diff --git a/plugin/src/main/scala-2.10/coursier/SbtScalaJarsRepository.scala b/plugin/src/main/scala-2.10/coursier/SbtScalaJarsRepository.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..08f504539
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugin/src/main/scala-2.10/coursier/SbtScalaJarsRepository.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+package coursier
+
+import java.io.File
+
+import coursier.core.Publication
+
+import scalaz.{ EitherT, Monad }
+import scalaz.Scalaz.ToEitherOps
+
+object SbtScalaJarsRepository {
+
+  // Will break in 2.11, where scala-parser-combinators_2.11 and scala-xml_2.11, with different
+  // org and versions, are thrown into the mix.
+  // To handle these well, we would need to fetch actual infos about the scala-* dependencies
+  // from actual repos, and use that from SbtScalaJarsRepository.
+
+  val looseDependencies = Map(
+    "scala-compiler" -> Set(
+      "scala-library",
+      "scala-reflect"
+    ),
+    "scala-reflect" -> Set(
+      "scala-library"
+    )
+  )
+
+}
+
+case class SbtScalaJarsRepository(
+  scalaOrg: String,
+  scalaVersion: String,
+  jars: Seq[File]
+) extends Repository { repo =>
+
+  val foundNames = jars.collect {
+    case jar if jar.getName.endsWith(".jar") =>
+      jar.getName.stripSuffix(".jar")
+  }.toSet
+
+  val dependencies = SbtScalaJarsRepository.looseDependencies
+    .filterKeys(foundNames)
+    .mapValues(_.filter(foundNames))
+
+  val artifacts = jars.collect {
+    case jar if jar.getName.endsWith(".jar") =>
+      val name = jar.getName.stripSuffix(".jar")
+      val mod = Module(scalaOrg, name)
+
+      val proj = Project(
+        mod,
+        scalaVersion,
+        dependencies.getOrElse(name, Set.empty[String]).toVector.map { depName =>
+          val dep = Dependency(Module(scalaOrg, depName), scalaVersion)
+          "compile" -> dep
+        },
+        MavenRepository.defaultConfigurations,
+        None,
+        Nil,
+        Nil,
+        Nil,
+        None,
+        None,
+        None,
+        Seq("compile" -> Publication(name, "jar", "jar", "")),
+        Info("", "", Nil, Nil, None)
+      )
+
+      (mod, scalaVersion) -> ((proj, jar))
+  }.toMap
+
+  val source: Artifact.Source = new Artifact.Source {
+    def artifacts(
+      dependency: Dependency,
+      project: Project,
+      overrideClassifiers: Option[Seq[String]]
+    ) =
+      if (overrideClassifiers.isEmpty)
+        repo.artifacts.get(project.moduleVersion) match {
+          case Some((_, f)) =>
+            Seq(
+              Artifact(
+                f.toURI.toString,
+                Map.empty,
+                Map.empty,
+                Attributes("jar", ""),
+                changing = true,
+                None
+              )
+            )
+          case None =>
+            Nil
+        }
+      else
+        Nil
+  }
+
+  def find[F[_]](
+    module: Module,
+    version: String,
+    fetch: Fetch.Content[F]
+  )(implicit
+    F: Monad[F]
+  ): EitherT[F, String, (Artifact.Source, Project)] = {
+
+    val res = artifacts.get((module, version)) match {
+      case None =>
+        s"not found in internal SBT scala JARs: $module:$version".left
+      case Some((p, _)) =>
+        (source, p).right
+    }
+
+    EitherT(F.point(res))
+  }
+}
diff --git a/plugin/src/main/scala-2.10/coursier/Tasks.scala b/plugin/src/main/scala-2.10/coursier/Tasks.scala
index c27313efe..f5052524d 100644
--- a/plugin/src/main/scala-2.10/coursier/Tasks.scala
+++ b/plugin/src/main/scala-2.10/coursier/Tasks.scala
@@ -429,6 +429,17 @@ object Tasks {
 
       val interProjectRepo = InterProjectRepository(interProjectDependencies)
 
+      val internalSbtScalaProvider = appConfiguration.value.provider.scalaProvider
+      val internalSbtScalaJarsRepo = SbtScalaJarsRepository(
+        so, // this seems plain wrong - this assumes that the scala org of the project is the same
+            // as the one that started SBT. This will scrap the scala org specific JARs by the ones
+            // that booted SBT, even if the latter come from the standard org.scala-lang org.
+            // But SBT itself does it this way, and not doing so may make two different versions
+            // of the scala JARs land in the classpath...
+        internalSbtScalaProvider.version(),
+        internalSbtScalaProvider.jars()
+      )
+
       val ivyHome = sys.props.getOrElse(
         "ivy.home",
         new File(sys.props("user.home")).toURI.getPath + ".ivy2"
@@ -509,7 +520,7 @@ object Tasks {
         }
       }
 
-      val internalRepositories = Seq(globalPluginsRepo, interProjectRepo)
+      val internalRepositories = Seq(globalPluginsRepo, interProjectRepo, internalSbtScalaJarsRepo)
 
       val repositories =
         internalRepositories ++
diff --git a/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/build.sbt b/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/build.sbt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..998a4a95b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/build.sbt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+scalaVersion := appConfiguration.value.provider.scalaProvider.version
+
+coursierCachePolicies := {
+  if (sys.props("os.name").startsWith("Windows"))
+    coursierCachePolicies.value
+  else
+    Seq(coursier.CachePolicy.ForceDownload)
+}
diff --git a/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/project/plugins.sbt b/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/project/plugins.sbt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..152225a9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  val pluginVersion = sys.props.getOrElse(
+    "plugin.version",
+    throw new RuntimeException(
+      """|The system property 'plugin.version' is not defined.
+         |Specify this property using the scriptedLaunchOpts -D.""".stripMargin
+    )
+  )
+
+  addSbtPlugin("io.get-coursier" % "sbt-coursier" % pluginVersion)
+}
diff --git a/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/src/main/scala/Main.scala b/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/src/main/scala/Main.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6d3e69d54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/src/main/scala/Main.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import java.io.File
+import java.nio.file.Files
+
+object Main extends App {
+
+  val cp = new collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer[File]
+
+  def buildCp(loader: ClassLoader): Unit =
+    if (loader != null) {
+      loader match {
+        case u: java.net.URLClassLoader =>
+          cp ++= u.getURLs
+            .map(_.toURI)
+            .map(new File(_))
+        case _ =>
+      }
+
+      buildCp(loader.getParent)
+    }
+
+  buildCp(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader)
+
+  val sbtBase = new File(sys.props.getOrElse(
+    "sbt.global.base",
+    sys.props("user.home") + "/.sbt"
+  ))
+  val prefix = new File(sbtBase, "boot").getAbsolutePath
+
+  def fromBootAndUnique(name: String): Unit = {
+    val jars = cp.filter(_.getName.startsWith(name)).distinct
+    assert(jars.length == 1, s"Found 0 or multiple JARs for $name: $jars")
+
+    val Seq(jar) = jars
+
+    assert(jar.getAbsolutePath.startsWith(prefix), s"JAR for $name ($jar) not under $prefix")
+  }
+
+  fromBootAndUnique("scala-library")
+  fromBootAndUnique("scala-reflect")
+  fromBootAndUnique("scala-compiler")
+
+  Files.write(new File("output").toPath, "OK".getBytes("UTF-8"))
+}
diff --git a/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/test b/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/test
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2182f57b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugin/src/sbt-test/sbt-coursier/scala-jars/test
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+$ delete output
+> run
+$ exists output