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the configuration you want to affect is not any of `configurations`, but rather `buildscript.configurations.classpath`

Thanks for the suggestion! Going to try that now

if you have buildSrc, adding the AGP dependency (as a normal dependency,  but a plugin or buildscript dependency) and forcing the GRPC version there will end up in the classpath ahead of all projects' buildscripts

`buildscript.configurations.classpath`  worked like a charm, thanks so much