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I think it is the same problem as with usage of libs  in buildSrc

but I am not using plugin aliases inside `buildSrc`, I am adding the plugins as dependencies in `buildSrc/build.gradle.kts`, so they are added to the classpath, then later, in a normal project, I try to do `alias(libs.plugins.whatever)` and it doesn't work.

I would expect this to work in 7.4

Personally I would prefer to lift the need of adding a version there like in a normal dependency inside `[libraries]` , because so, you can define aliases for your plugins inside included builds that are not generating accessors (not `buildSrc`).

<@UAFGSU86M> when you created this feature what was the reason to force the version?

See <https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/20084> and the linked issue.
We have not found a satisfying API for this but decided it was not blocking for marking the feature as stable