diff --git a/ai-logic/firebase-ai/CHANGELOG.md b/ai-logic/firebase-ai/CHANGELOG.md
index 14d8c925401..d6f7c3c872d 100644
--- a/ai-logic/firebase-ai/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/ai-logic/firebase-ai/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Unreleased
 
+- [feature] Added [firebase_app_check] as a dependency of the SDK (#8225)
 - [feature] Added the `retrievalConfig` argument to `TemplateToolConfig` (#8107)
 - [fixed] Fixed citation indices to be native UTF-16 instead of UTF-8. (#8056)
 
@@ -176,4 +177,3 @@ using [specific Gemini models](/docs/vertex-ai/models).
 
 Note: This feature is in Public Preview, which means that it is not subject to any SLA or
 deprecation policy and could change in backwards-incompatible ways.
-
diff --git a/ai-logic/firebase-ai/firebase-ai.gradle.kts b/ai-logic/firebase-ai/firebase-ai.gradle.kts
index 8b6770239f3..fcd0d0c5a5a 100644
--- a/ai-logic/firebase-ai/firebase-ai.gradle.kts
+++ b/ai-logic/firebase-ai/firebase-ai.gradle.kts
@@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ dependencies {
   implementation(libs.ktor.client.logging)
 
   api(libs.firebase.common)
+  api(project(":appcheck:firebase-appcheck"))
   implementation(libs.firebase.components)
   implementation(libs.firebase.annotations)
-  implementation("com.google.firebase:firebase-appcheck-interop:17.1.0")
+  implementation(project(":appcheck:firebase-appcheck-interop"))
   implementation(libs.androidx.annotation)
   implementation(libs.kotlinx.serialization.json)
   implementation(libs.androidx.core.ktx)