diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a2b07a1d8d..4f073338b4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 *.jl.cov
 *.jl.*.cov
 *.jl.mem
-precompile.jl
 build
 Manifest.toml
 
diff --git a/src/precompile.jl b/src/precompile.jl
index 69ad276bf9..d7bbb8bd6b 100644
--- a/src/precompile.jl
+++ b/src/precompile.jl
@@ -1,18 +1,6 @@
 using PrecompileTools: PrecompileTools
 
-const __TEST_NOTEBOOK_ID = uuid1()
-
 PrecompileTools.@compile_workload begin
-    let
-        channel = Channel{Any}(10)
-        Pluto.PlutoRunner.setup_plutologger(
-            __TEST_NOTEBOOK_ID,
-            channel,
-        )
-    end
-    expr = Expr(:toplevel, :(1 + 1))
-    Pluto.PlutoRunner.run_expression(Module(), expr, __TEST_NOTEBOOK_ID, uuid1(), nothing);
-
     nb = Pluto.Notebook([
         Pluto.Cell("""md"Hello *world*" """)
         Pluto.Cell("""[f(x)]""")
diff --git a/src/runner/PlutoRunner/Project.toml b/src/runner/PlutoRunner/Project.toml
index 191b55efc1..58ac9e3d71 100644
--- a/src/runner/PlutoRunner/Project.toml
+++ b/src/runner/PlutoRunner/Project.toml
@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@ InteractiveUtils = "b77e0a4c-d291-57a0-90e8-8db25a27a240"
 Logging = "56ddb016-857b-54e1-b83d-db4d58db5568"
 Markdown = "d6f4376e-aef5-505a-96c1-9c027394607a"
 Pkg = "44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f"
+PrecompileTools = "aea7be01-6a6a-4083-8856-8a6e6704d82a"
 REPL = "3fa0cd96-eef1-5676-8a61-b3b8758bbffb"
 Sockets = "6462fe0b-24de-5631-8697-dd941f90decc"
 UUIDs = "cf7118a7-6976-5b1a-9a39-7adc72f591a4"
 
 [compat]
 FuzzyCompletions = "0.3,0.4,0.5"
+PrecompileTools = "1"
diff --git a/src/runner/PlutoRunner/src/PlutoRunner.jl b/src/runner/PlutoRunner/src/PlutoRunner.jl
index f9f4f7b915..28045def8b 100644
--- a/src/runner/PlutoRunner/src/PlutoRunner.jl
+++ b/src/runner/PlutoRunner/src/PlutoRunner.jl
@@ -2699,4 +2699,6 @@ function setup_plutologger(notebook_id::UUID, log_channel::Channel{Any})
     pluto_log_channels[notebook_id] = log_channel
 end
 
+include("./precompile.jl")
+
 end
diff --git a/src/runner/PlutoRunner/src/precompile.jl b/src/runner/PlutoRunner/src/precompile.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..16bd57b9b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/runner/PlutoRunner/src/precompile.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+using PrecompileTools: PrecompileTools
+using UUIDs: uuid1
+
+const __TEST_NOTEBOOK_ID = uuid1()
+
+PrecompileTools.@compile_workload begin
+    let
+        channel = Channel{Any}(10)
+        PlutoRunner.setup_plutologger(
+            __TEST_NOTEBOOK_ID,
+            channel,
+        )
+    end
+    expr = Expr(:toplevel, :(1 + 1))
+    cell_id = uuid1()
+    workspace = Module()
+    PlutoRunner.run_expression(workspace, expr, __TEST_NOTEBOOK_ID, cell_id, nothing);
+    PlutoRunner.formatted_result_of(__TEST_NOTEBOOK_ID, cell_id,
+                                    false, String[], nothing, workspace; capture_stdout=true)
+end