diff --git a/.github/workflows/changesets.yml b/.github/workflows/changesets.yml
index c4bcc0c05f63..edaa365b863f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/changesets.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/changesets.yml
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ jobs:
           CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN }}
           WORKERS_NEW_CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID: ${{ secrets.WORKERS_NEW_CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID }}
           WORKERS_NEW_CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.WORKERS_NEW_CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN }}
+          WORKERS_DEPLOY_AND_CONFIG_CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.WORKERS_DEPLOY_AND_CONFIG_CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN }}
 
       - name: Create C3 Diffs PR
         if: contains(steps.changesets.outputs.publishedPackages, '"create-cloudflare"')
diff --git a/packages/workers-shared/asset-worker/README.md b/packages/workers-shared/asset-worker/README.md
index eee3c83195aa..555e74dd7291 100644
--- a/packages/workers-shared/asset-worker/README.md
+++ b/packages/workers-shared/asset-worker/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # `asset-worker`
 
-The Asset Worker is a [Cloudflare Worker](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/) that is responsible of serving assets for Workers deployed on the edge, that contain static assets as well.
+The Asset Worker is a [Cloudflare Worker](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/) that is responsible of serving static assets. It is deployed in production and is also used in local `wrangler dev`.
diff --git a/packages/workers-shared/asset-worker/wrangler.toml b/packages/workers-shared/asset-worker/wrangler.toml
index 52c101d14c04..97a2c3faf404 100644
--- a/packages/workers-shared/asset-worker/wrangler.toml
+++ b/packages/workers-shared/asset-worker/wrangler.toml
@@ -8,5 +8,7 @@
 # (see packages/wrangler/src/dev/miniflare.ts -> buildMiniflareOptions())
 ##
 name = "asset-worker"
+account_id = "0f1b8aa119a907021f659042f95ea9ba"
+workers_dev = false
 main = "src/index.ts"
 compatibility_date = "2024-07-31"
diff --git a/packages/workers-shared/package.json b/packages/workers-shared/package.json
index 9850528a427b..a128ee2f65c4 100644
--- a/packages/workers-shared/package.json
+++ b/packages/workers-shared/package.json
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 		"check:type": "pnpm run check:type:tests && tsc",
 		"check:type:tests": "tsc -p ./asset-worker/tests/tsconfig.json",
 		"clean": "rimraf dist",
+		"deploy": "pnpm run deploy:asset-worker",
+		"deploy:asset-worker": "CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN=$WORKERS_NEW_CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN wrangler versions upload --experimental-versions -c asset-worker/wrangler.toml",
 		"dev": "pnpm run clean && concurrently -n bundle:asset-worker,bundle:router-worker -c blue,magenta \"pnpm run bundle:asset-worker --watch\" \"pnpm run bundle:router-worker --watch\"",
 		"test": "vitest",
 		"test:ci": "pnpm run test run"