diff --git a/.changeset/clever-bees-happen.md b/.changeset/clever-bees-happen.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..90e346e46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/clever-bees-happen.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+'@verdaccio/types': patch
+'@verdaccio/proxy': patch
+---
+
+chore: move agent_options to config
diff --git a/packages/core/types/src/configuration.ts b/packages/core/types/src/configuration.ts
index 3f303e521..8c2c48bd1 100644
--- a/packages/core/types/src/configuration.ts
+++ b/packages/core/types/src/configuration.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+import { AgentOptions as HttpAgentOptions } from 'node:http';
+import { AgentOptions as HttpsAgentOptions } from 'node:https';
+
 import { PackageAccess, PackageList } from '@verdaccio/types/src/manifest';
 
 export type TypeToken = 'Bearer' | 'Basic';
@@ -47,6 +50,8 @@ export interface Headers {
   [key: string]: string;
 }
 
+export type AgentOptionsConf = HttpAgentOptions | HttpsAgentOptions;
+
 export interface UpLinkTokenConf {
   type: TypeToken;
   token?: string;
@@ -64,6 +69,7 @@ export interface UpLinkConf {
   headers?: Headers;
   auth?: UpLinkTokenConf;
   strict_ssl?: boolean | void;
+  agent_options?: AgentOptionsConf;
   _autogenerated?: boolean;
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/proxy/src/agent.ts b/packages/proxy/src/agent.ts
index 0fa2a300d..225f12a7c 100644
--- a/packages/proxy/src/agent.ts
+++ b/packages/proxy/src/agent.ts
@@ -1,21 +1,17 @@
 import { Agents } from 'got-cjs';
 import { HttpProxyAgent, HttpsProxyAgent } from 'hpagent';
-import { Agent as HttpAgent, AgentOptions as HttpAgentOptions } from 'http';
-import { Agent as HttpsAgent, AgentOptions as HttpsAgentOptions } from 'https';
+import { Agent as HttpAgent } from 'http';
+import { Agent as HttpsAgent } from 'https';
 import { URL } from 'url';
 
-export type AgentOptionsConf = HttpAgentOptions | HttpsAgentOptions;
+import { AgentOptionsConf } from '@verdaccio/types';
 
 class CustomAgents {
   private url: string;
   private proxy: string | undefined;
-  private agentOptions: HttpAgentOptions | HttpsAgentOptions;
+  private agentOptions: AgentOptionsConf;
   private agent: Agents;
-  public constructor(
-    url: string,
-    proxy: string | undefined,
-    agentOptions: HttpAgentOptions | HttpsAgentOptions
-  ) {
+  public constructor(url: string, proxy: string | undefined, agentOptions: AgentOptionsConf) {
     this.proxy = proxy;
     this.url = url;
     this.agentOptions = agentOptions;
diff --git a/packages/proxy/src/proxy.ts b/packages/proxy/src/proxy.ts
index 9da818131..1ab72767f 100644
--- a/packages/proxy/src/proxy.ts
+++ b/packages/proxy/src/proxy.ts
@@ -22,11 +22,10 @@ import {
   errorUtils,
   searchUtils,
 } from '@verdaccio/core';
-import { Manifest } from '@verdaccio/types';
-import { Config, Logger, UpLinkConf } from '@verdaccio/types';
+import { AgentOptionsConf, Config, Logger, Manifest, UpLinkConf } from '@verdaccio/types';
 import { buildToken } from '@verdaccio/utils';
 
-import CustomAgents, { AgentOptionsConf } from './agent';
+import CustomAgents from './agent';
 import { parseInterval } from './proxy-utils';
 
 const debug = buildDebug('verdaccio:proxy');