feast-dev
@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@
 
 The Remote Registry is a gRPC client for the registry that implements the `RemoteRegistry` class using the existing `BaseRegistry` interface.
 
+## Installing the client dependency
+
+The remote registry client requires `grpcio`. Install the dedicated client extra before using `registry_type: remote`:
+
+```bash
+pip install "feast[remote]"
+```
+
+The existing `grpcio` extra remains available when running the registry server and includes its reflection and health-checking dependencies.
+
 ## How to configure the client
 
 User needs to create a client side `feature_store.yaml` file, set the `registry_type` to `remote` and provide the server connection configuration.

diff --git a/pixi.lock b/pixi.lock
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ grpcio = [
     "grpcio-reflection>=1.56.2",
     "grpcio-health-checking>=1.56.2",
 ]
+remote = ["grpcio>=1.56.2"]
 hazelcast = ["hazelcast-python-client>=5.1"]
 hbase = ["happybase>=1.2.0,<3"]
 ibis = [