diff --git a/docker/ai-delegate/Dockerfile b/docker/ai-delegate/Dockerfile
index c070162c4b25dfdc822f77373c990d24873ee54f..ec885b63911c9b6208488c98cf61ae72d0596b80 100644
--- a/docker/ai-delegate/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/ai-delegate/Dockerfile
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ ENV PORT=3000
 
 EXPOSE 3000
 
-# Health check
+# Health check (use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost to avoid IPv6 resolution issues in Alpine)
 HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=3s --start-period=5s --retries=3 \
-  CMD wget --no-verbose --tries=1 --spider http://localhost:3000/health || exit 1
+  CMD wget --no-verbose --tries=1 --spider http://127.0.0.1:3000/health || exit 1
 
 CMD ["node", "server.js"]