*I did try to run the app with generated agent config (https://www.graalvm.org/22.2/reference-manual/native-image/guides/use-reachability-metadata-repository-gradle/#build-a-native-ex[…]le-with-the-agent) but it still blows up at runtime.....

doh

for anyone else looking into this -> make sure to enable metadata repository in your native image compilation

metadataRepository {
     enabled.set(true)
 }