diff --git a/packages/agebd/pyproject.toml b/packages/agebd/pyproject.toml
index 6b6ec64..eacc2a9 100644
--- a/packages/agebd/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/agebd/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [project]
-name = "slc-hla-framework"
+name = "agebd"
 version = "0.1.0"
 description = "SLS HLA Framework"
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ authors = [
 ]
 
 dependencies = [
-    "h5py>=3.14.0",
-    "numpy>=2.0.2",
+    # TODO: use systems epics
     "pyepics>=3.5.8",
     "typer>=0.23.2",
 ]
@@ -40,7 +39,6 @@ package = true
 include = [
     "src/**/*.py", 
     "tests/**/*.py", 
-    "AGEBD-SERVICE-TEMPLATE.py"
 ]
 line-length = 100
 
diff --git a/packages/agebd/src/agebd/utils.py b/packages/agebd/src/agebd/utils.py
index 9629f9d..beeb02d 100644
--- a/packages/agebd/src/agebd/utils.py
+++ b/packages/agebd/src/agebd/utils.py
@@ -24,3 +24,26 @@ def init_logging(log_level: LogLevel):
     Configure logging -- set log level
     """
     logging.basicConfig(level=getattr(logging, log_level.upper()))
+
+
+def printgetversion(filehandle):
+    """
+    Print and get version identifier based on the last 
+    modified time of the filehandle.
+    """
+
+    # Get the path of the current script
+    script_path = os.path.abspath(filehandle)
+
+    # Get the last modification time (in seconds since the epoch)
+    last_modified_timestamp = os.path.getmtime(script_path)
+
+    # Convert to a datetime object
+    last_modified_datetime = datetime.fromtimestamp(last_modified_timestamp)
+
+    # Format the datetime object as "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS"
+    formatted_time = last_modified_datetime.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
+
+    print(f"Last modified: {formatted_time}")
+
+    return formatted_time[:10]
diff --git a/services/000-master/app/AGEBD-SERVICE-MASTER.py b/services/000-master/app/AGEBD-SERVICE-MASTER.py
index 830d0ba..004d58d 100644
--- a/services/000-master/app/AGEBD-SERVICE-MASTER.py
+++ b/services/000-master/app/AGEBD-SERVICE-MASTER.py
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ Usage: screen -S MASTER bash -c 'source /opt/gfa/python ; python AGEBD-SERVICE-M
 
 import traceback
 import html
-import numpy as np
-from AGEBD import printgetversion, pvlink as PV
+from agebd.pv import PVLink as PV
+from agebd.utils import printgetversion
 from time import sleep, perf_counter
 from datetime import datetime
 import subprocess
@@ -305,4 +305,4 @@ else:
     # confirm unknown exit
     pvs.status.put('unknown crash')
     print('Service crashed without exception!')
-    print(traceback.format_exc())
\ No newline at end of file
+    print(traceback.format_exc())