From 5a6ac5f8e4ddb3180ee758ecd7655738c6588421 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ptarrant <ptarrant@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:42:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: anchor .claude skill un-ignore to repo root

Previous rules un-ignored nested .claude/ dirs (e.g. md/<topic>/.claude/
harness state). Leading-slash anchoring scopes the exception to the repo
root skill only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .gitignore | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 05b2795..e074b34 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,12 +4,15 @@ pdfs/
 # Generated OCR worklist (regenerated each run)
 needs-ocr.txt
 
-# Claude Code session/harness state (but version committed skills)
-.claude/*
-!.claude/skills/
-.claude/skills/*
-!.claude/skills/research/
-!.claude/skills/research/**
+# Claude Code session/harness state — ignored everywhere (incl. nested .claude/)
+.claude/
+# ...except the committed research skill at the REPO ROOT only (leading slash)
+!/.claude/
+/.claude/*
+!/.claude/skills/
+/.claude/skills/*
+!/.claude/skills/research/
+!/.claude/skills/research/**
 
 # Python
 .venv/