diff --git a/services/nginx/app/resources/edge-gateway-agent/agent.php b/services/nginx/app/resources/edge-gateway-agent/agent.php
index 1c9c3c3b..8797a448 100644
--- a/services/nginx/app/resources/edge-gateway-agent/agent.php
+++ b/services/nginx/app/resources/edge-gateway-agent/agent.php
@@ -2890,7 +2890,10 @@ final class TruckwashEdgeAgent
     {
         $reloaded = AgentConfig::load($this->config->path);
         $this->config = $reloaded;
-        $this->workerHttp = new HttpJsonClient((string)$this->config->get('workerBaseUrl', self::DEFAULT_WORKER_BASE_URL));
+        $this->workerHttp = new HttpJsonClient(
+            (string)$this->config->get('workerBaseUrl', self::DEFAULT_WORKER_BASE_URL),
+            $this->workerAuthorizationHeaders()
+        );
         $this->configureBrokerClient();
     }
 
diff --git a/services/nginx/app/tests/Unit/Selfserve/EdgeGatewayUpdateLifecycleTest.php b/services/nginx/app/tests/Unit/Selfserve/EdgeGatewayUpdateLifecycleTest.php
index 664549ac..5087d81d 100644
--- a/services/nginx/app/tests/Unit/Selfserve/EdgeGatewayUpdateLifecycleTest.php
+++ b/services/nginx/app/tests/Unit/Selfserve/EdgeGatewayUpdateLifecycleTest.php
@@ -134,6 +134,16 @@ it('builds the installer around the compose stack artifacts and management polli
     expect($agentSource)->toContain("'last_transport_failure_at'");
     expect($agentSource)->toContain("'last_transport_error'");
     expect($agentSource)->toContain('private function recordTransportFailure(string $context, Throwable $throwable): void');
+    expect($agentSource)->toContain(
+        "private function reloadConfigFromDisk(): void\n" .
+        "    {\n" .
+        "        \$reloaded = AgentConfig::load(\$this->config->path);\n" .
+        "        \$this->config = \$reloaded;\n" .
+        "        \$this->workerHttp = new HttpJsonClient(\n" .
+        "            (string)\$this->config->get('workerBaseUrl', self::DEFAULT_WORKER_BASE_URL),\n" .
+        "            \$this->workerAuthorizationHeaders()\n" .
+        '        );'
+    );
     expect($edgeDockerfileSource)->toContain('FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}');
     expect($edgeDockerfileSource)->not->toContain('docker-php-ext-install');
     expect($edgeDockerfileSource)->toContain('extension_loaded($extension)');