diff --git a/deps.edn b/deps.edn
index 5b6f77bb..021726e8 100644
--- a/deps.edn
+++ b/deps.edn
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@
         org.clojure/data.priority-map {:mvn/version "1.1.0"}
         insn/insn {:mvn/version "0.5.2"}
         org.clojure/core.rrb-vector {:mvn/version "0.1.2"}
-        org.babashka/cli {:mvn/version "0.6.44"}}
+        org.babashka/cli {:mvn/version "0.6.44"}
+        org.babashka/http-client {:mvn/version "0.0.2"}}
  :aliases {:babashka/dev
            {:main-opts ["-m" "babashka.main"]}
            :profile
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 9f0053fc..97c54ba9 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@
                  [com.github.clj-easy/graal-build-time "0.1.0"]
                  [rewrite-clj/rewrite-clj "1.1.45"]
                  [insn/insn "0.5.2"]
-                 [org.babashka/cli "0.6.44"]]
+                 [org.babashka/cli "0.6.44"]
+                 [org.babashka/http-client "0.0.2"]]
   :plugins       [[org.kipz/lein-meta-bom "0.1.1"]]
   :metabom {:jar-name "metabom.jar"}
   :profiles {:feature/xml  {:source-paths ["feature-xml"]
diff --git a/resources/META-INF/babashka/deps.edn b/resources/META-INF/babashka/deps.edn
index 5b6f77bb..021726e8 100644
--- a/resources/META-INF/babashka/deps.edn
+++ b/resources/META-INF/babashka/deps.edn
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@
         org.clojure/data.priority-map {:mvn/version "1.1.0"}
         insn/insn {:mvn/version "0.5.2"}
         org.clojure/core.rrb-vector {:mvn/version "0.1.2"}
-        org.babashka/cli {:mvn/version "0.6.44"}}
+        org.babashka/cli {:mvn/version "0.6.44"}
+        org.babashka/http-client {:mvn/version "0.0.2"}}
  :aliases {:babashka/dev
            {:main-opts ["-m" "babashka.main"]}
            :profile
diff --git a/sci b/sci
index 0fee9195..65622e65 160000
--- a/sci
+++ b/sci
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 0fee91953e0d0504e80a5997585c6d00833f98c0
+Subproject commit 65622e650612c7482260d75dc3be86e30a4ad64e
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/http_client.clj b/src/babashka/impl/http_client.clj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1c1f52d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/http_client.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+(ns babashka.impl.http-client
+  (:require
+   [babashka.http-client]
+   [sci.core :as sci]))
+
+(def hns (sci/create-ns 'babashka.http-client))
+
+(def http-client-namespace
+  (sci/copy-ns babashka.http-client hns))
+
diff --git a/src/babashka/main.clj b/src/babashka/main.clj
index b8a94a06..298eda52 100644
--- a/src/babashka/main.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/main.clj
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
    [babashka.impl.error-handler :refer [error-handler]]
    [babashka.impl.features :as features]
    [babashka.impl.fs :refer [fs-namespace]]
+   [babashka.impl.http-client :refer [http-client-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.nrepl-server :refer [nrepl-server-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.pods :as pods]
    [babashka.impl.pprint :refer [pprint-namespace]]
@@ -422,6 +423,7 @@ Use bb run --help to show this help output.
                   ;; 'fork (sci/copy-var sci/fork sci-ns)
                   }
        'babashka.cli cli/cli-namespace
+       'babashka.http-client http-client-namespace
        }
     features/xml?  (assoc 'clojure.data.xml @(resolve 'babashka.impl.xml/xml-namespace)
                           'clojure.data.xml.event @(resolve 'babashka.impl.xml/xml-event-namespace)