ik solver stuck in place

greetings!

I'm struggling with some of the default ik solver functionality: Ive got two solvers, one for each leg of my player character. I've got the character fully realized, however when I go to test the game the ik solvers don't move with the character they just stay where I placed them in the scene, pinning the limbs. how do I fix this?
edit: it appears the problem is the dependency of the animation ive created on the transform component's position property of the ik solver target. but after multiple discrete attempts I can't accomplish skeletal animations with ik solvers otherwise. this issue seems uncharacteristically limiting for the 2D ik package. I'll try taking another approach but it seems I'm likely doing something wrong