diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-bootstrap/build.gradle b/dd-java-agent/agent-bootstrap/build.gradle
index f330a99f517..96936535254 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-bootstrap/build.gradle
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-bootstrap/build.gradle
@@ -25,11 +25,9 @@ dependencies {
   api project(':dd-java-agent:agent-debugger:debugger-bootstrap')
   api project(':components:environment')
   api project(':components:json')
+  api libs.instrumentjava
   api libs.slf4j
   // ^ Generally a bad idea for libraries, but we're shadowing.
-  api(variantOf(libs.instrumentjava, { classifier("all") })) {
-    transitive = false
-  }
 
   testImplementation project(':dd-java-agent:testing')
 }
diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index c89ea692668..4afd5c26321 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ scala33 = "3.3.0"
 autoservice = "1.1.1"
 asm = "9.9"
 byte-buddy = "1.17.7"
-instrument-java = "0.0.2"
+instrument-java = "0.0.3"
 
 # Benchmarks
 jmh = "1.37"