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ docs = [
 ]
 dashboard = [
     "gradio>=4.0",
+    # dashboard.py imports pandas directly, without the guard it puts around
+    # gradio. It only works today because gradio happens to depend on pandas;
+    # declare it rather than rely on another package's dependency list.
+    "pandas>=2.0",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]
diff --git a/tests/test_dashboard.py b/tests/test_dashboard.py
index 0032b35..8c5dc51 100644
--- a/tests/test_dashboard.py
+++ b/tests/test_dashboard.py
@@ -246,3 +246,40 @@ def test_dashboard_websocket_url(self) -> None:
 
         dashboard = Dashboard(host="localhost", port=8080)
         assert dashboard.ws_url == "ws://localhost:8080/ws"
+
+
+class TestDashboardExtra:
+    """The `dashboard` extra must declare what dashboard.py imports.
+
+    `_create_gradio_app` guards its gradio import and then imports pandas
+    unguarded. That works only because gradio happens to depend on pandas, so
+    the extra has been relying on another package's dependency list. If gradio
+    ever drops it, the failure is a bare ModuleNotFoundError with an unhelpful
+    "pip install pyetwkit[dashboard]" already satisfied.
+    """
+
+    def test_extra_declares_every_package_the_dashboard_imports(self) -> None:
+        import importlib.metadata
+        import re
+
+        requires = importlib.metadata.requires("pyetwkit") or []
+        # The marker is quoted differently depending on which build produced the
+        # metadata, so match either form rather than one of them.
+        marker = re.compile(r"""extra\s*==\s*['"]dashboard['"]""")
+        declared = {
+            re.split(r"[<>=!~\[ ;]", requirement)[0].strip().lower()
+            for requirement in requires
+            if marker.search(requirement)
+        }
+
+        assert "gradio" in declared, sorted(declared)
+        assert "pandas" in declared, (
+            "dashboard.py imports pandas unguarded, so the dashboard extra has "
+            f"to declare it. Declared: {sorted(declared)}"
+        )
+
+    def test_dashboard_module_imports_without_the_extra(self) -> None:
+        """Only `_create_gradio_app` needs gradio; importing must not."""
+        from pyetwkit.dashboard import Dashboard
+
+        assert Dashboard is not None