diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bbappend b/meta-phosphor/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bbappend
index f8d6292..0eab6b3 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bbappend
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bbappend
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 RRECOMMENDS:${PN}:append = " \
+    cli11-dev \
+    function2-dev \
     googletest \
+    libcereal-dev \
     libstdc++-staticdev \
+    nlohmann-json-dev \
     phosphor-dbus-interfaces-yaml \
     phosphor-logging \
     sdbusplus \