diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index c63239f8265..0466b5dbeb0 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -227,7 +227,6 @@
     <XUnitRunnerVisualStudioVersion>2.8.2</XUnitRunnerVisualStudioVersion>
     <!-- MEVD is still part of the Semantic Kernel repo -->
     <MicrosoftExtensionsVectorDataAbstractionsVersion>9.7.0</MicrosoftExtensionsVectorDataAbstractionsVersion>
-    <MicrosoftSemanticKernelConnectorsVersion>1.67.0-preview</MicrosoftSemanticKernelConnectorsVersion>
     <MarkdigSignedVersion>0.43.0</MarkdigSignedVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>
diff --git a/eng/packages/ProjectTemplates.props b/eng/packages/ProjectTemplates.props
index 06b05fbdf17..eb053b5270d 100644
--- a/eng/packages/ProjectTemplates.props
+++ b/eng/packages/ProjectTemplates.props
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Data.O200kBase" Version="$(MicrosoftMLTokenizersVersion)" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.AzureAISearch" Version="1.67.1-preview" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.Qdrant" Version="1.67.1-preview" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.SqliteVec" Version="1.67.1-preview" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="CommunityToolkit.VectorData.SqliteVec" Version="1.0.0-preview.3" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_e_sqlite3" Version="3.0.3" />
+    <PackageVersion Update="System.Linq.AsyncEnumerable" Version="10.0.6" />
     <PackageVersion Include="ModelContextProtocol" Version="1.2.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="ModelContextProtocol.AspNetCore" Version="1.2.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="OllamaSharp" Version="5.4.12" />
diff --git a/eng/packages/Tests.props b/eng/packages/Tests.props
index 91c3a92a444..9a13460ce10 100644
--- a/eng/packages/Tests.props
+++ b/eng/packages/Tests.props
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets" Version="9.0.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Data.Cl100kBase" Version="$(MicrosoftMLTokenizersVersion)" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Data.O200kBase" Version="$(MicrosoftMLTokenizersVersion)" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.InMemory" Version="$(MicrosoftSemanticKernelConnectorsVersion)" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.SqliteVec" Version="$(MicrosoftSemanticKernelConnectorsVersion)" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="CommunityToolkit.VectorData.InMemory" Version="1.0.0-preview.3" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="CommunityToolkit.VectorData.SqliteVec" Version="1.0.0-preview.3" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateVerifier" Version="9.0.201" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TestHelper" Version="9.0.200-rtm.25066.4" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Moq" Version="4.18.4" />
diff --git a/src/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates/templates/AIChatWeb-CSharp/AIChatWeb-CSharp.Web/AIChatWeb-CSharp.Web.csproj-in b/src/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates/templates/AIChatWeb-CSharp/AIChatWeb-CSharp.Web/AIChatWeb-CSharp.Web.csproj-in
index 9217a66b599..3d8811c209e 100644
--- a/src/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates/templates/AIChatWeb-CSharp/AIChatWeb-CSharp.Web/AIChatWeb-CSharp.Web.csproj-in
+++ b/src/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates/templates/AIChatWeb-CSharp/AIChatWeb-CSharp.Web/AIChatWeb-CSharp.Web.csproj-in
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Aspire.Qdrant.Client" Version="${PackageVersion:Aspire.Qdrant.Client}" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.Qdrant" Version="${PackageVersion:Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.Qdrant}" />
 <!--#elif (IsLocalVectorStore)-->
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.SqliteVec" Version="${PackageVersion:Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.SqliteVec}" />
+    <PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.VectorData.SqliteVec" Version="${PackageVersion:CommunityToolkit.VectorData.SqliteVec}" />
+    <PackageReference Include="SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_e_sqlite3" Version="${PackageVersion:SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_e_sqlite3}" />
 <!--#endif -->
   </ItemGroup>
 <!--#if (IsAspire) -->
diff --git a/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/IngestionPipelineTests.cs b/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/IngestionPipelineTests.cs
index 2220fa25b99..7159cdc8718 100644
--- a/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/IngestionPipelineTests.cs
+++ b/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/IngestionPipelineTests.cs
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using CommunityToolkit.VectorData.InMemory;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.AI;
 using Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers;
-using Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.InMemory;
 using OpenTelemetry;
 using OpenTelemetry.Resources;
 using OpenTelemetry.Trace;
diff --git a/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests.csproj b/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests.csproj
index c3567512d87..1266db69e0f 100644
--- a/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests.csproj
+++ b/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests.csproj
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
     <PackageReference Include="DocumentFormat.OpenXml" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Data.Cl100kBase" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Data.O200kBase" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.InMemory" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.SqliteVec" />
+    <PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.VectorData.InMemory" />
+    <PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.VectorData.SqliteVec" />
     <!-- Lift CVE-impacted transitive dependency; remove once the direct dependency updates. -->
     <PackageReference Include="OpenTelemetry.Api" />
     <PackageReference Include="OpenTelemetry.Exporter.InMemory" />
diff --git a/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Writers/InMemoryVectorStoreWriterTests.cs b/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Writers/InMemoryVectorStoreWriterTests.cs
index b81b5a2aa79..f9767414976 100644
--- a/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Writers/InMemoryVectorStoreWriterTests.cs
+++ b/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Writers/InMemoryVectorStoreWriterTests.cs
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 // Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
 // The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
+using CommunityToolkit.VectorData.InMemory;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData;
-using Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.InMemory;
 
 namespace Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Writers.Tests;
 
diff --git a/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Writers/SqliteVectorStoreWriterTests.cs b/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Writers/SqliteVectorStoreWriterTests.cs
index b596445b822..7f29da9358d 100644
--- a/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Writers/SqliteVectorStoreWriterTests.cs
+++ b/test/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Tests/Writers/SqliteVectorStoreWriterTests.cs
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 
 using System;
 using System.IO;
+using CommunityToolkit.VectorData.SqliteVec;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData;
-using Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.SqliteVec;
 
 namespace Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.Writers.Tests;
 
diff --git a/test/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates.IntegrationTests/Snapshots/aichatweb/aichatweb.A.verified/aichatweb/aichatweb.Web/aichatweb.Web.csproj b/test/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates.IntegrationTests/Snapshots/aichatweb/aichatweb.A.verified/aichatweb/aichatweb.Web/aichatweb.Web.csproj
index ebe90e63c31..5c67c9650c0 100644
--- a/test/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates.IntegrationTests/Snapshots/aichatweb/aichatweb.A.verified/aichatweb/aichatweb.Web/aichatweb.Web.csproj
+++ b/test/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates.IntegrationTests/Snapshots/aichatweb/aichatweb.A.verified/aichatweb/aichatweb.Web/aichatweb.Web.csproj
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.MarkItDown" Version="{VERSION}" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Data.Cl100kBase" Version="{VERSION}" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Data.O200kBase" Version="{VERSION}" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.SqliteVec" Version="{VERSION}" />
+    <PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.VectorData.SqliteVec" Version="{VERSION}" />
+    <PackageReference Include="SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_e_sqlite3" Version="{VERSION}" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/test/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates.IntegrationTests/Snapshots/aichatweb/aichatweb._defaults.verified/aichatweb/aichatweb.csproj b/test/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates.IntegrationTests/Snapshots/aichatweb/aichatweb._defaults.verified/aichatweb/aichatweb.csproj
index 32d3733d56b..4359829d8ad 100644
--- a/test/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates.IntegrationTests/Snapshots/aichatweb/aichatweb._defaults.verified/aichatweb/aichatweb.csproj
+++ b/test/ProjectTemplates/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates.IntegrationTests/Snapshots/aichatweb/aichatweb._defaults.verified/aichatweb/aichatweb.csproj
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
     <PackageReference Include="PdfPig" Version="{VERSION}" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Data.Cl100kBase" Version="{VERSION}" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers.Data.O200kBase" Version="{VERSION}" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.SqliteVec" Version="{VERSION}" />
+    <PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.VectorData.SqliteVec" Version="{VERSION}" />
+    <PackageReference Include="SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_e_sqlite3" Version="{VERSION}" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
 </Project>