diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
index c1bfaee872f7..afb508c3b3c1 100644
--- a/release-please-config.json
+++ b/release-please-config.json
@@ -3,6 +3,72 @@
   "commit-batch-size": 10,
   "initial-version": "0.1.0",
   "packages": {
+    "core/common": {
+      "component": "common"
+    },
+    "core/dev-packages/jsdoc-fresh": {
+      "component": "jsdoc-fresh"
+    },
+    "core/dev-packages/jsdoc-region-tag": {
+      "component": "jsdoc-region-tag"
+    },
+    "core/dev-packages/pack-n-play": {
+      "component": "pack-n-play"
+    },
+    "core/generator/gapic-generator-typescript": {
+      "component": "gapic-generator"
+    },
+    "core/packages/gapic-node-processing": {
+      "component": "gapic-node-processing"
+    },
+    "core/packages/gax": {
+      "component": "google-gax"
+    },
+    "core/packages/gaxios": {
+      "component": "gaxios"
+    },
+    "core/packages/gcp-metadata": {
+      "component": "gcp-metadata"
+    },
+    "core/packages/google-auth-library-nodejs": {
+      "component": "google-auth-library"
+    },
+    "core/packages/logging-utils": {
+      "component": "google-logging-utils"
+    },
+    "core/packages/nodejs-googleapis-common": {
+      "component": "googleapis-common"
+    },
+    "core/packages/nodejs-proto-files": {
+      "component": "google-proto-files"
+    },
+    "core/packages/proto3-json-serializer-nodejs": {
+      "component": "proto3-json-serializer"
+    },
+    "core/packages/retry-request": {
+      "component": "retry-request"
+    },
+    "core/packages/teeny-request": {
+      "component": "teeny-request"
+    },
+    "core/packages/tools": {
+      "component": "gapic-tools"
+    },
+    "core/packages/typeless-sample-bot": {
+      "component": "typeless-sample-bot"
+    },
+    "core/paginator": {
+      "component": "paginator"
+    },
+    "core/precise-date": {
+      "component": "precise-date"
+    },
+    "core/projectify": {
+      "component": "projectify"
+    },
+    "core/promisify": {
+      "component": "promisify"
+    },
     "packages/google-ads-admanager": {},
     "packages/google-ads-datamanager": {},
     "packages/google-ai-generativelanguage": {},
diff --git a/release-please-submodules.json b/release-please-submodules.json
index 8ba652883407..7e9f1a070536 100644
--- a/release-please-submodules.json
+++ b/release-please-submodules.json
@@ -2,72 +2,6 @@
   "commit-batch-size": 10,
   "include-component-in-tag": true,
   "packages": {
-    "core/common": {
-      "component": "common"
-    },
-    "core/dev-packages/jsdoc-fresh": {
-      "component": "jsdoc-fresh"
-    },
-    "core/dev-packages/jsdoc-region-tag": {
-      "component": "jsdoc-region-tag"
-    },
-    "core/dev-packages/pack-n-play": {
-      "component": "pack-n-play"
-    },
-    "core/generator/gapic-generator-typescript": {
-      "component": "gapic-generator"
-    },
-    "core/packages/gapic-node-processing": {
-      "component": "gapic-node-processing"
-    },
-    "core/packages/gax": {
-      "component": "google-gax"
-    },
-    "core/packages/gaxios": {
-      "component": "gaxios"
-    },
-    "core/packages/gcp-metadata": {
-      "component": "gcp-metadata"
-    },
-    "core/packages/google-auth-library-nodejs": {
-      "component": "google-auth-library"
-    },
-    "core/packages/logging-utils": {
-      "component": "google-logging-utils"
-    },
-    "core/packages/nodejs-googleapis-common": {
-      "component": "googleapis-common"
-    },
-    "core/packages/nodejs-proto-files": {
-      "component": "google-proto-files"
-    },
-    "core/packages/proto3-json-serializer-nodejs": {
-      "component": "proto3-json-serializer"
-    },
-    "core/packages/retry-request": {
-      "component": "retry-request"
-    },
-    "core/packages/teeny-request": {
-      "component": "teeny-request"
-    },
-    "core/packages/tools": {
-      "component": "gapic-tools"
-    },
-    "core/packages/typeless-sample-bot": {
-      "component": "typeless-sample-bot"
-    },
-    "core/paginator": {
-      "component": "paginator"
-    },
-    "core/precise-date": {
-      "component": "precise-date"
-    },
-    "core/projectify": {
-      "component": "projectify"
-    },
-    "core/promisify": {
-      "component": "promisify"
-    },
     "handwritten/bigquery": {
       "component": "bigquery"
     },