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You depend on what you need on the classpath from the build script of the convention plugin project.

Usually adding a dependency (implementation or runtimeOnly) to the build.gradle of your convention plugin project (e.g.

buildSrc/build.gradle

) replaces that.

hm, odd. wonder why i'm not experiencing that, and still have to add buildscript{} in the downstream convention plugin consumer

Can you show an MCVE?

yep, i'll dig into it more. thanks