diff --git a/guix/scripts/system.scm b/guix/scripts/system.scm
index 67020a2aab..2260bcf985 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/system.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/system.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2014-2023 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2014-2024 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017, 2019 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ (define-module (guix scripts system)
   #:autoload   (guix store database)
                (register-valid-path store-database-file call-with-database)
   #:autoload   (guix build store-copy) (copy-store-item)
-  #:use-module (guix describe)
+  #:autoload   (guix describe) (current-profile)
   #:use-module (guix gexp)
   #:use-module (guix derivations)
   #:use-module (guix diagnostics)
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ (define-module (guix scripts system)
   #:use-module (guix records)
   #:use-module (guix profiles)
   #:use-module (guix scripts)
-  #:use-module (guix channels)
+  #:autoload   (guix channels) (channel-name
+                                channel-url
+                                channel-branch
+                                channel-commit)
   #:use-module (guix scripts build)
   #:autoload   (guix scripts package) (delete-generations
                                        delete-matching-generations
@@ -57,7 +60,8 @@ (define-module (guix scripts system)
                              graph-backend-name lookup-backend)
   #:use-module (guix scripts system reconfigure)
   #:use-module (guix build utils)
-  #:use-module (guix progress)
+  #:autoload   (guix progress) (progress-reporter/bar
+                                call-with-progress-reporter)
   #:use-module ((guix docker) #:select (%docker-image-max-layers))
   #:use-module (gnu build image)
   #:use-module (gnu build install)