diff --git a/Dockerfile.tmpl b/Dockerfile.tmpl
index 86c5426f..37cd5330 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.tmpl
+++ b/Dockerfile.tmpl
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ RUN uv pip install --no-build-isolation --no-cache --system "git+https://github.
 # b/404590350: Ray and torchtune have conflicting cli named `tune`. `ray` is not part of Colab's base image. Re-install `tune` to ensure the torchtune CLI is available by default.
 # b/468367647: Unpin protobuf, version greater than v5.29.5 causes issues with numerous packages
 RUN uv pip install --system --force-reinstall --no-cache --no-deps torchtune
-RUN uv pip install --system --force-reinstall --no-cache "protobuf==5.29.5"
+RUN uv pip install --system --force-reinstall --no-cache "protobuf==5.29.6"
 # b/493600019: Colab base image ships numba that does not support NumPy 2.4; upgrade to latest.
 RUN uv pip install --system --force-reinstall --no-cache numba
 
diff --git a/kaggle_requirements.txt b/kaggle_requirements.txt
index 18b5fbdd..957bedf1 100644
--- a/kaggle_requirements.txt
+++ b/kaggle_requirements.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ jupyter_server_proxy
 jupyterlab
 jupyterlab-lsp
 kaggle>=1.8.3
+kaggle-benchmarks
 kaggle-environments
 kagglehub[pandas-datasets,hf-datasets,signing]>=0.4.2
 keras-cv
diff --git a/tests/test_kaggle_benchmarks.py b/tests/test_kaggle_benchmarks.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..57d2d9dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_kaggle_benchmarks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import unittest
+from packaging.version import parse
+import kaggle_benchmarks
+
+class TestKaggleBenchmarks(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_version(self):
+        self.assertGreaterEqual(parse(kaggle_benchmarks.__version__), parse("0.6"))
+
+    def test_core_imports(self):
+        from kaggle_benchmarks import (
+            Actor,
+            ChatRoom,
+            ExecutionMode,
+            LLMChat,
+            Participant,
+            Run,
+            Runs,
+            Usage,
+            benchmark,
+            task,
+        )