diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index a1a94c5..aaf487c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ jobs:
       strategy:
         fail-fast: false
         matrix:
-          IMAGE: [base-ssec-project,project-ans-modeling,tutorial-scipy-2024]
+          IMAGE: [minimal,base-ssec-project,project-ans-modeling,tutorial-scipy-2024]
       steps:
       - name: Checkout Repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/minimal/Dockerfile b/minimal/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b4ec784
--- /dev/null
+++ b/minimal/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# ONBUILD instructions in base-image/Dockerfile are used to
+# perform certain actions based on the presence of specific
+# files (such as conda-linux-64.lock, start) in this repo.
+# Refer to the base-image/Dockerfile for documentation.
+ARG SSEC_BASE_IMAGE_TAG=latest
+FROM ghcr.io/uw-ssec/base-image:${SSEC_BASE_IMAGE_TAG}
diff --git a/minimal/apt.txt b/minimal/apt.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f803ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/minimal/apt.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+apt-utils
+git
+vim
diff --git a/minimal/environment.yml b/minimal/environment.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c0a3f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/minimal/environment.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+name: minimal
+channels:
+  - conda-forge
+  - nodefaults
+dependencies:
+  - python>=3.12
+  - conda-lock
+  - pip