diff --git a/Directory.Packages.props b/Directory.Packages.props
index d0b055a..8ac7177 100644
--- a/Directory.Packages.props
+++ b/Directory.Packages.props
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
     <PackageVersion Include="coverlet.collector" Version="3.2.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp" Version="5.0.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.CSharp" Version="4.7.0" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub" Version="8.0.0" />
     <!--
       Microsoft.Bcl.Memory is pinned via central transitive pinning to
       remediate GHSA-73j8-2gch-69rq (CVE-2026-26127, .NET DoS in
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e487857..662e10d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ Prior versions of TypeChat.NET used the pre-release programming model of Semanti
 
 ## Building
 
+Use a serviced .NET SDK 8 or newer, including when building from Visual Studio.
+[Source Link is included in .NET SDK 8+](https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink#using-source-link-in-net-projects),
+so the projects use its SDK-provided implementation rather than overriding it with legacy NuGet packages.
+
 * Visual Studio 2022. 
   * Load **typechat.sln** from the root directory. 
   * Restore packages
diff --git a/src/package/nuget.props b/src/package/nuget.props
index 77e5782..b522a0a 100644
--- a/src/package/nuget.props
+++ b/src/package/nuget.props
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
     <PackageReadmeFile>NUGET.md</PackageReadmeFile>
 
     <!-- Build symbol package (.snupkg) to distribute the PDB containing Source Link -->
+    <!-- .NET SDK 8+ supplies Source Link; legacy package references override its serviced version. -->
     <IncludeSymbols>true</IncludeSymbols>
     <SymbolPackageFormat>snupkg</SymbolPackageFormat>
 
@@ -28,12 +29,6 @@
     <DocumentationFile>bin\$(Configuration)\$(TargetFramework)\$(AssemblyName).xml</DocumentationFile>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <!-- SourceLink allows step-through debugging for source hosted on GitHub. -->
-    <!-- https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink -->
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub" PrivateAssets="All" />
-  </ItemGroup>
-
   <ItemGroup>
     <!-- Include icon.png and NUGET.md in the project. -->
     <None Include="../package/icon.png" Link="icon.png" Pack="true" PackagePath="." />