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```project(":child:grandchild") {
	plugins {
		id("war")
		id("org.springframework.boot")
	}
	dependencies {
		providedRuntime("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat")
		//...
	}
	//...
}```
gives me unresolved reference: `providedRuntime`
Any ideas?

:thinking_face: looks like a bug
The `plugins {}` block is only supported for the current project, not when doing config injection with `[all|sub]projects {}` or `project(":path") {}`
The bug here is that you couldn’t notice, it should have failed telling you this is not possible.

To apply plugins to subprojects, use `project(":path") { apply { plugin("some-id") } }`

Could you report an issue to `gradle/kotlin-dsl` about not failing when the `plugins {}` block is used in a project configuration block?

Yup, I confirm that with `apply{ plugin("") }` and `"providedRuntime"()` it works

<@U19P7SPFW> <https://github.com/gradle/kotlin-dsl/issues/625>
Sorry for the cumbersome name, I do quite often fail in that regard :slightly_smiling_face:

By the way is there a trick to make kotlin generate `providedRuntime` accessor here? So that I can omit the quotes?

Nope, no way yet, but we are considering how to achieve this

Ok, not a huge problem, just a nice-to-have :slightly_smiling_face:
Thank you!