diff --git a/BUILD b/BUILD
index b5aebbeedc76a67fb35094b0b67f46b419bc412c..b4b3af59105b4e7886863d2d94faae31f8eaf71b 100644
--- a/BUILD
+++ b/BUILD
@@ -40,3 +40,24 @@ filegroup(
     visibility = ["//tools/base/build-system:__pkg__"],
 )
 
+
+#######
+# gradle nightly
+#######
+
+# do not use directly. Use //tools/base/build-system:gradle
+filegroup(
+    name = "gradle-distrib-nightly",
+    srcs = ["gradle-3.3-20161116000043+0000-bin.zip"],
+    visibility = ["//tools/base/build-system:__pkg__"],
+)
+
+# gradle-api jar, as generated by gradle when using the gradleApi() magic dependency.
+# do not use directly. Use
+# //tools/base/build-system:gradle-api_neverlink
+# //tools/base/build-system:gradle-api
+filegroup(
+    name = "gradle-api-nightly",
+    srcs = ["gradle-api-3.3-20161116000043+0000.jar"],
+    visibility = ["//tools/base/build-system:__pkg__"],
+)
diff --git a/PREBUILT b/PREBUILT
index 000c68d704c5391ec6b87c2ce890726561c859ce..a3509a63988c4067dd84096585e90bce2dc011e8 100644
--- a/PREBUILT
+++ b/PREBUILT
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14-bin.zip
 https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-bin.zip
 https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.0-all.zip
 https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.2-bin.zip
+https://services.gradle.org/distributions-snapshots/gradle-3.3-20161116000043+0000-bin.zip
diff --git a/gradle-3.3-20161116000043+0000-bin.zip b/gradle-3.3-20161116000043+0000-bin.zip
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diff --git a/gradle-api-3.3-20161116000043+0000.jar b/gradle-api-3.3-20161116000043+0000.jar
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