diff --git a/packages/react-native-reanimated/android/build.gradle b/packages/react-native-reanimated/android/build.gradle
index 25fdd37c8a42..73f92a4a71bb 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-reanimated/android/build.gradle
+++ b/packages/react-native-reanimated/android/build.gradle
@@ -323,4 +323,19 @@ dependencies {
     }
 }
 
+if (tasks.findByName("prepareKotlinBuildScriptModel") == null) {
+  task prepareKotlinBuildScriptModel {
+    // This task is run during Gradle Sync in Android Studio.
+  }
+}
+
+// This fixes linking errors due to undefined symbols from libworklets.so.
+// During Gradle Sync, Android Gradle Plugin runs Prefab and treats worklets
+// like a header-only library. During build, config files are not regenerated
+// because the cache key does not change and AGP thinks that they are up-to-date.
+afterEvaluate {
+  prepareKotlinBuildScriptModel.dependsOn(":react-native-worklets:prefabDebugPackage")
+  prepareKotlinBuildScriptModel.dependsOn(":react-native-worklets:prefabReleasePackage")
+}
+
 preBuild.dependsOn(prepareReanimatedHeadersForPrefabs)