diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ed0c106fcfc9d4..c70694eaaddf55 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ project.xcworkspace
 # Gradle
 /build/
 /packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/build/
+/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/build/
 /packages/rn-tester/build
 /packages/rn-tester/android/app/.cxx/
 /packages/rn-tester/android/app/build/
diff --git a/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/build.gradle.kts b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/build.gradle.kts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..2bcc5d56cf1050
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/build.gradle.kts
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+group = "com.facebook.react"
+
+plugins {
+  // kotlin-dsl implies embedded Kotlin and is recommended for Kotlin Gradle plugins
+  // https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html#sec:kotlin-dsl_plugin
+  `kotlin-dsl`
+  `maven-publish`
+  id("com.gradle.plugin-publish") version "1.2.1"
+}
+
+repositories {
+  // Use Maven Central for resolving dependencies.
+  mavenCentral()
+}
+
+dependencies {
+  // Use the Kotlin JUnit 5 integration.
+  testImplementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test-junit5")
+
+  implementation(gradleApi())
+  testRuntimeOnly("org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher")
+}
+
+gradlePlugin {
+  website = "https://reactnative.dev"
+  vcsUrl = "https://github.com/facebook/react-native"
+  plugins {
+    create("nodeJsResolver") {
+      id = "com.facebook.react.nodejsresolver"
+      version = "0.1.0-alpha-0"
+      displayName = "Node.js resolver plugin used by React Native"
+      description =
+          "A Gradle Plugin for correctly resolving node_modules paths from your build/settings.gradle"
+      tags.set(listOf("react", "node", "nodejs", "node_modules", "resolver", "resolution"))
+      implementationClass = "com.facebook.react.nodejsresolver.NodeJsResolverGradlePlugin"
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+tasks.named<Test>("test") {
+  // Use JUnit Jupiter for unit tests.
+  useJUnitPlatform()
+}
diff --git a/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradle/libs.versions.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6
diff --git a/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..d64cd4917707c1
Binary files /dev/null and b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..e6aba2515d5428
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+distributionPath=wrapper/dists
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.5-all.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
+zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradlew b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradlew
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000000..1aa94a42690741
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradlew
@@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+#
+# Copyright © 2015-2021 the original authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+##############################################################################
+#
+#   Gradle start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
+#
+#   Important for running:
+#
+#   (1) You need a POSIX-compliant shell to run this script. If your /bin/sh is
+#       noncompliant, but you have some other compliant shell such as ksh or
+#       bash, then to run this script, type that shell name before the whole
+#       command line, like:
+#
+#           ksh Gradle
+#
+#       Busybox and similar reduced shells will NOT work, because this script
+#       requires all of these POSIX shell features:
+#         * functions;
+#         * expansions «$var», «${var}», «${var:-default}», «${var+SET}»,
+#           «${var#prefix}», «${var%suffix}», and «$( cmd )»;
+#         * compound commands having a testable exit status, especially «case»;
+#         * various built-in commands including «command», «set», and «ulimit».
+#
+#   Important for patching:
+#
+#   (2) This script targets any POSIX shell, so it avoids extensions provided
+#       by Bash, Ksh, etc; in particular arrays are avoided.
+#
+#       The "traditional" practice of packing multiple parameters into a
+#       space-separated string is a well documented source of bugs and security
+#       problems, so this is (mostly) avoided, by progressively accumulating
+#       options in "$@", and eventually passing that to Java.
+#
+#       Where the inherited environment variables (DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS,
+#       and GRADLE_OPTS) rely on word-splitting, this is performed explicitly;
+#       see the in-line comments for details.
+#
+#       There are tweaks for specific operating systems such as AIX, CygWin,
+#       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
+#
+#   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       within the Gradle project.
+#
+#       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
+#
+##############################################################################
+
+# Attempt to set APP_HOME
+
+# Resolve links: $0 may be a link
+app_path=$0
+
+# Need this for daisy-chained symlinks.
+while
+    APP_HOME=${app_path%"${app_path##*/}"}  # leaves a trailing /; empty if no leading path
+    [ -h "$app_path" ]
+do
+    ls=$( ls -ld "$app_path" )
+    link=${ls#*' -> '}
+    case $link in             #(
+      /*)   app_path=$link ;; #(
+      *)    app_path=$APP_HOME$link ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+# This is normally unused
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
+APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
+# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
+
+# Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
+MAX_FD=maximum
+
+warn () {
+    echo "$*"
+} >&2
+
+die () {
+    echo
+    echo "$*"
+    echo
+    exit 1
+} >&2
+
+# OS specific support (must be 'true' or 'false').
+cygwin=false
+msys=false
+darwin=false
+nonstop=false
+case "$( uname )" in                #(
+  CYGWIN* )         cygwin=true  ;; #(
+  Darwin* )         darwin=true  ;; #(
+  MSYS* | MINGW* )  msys=true    ;; #(
+  NONSTOP* )        nonstop=true ;;
+esac
+
+CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
+
+
+# Determine the Java command to use to start the JVM.
+if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
+    if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
+        # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
+        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java
+    else
+        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
+    fi
+    if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: $JAVA_HOME
+
+Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+location of your Java installation."
+    fi
+else
+    JAVACMD=java
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+
+Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+location of your Java installation."
+    fi
+fi
+
+# Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
+if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
+    case $MAX_FD in #(
+      max*)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
+        MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
+            warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
+    esac
+    case $MAX_FD in  #(
+      '' | soft) :;; #(
+      *)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
+        ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
+            warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
+    esac
+fi
+
+# Collect all arguments for the java command, stacking in reverse order:
+#   * args from the command line
+#   * the main class name
+#   * -classpath
+#   * -D...appname settings
+#   * --module-path (only if needed)
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and GRADLE_OPTS environment variables.
+
+# For Cygwin or MSYS, switch paths to Windows format before running java
+if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
+    APP_HOME=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME" )
+    CLASSPATH=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH" )
+
+    JAVACMD=$( cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD" )
+
+    # Now convert the arguments - kludge to limit ourselves to /bin/sh
+    for arg do
+        if
+            case $arg in                                #(
+              -*)   false ;;                            # don't mess with options #(
+              /?*)  t=${arg#/} t=/${t%%/*}              # looks like a POSIX filepath
+                    [ -e "$t" ] ;;                      #(
+              *)    false ;;
+            esac
+        then
+            arg=$( cygpath --path --ignore --mixed "$arg" )
+        fi
+        # Roll the args list around exactly as many times as the number of
+        # args, so each arg winds up back in the position where it started, but
+        # possibly modified.
+        #
+        # NB: a `for` loop captures its iteration list before it begins, so
+        # changing the positional parameters here affects neither the number of
+        # iterations, nor the values presented in `arg`.
+        shift                   # remove old arg
+        set -- "$@" "$arg"      # push replacement arg
+    done
+fi
+
+
+# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
+
+set -- \
+        "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
+        -classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
+        org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
+        "$@"
+
+# Stop when "xargs" is not available.
+if ! command -v xargs >/dev/null 2>&1
+then
+    die "xargs is not available"
+fi
+
+# Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
+#
+# With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.
+#
+# In Bash we could simply go:
+#
+#   readarray ARGS < <( xargs -n1 <<<"$var" ) &&
+#   set -- "${ARGS[@]}" "$@"
+#
+# but POSIX shell has neither arrays nor command substitution, so instead we
+# post-process each arg (as a line of input to sed) to backslash-escape any
+# character that might be a shell metacharacter, then use eval to reverse
+# that process (while maintaining the separation between arguments), and wrap
+# the whole thing up as a single "set" statement.
+#
+# This will of course break if any of these variables contains a newline or
+# an unmatched quote.
+#
+
+eval "set -- $(
+        printf '%s\n' "$DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS" |
+        xargs -n1 |
+        sed ' s~[^-[:alnum:]+,./:=@_]~\\&~g; ' |
+        tr '\n' ' '
+    )" '"$@"'
+
+exec "$JAVACMD" "$@"
diff --git a/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradlew.bat b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradlew.bat
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..6689b85beecde6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/gradlew.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+@rem
+@rem Copyright 2015 the original author or authors.
+@rem
+@rem Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+@rem you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+@rem You may obtain a copy of the License at
+@rem
+@rem      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+@rem
+@rem Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+@rem distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+@rem WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+@rem See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+@rem limitations under the License.
+@rem
+
+@if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
+@rem ##########################################################################
+@rem
+@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
+@rem
+@rem ##########################################################################
+
+@rem Set local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
+if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
+
+set DIRNAME=%~dp0
+if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
+set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
+set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
+
+@rem Resolve any "." and ".." in APP_HOME to make it shorter.
+for %%i in ("%APP_HOME%") do set APP_HOME=%%~fi
+
+@rem Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"
+
+@rem Find java.exe
+if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
+
+set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
+%JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
+
+echo.
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+echo.
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+echo location of your Java installation.
+
+goto fail
+
+:findJavaFromJavaHome
+set JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME:"=%
+set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
+
+if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto execute
+
+echo.
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME%
+echo.
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
+echo location of your Java installation.
+
+goto fail
+
+:execute
+@rem Setup the command line
+
+set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
+
+
+@rem Execute Gradle
+"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain %*
+
+:end
+@rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd
+
+:fail
+rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
+rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
+set EXIT_CODE=%ERRORLEVEL%
+if %EXIT_CODE% equ 0 set EXIT_CODE=1
+if not ""=="%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit %EXIT_CODE%
+exit /b %EXIT_CODE%
+
+:mainEnd
+if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal
+
+:omega
diff --git a/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/settings.gradle.kts b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/settings.gradle.kts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..5251ceaf59a4d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/settings.gradle.kts
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+rootProject.name = "standalone-gradle-plugins"
+
+include("plugin")
diff --git a/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/src/main/kotlin/com/facebook/react/nodejsresolver/NodeJsResolverGradlePlugin.kt b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/src/main/kotlin/com/facebook/react/nodejsresolver/NodeJsResolverGradlePlugin.kt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..1e702a6d162852
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/src/main/kotlin/com/facebook/react/nodejsresolver/NodeJsResolverGradlePlugin.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+package com.facebook.react.nodejsresolver
+
+import groovy.lang.Closure
+import java.io.File
+import org.gradle.api.GradleException
+import org.gradle.api.Plugin
+import org.gradle.api.Project
+import org.gradle.api.initialization.Settings
+import org.gradle.api.plugins.ExtensionAware
+import org.gradle.api.plugins.PluginAware
+
+class NodeJsResolverGradlePlugin : Plugin<PluginAware> {
+  private tailrec fun resolvePackage(packageName: String, startDir: File): File {
+    val candidate = File(startDir, "node_modules/$packageName")
+    if (candidate.exists()) {
+      return candidate.canonicalFile
+    }
+
+    val parentDir = startDir.parentFile
+    if (parentDir == null || startDir.canonicalPath == parentDir.canonicalPath) {
+      throw GradleException(
+          "Failed to find the package '$packageName'. Ensure you have installed node_modules.")
+    }
+    return resolvePackage(packageName, parentDir)
+  }
+
+  override fun apply(target: PluginAware) {
+    if (target !is ExtensionAware) {
+      throw IllegalStateException(
+          "Unsupported plugin target: ${target.javaClass.name} is not ExtensionAware")
+    }
+
+    val rootProjectDir =
+        when (target) {
+          is Settings -> target.rootProject.projectDir
+          is Project -> target.rootProject.projectDir
+          else ->
+              throw IllegalStateException(
+                  "Unsupported plugin target: ${target.javaClass.name} is not Project or Settings")
+        }
+
+    // For convenience and brevity from Groovy scripts, expose a global 'resolveNodePackage'
+    // closure via extensions.extraProperties
+    val resolveNodeJsPackageClosure =
+        object : Closure<Unit>(this) {
+          fun doCall(packageName: String): File {
+            return resolvePackage(packageName, rootProjectDir)
+          }
+
+          fun doCall(packageName: String, startDir: File): File {
+            return resolvePackage(packageName, startDir)
+          }
+        }
+    target.extensions.extraProperties["resolveNodeJsPackage"] = resolveNodeJsPackageClosure
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/src/test/kotlin/com/facebook/react/nodejsresolver/NodeJsResolverGradlePluginTest.kt b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/src/test/kotlin/com/facebook/react/nodejsresolver/NodeJsResolverGradlePluginTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..203ba6db80bc91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/src/test/kotlin/com/facebook/react/nodejsresolver/NodeJsResolverGradlePluginTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+package com.facebook.react.nodejsresolver
+
+import groovy.lang.Closure
+import java.io.File
+import kotlin.test.Test
+import kotlin.test.assertEquals
+import kotlin.test.assertNotNull
+import org.gradle.api.GradleException
+import org.gradle.testfixtures.ProjectBuilder
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.assertThrows
+
+class NodeJsResolverGradlePluginTest {
+  private lateinit var projectDir: File
+  private lateinit var resolveNodeJsPackage: Closure<*>
+
+  @BeforeEach
+  fun setup() {
+    val resource = this::class.java.classLoader.getResource("package.json")
+    assertNotNull(resource)
+    projectDir = File(resource.toURI()).parentFile
+    val project = ProjectBuilder.builder().withProjectDir(projectDir).build()
+    project.plugins.apply("com.facebook.react.nodejsresolver")
+    assert(project.extensions.extraProperties.has("resolveNodeJsPackage"))
+    resolveNodeJsPackage =
+        project.extensions.extraProperties.get("resolveNodeJsPackage") as Closure<*>
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `resolves top-level packages as expected, with one argument`() {
+    assertEquals(resolveNodeJsPackage.call("foo"), File(projectDir, "node_modules/foo"))
+    assertEquals(resolveNodeJsPackage.call("bar"), File(projectDir, "node_modules/bar"))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `does not resolve an isolated package from the top level`() {
+    val exception = assertThrows<GradleException> { resolveNodeJsPackage.call("baz") }
+    assertEquals(
+        exception.message,
+        "Failed to find the package 'baz'. Ensure you have installed node_modules.")
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `can resolve foo's isolated dependencies when starting from foo`() {
+    val fooDir = resolveNodeJsPackage.call("foo")
+    assertEquals(
+        resolveNodeJsPackage.call("baz", fooDir),
+        File(projectDir, "node_modules/foo/node_modules/baz"))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `prefers closer bar to hosted bar when starting from foo`() {
+    val fooDir = resolveNodeJsPackage.call("foo")
+    assertEquals(
+        resolveNodeJsPackage.call("bar", fooDir),
+        File(projectDir, "node_modules/foo/node_modules/bar"))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  fun `can resolve a hoisted dependency starting from foo or root`() {
+    val fooDir = resolveNodeJsPackage.call("foo")
+    assertEquals(resolveNodeJsPackage.call("quux"), File(projectDir, "node_modules/quux"))
+    assertEquals(resolveNodeJsPackage.call("quux", fooDir), File(projectDir, "node_modules/quux"))
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/src/test/resources/package.json b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/src/test/resources/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..c44aedb015e0ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/standalone-gradle-plugins/src/test/resources/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "name": "project"
+}