How to get reference to plugin id in toml file

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I’m working on an Android project and I’m using the modern plugin definition like so in my top level build.gradle file

plugins {

    alias(libs.plugins.android) apply false
    alias(libs.plugins.kotlin.android) apply false
...

For reference my toml file has the following

android = { id = "com.android.application", version.ref = "android-build-tools-plugin" }
kotlin = { id = "org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm", version.ref = "kotlin" }
kotlin-android = { id = "org.jetbrains.kotlin.android", version.ref = "kotlin" }

Now in the “app” gradle module I would like to apply the plugins that I previously didn’t apply, as I want to apply them on a module by module basis. But ideally I wouldn’t do this:

plugins {
    id 'com.android.application'
    id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.android'
}

I would do something like this

plugins {
    id libs.plugins.android.id
    id libs.plugins.kotlin.android.id
}

Is this possible? I know for getting integers from the versions file you can do things like

compileSdk libs.versions.compileSdk.get() as Integer
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This is available in Gradle 7.4, simply use the alias syntax without the apply false in subprojects.