diff --git a/.claude/skills b/.claude/skills
deleted file mode 160000
index 4c400ca..0000000
--- a/.claude/skills
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 4c400ca1218d73b032351bc083b40743dd9ec055
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ce93d9d..c21ea2f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ gearbox-agent/.env
 *.local.json
 .mcp.json
 
+# Claude Code per-developer state (commands/ and settings.local.json.example
+# are intentionally tracked; everything else is local-only)
+.claude/skills/
+.claude/worktrees/
+
 # Development
 .DS_Store
 *.swp