chore: ignore all of .claude and .agents except skills#1185
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Replace the single .claude/settings.local.json ignore with a broad ignore-all-except-skills policy so only the shared skills (and the .agents symlink) are tracked, while everything else under .claude/ and .agents/ stays local. Uses /* + negation so git still descends into the dirs and honors the re-include. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary of changes
Follow-up to the skill-sharing change. The
.gitignoreonly kept.claude/settings.local.jsonout of git, leaving the rest of.claude/(and all of.agents/) tracked. This switches to an ignore-everything-except-skills policy: only.claude/skills/and the.agents/skillssymlink are tracked; anything else either tool writes under those dirs stays local.The pattern matters —
.claude/(trailing slash) excludes the directory itself so git never descends and a negation can't re-include anything. Using/*excludes only the contents, so!.claude/skillsre-includes the folder. The.agents/skillsnegation has no trailing slash because it's a symlink, not a real directory.Verified with
git check-ignore: the skill + symlink stay tracked, any other path under.claude//.agents/is ignored.Docs
No docs impact — tooling/config only.