diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1549254a05..2bf9a784c9 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Config/Needs/verdepcheck:
     insightsengineering/teal.slice,
     insightsengineering/teal.transform,
     mllg/checkmate,
+    jeroen/jsonlite,
     r-lib/lifecycle,
     daroczig/logger,
     tidyverse/magrittr,