diff --git a/airbyte-workers/build.gradle b/airbyte-workers/build.gradle
index 335780abca57b..55fc1d59f8d9d 100644
--- a/airbyte-workers/build.gradle
+++ b/airbyte-workers/build.gradle
@@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ task generateWellKnownTypes() {
 
 tasks.named("buildDockerImage") {
     dependsOn copyGeneratedTar
+}
+
+// Ideally, we would have buildDockerImage depend on generateWellKnownTypes
+// but some of our actions use copyGeneratedTar as the "set up the docker build context" task
+// so we'll just add it here.
+tasks.named("copyGeneratedTar") {
     dependsOn generateWellKnownTypes
 }