diff --git a/.jules/bolt.md b/.jules/bolt.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..47e7789
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jules/bolt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+## 2025-05-14 - Initial Performance Audit
+**Learning:** The project is a small Python template. Major overhead comes from `uv run` and `click` imports.
+**Action:** Minimize overhead in CLI entry points and avoid unnecessary imports in hot paths.
diff --git a/project/app.py b/project/app.py
index 4e9ac38..2c424b5 100644
--- a/project/app.py
+++ b/project/app.py
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
-from click import command, option
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
 
 
-@command(context_settings={"help_option_names": ["-h", "--help"]}, help="Say hello")
-@option("-n", "--name", default="World", help="Name", show_default=True)
-def main(name: str = "World"):
+def main(argv: list[str] | None = None):
     """
     Say hello to the given name.
 
     Args:
-      name: the name to be greeted
+      argv: list of command line arguments
     """
-    print(f"Hello {name}!")
+    parser = ArgumentParser(prog="app", description="Say hello", add_help=False)
+    parser.add_argument("-n", "--name", default="World", help="Name (default: World)")
+    parser.add_argument("-h", "--help", action="help", help="Show this message and exit.")
+    args = parser.parse_args(argv)
+    print(f"Hello {args.name}!")
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7b1fdf4..201fb40 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ readme = "docs/README.md"
 authors = [{name = "Amr Abed", email = "amrabed@gmail.com"}]
 license = {text = "MIT"}
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
-dependencies = [
-    "click>=8.1.8",
-]
+dependencies = []
 
 [project.scripts]
 app = "project.app:main"
diff --git a/tests/test_app.py b/tests/test_app.py
index c2a18e3..6d080ab 100644
--- a/tests/test_app.py
+++ b/tests/test_app.py
@@ -1,8 +1,17 @@
 from pytest import main
+from project.app import main as app_main
+from io import StringIO
+from contextlib import redirect_stdout
 
 
-def test_main():
-    pass
+def test_main(monkeypatch):
+    with redirect_stdout(StringIO()) as out:
+        app_main(["-n", "Bolt"])
+        assert out.getvalue().strip() == "Hello Bolt!"
+
+    with redirect_stdout(StringIO()) as out:
+        app_main([])
+        assert out.getvalue().strip() == "Hello World!"
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 720563f..c51ffeb 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -573,9 +573,6 @@ wheels = [
 name = "project"
 version = "0.1.0"
 source = { editable = "." }
-dependencies = [
-    { name = "click" },
-]
 
 [package.dev-dependencies]
 dev = [
@@ -590,7 +587,6 @@ dev = [
 ]
 
 [package.metadata]
-requires-dist = [{ name = "click", specifier = ">=8.1.8" }]
 
 [package.metadata.requires-dev]
 dev = [