diff --git a/scripts/src/platform-infra-nginx.ts b/scripts/src/platform-infra-nginx.ts
index ee4896b2..bd6a9a23 100644
--- a/scripts/src/platform-infra-nginx.ts
+++ b/scripts/src/platform-infra-nginx.ts
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ async function apply(config: UniDeskConfig, options: OpsApplyOptions): Promise<R
   try {
     const remoteScript = applyRemoteScript(nginx, target, compose, {
       image: `${distribution.publicBaseUrl}/${fileName(distributedImage)}`,
-      composePlugin: `${distribution.publicBaseUrl}/${fileName(distributedPlugin)}`,
+      composePlugin: `${distribution.publicBaseUrl}/${fileName(distributedPlugin)}.gz`,
     });
     const start = await capture(
       config,
@@ -416,7 +416,11 @@ async function startLocalArtifactSource(
   rmSync(distribution.workDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
   mkdirSync(distribution.workDir, { recursive: true, mode: 0o755 });
   symlinkSync(config.artifacts.image.localPath, imageLink);
-  symlinkSync(config.artifacts.composePlugin.localPath, pluginLink);
+  writeFileSync(
+    `${pluginLink}.gz`,
+    gzipSync(readFileSync(config.artifacts.composePlugin.localPath), { level: 1 }),
+    { mode: 0o644 },
+  );
   const child = spawn(
     "python3",
     [
@@ -570,6 +574,7 @@ function applyRemoteScript(
   return `set -eu
 image_artifact=${shQuote(config.artifacts.image.remotePath)}
 plugin=${shQuote(config.artifacts.composePlugin.remotePath)}
+plugin_archive="$plugin.gz"
 env_file=${shQuote(target.runtime.envPath)}
 compose_file=${shQuote(target.runtime.composePath)}
 log_file=${shQuote(`${target.runtime.logDir}/requests.jsonl`)}
@@ -590,9 +595,11 @@ if [ "$image_sha" != ${shQuote(config.artifacts.image.sha256)} ]; then
   curl -fsSL --retry 2 --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 3600 \
     ${shQuote(artifactUrls.image)} -o "$image_artifact"
 fi
-rm -f "$plugin"
+rm -f "$plugin" "$plugin_archive"
 curl -fsSL --retry 2 --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 3600 \
-  ${shQuote(artifactUrls.composePlugin)} -o "$plugin"
+  ${shQuote(artifactUrls.composePlugin)} -o "$plugin_archive"
+gzip -dc "$plugin_archive" > "$plugin"
+rm -f "$plugin_archive"
 [ "$(sha256sum "$image_artifact" | awk '{print $1}')" = ${shQuote(config.artifacts.image.sha256)} ]
 [ "$(sha256sum "$plugin" | awk '{print $1}')" = ${shQuote(config.artifacts.composePlugin.sha256)} ]
 chmod 0755 "$plugin"