diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3dcfa8f..1ebd437 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file, per [the Ke
 - `list_service_versions` MCP tool — list the PHP, database, and web server versions available to `create_site`, flagging which are already installed versus downloaded on demand (props [@ivanlopez](https://github.com/ivanlopez) via [#80](https://github.com/10up/localwp-agent-tools/pull/80)).
 - `site_status` now reports a `creationError` when a site created with `create_site` failed during provisioning (props [@ivanlopez](https://github.com/ivanlopez) via [#80](https://github.com/10up/localwp-agent-tools/pull/80)).
 
+### Fixed
+
+- The add-on no longer adds each agent's context file (`CLAUDE.md`, `.cursorrules`, `.windsurfrules`) to the project's `.gitignore`. Those files are human-authored and usually committed; the add-on only writes a marked section into them, so ignoring them is misleading and does nothing for a file that is already tracked. Only the machine-generated MCP config files stay ignored (props [@claytoncollie](https://github.com/claytoncollie)).
+
 ## [0.2.1] - 2026-03-19
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/src/main.ts b/src/main.ts
index 6cb129c..d206806 100644
--- a/src/main.ts
+++ b/src/main.ts
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ interface AgentTargetConfig {
 	mcpConfigTopLevelKey: string;
 	/** Path to project context/instructions file, relative to project dir */
 	contextFilePath: string;
-	/** Extra entries to add to .gitignore */
+	/** Machine-generated config files to add to .gitignore (never the human-authored context file) */
 	gitignoreEntries: string[];
 }
 
@@ -55,21 +55,21 @@ const AGENT_TARGETS: Record<AgentTarget, AgentTargetConfig> = {
 		mcpConfigPath: '.mcp.json',
 		mcpConfigTopLevelKey: 'mcpServers',
 		contextFilePath: 'CLAUDE.md',
-		gitignoreEntries: ['.mcp.json', 'CLAUDE.md'],
+		gitignoreEntries: ['.mcp.json'],
 	},
 	cursor: {
 		label: 'Cursor',
 		mcpConfigPath: path.join('.cursor', 'mcp.json'),
 		mcpConfigTopLevelKey: 'mcpServers',
 		contextFilePath: '.cursorrules',
-		gitignoreEntries: ['.cursorrules'],
+		gitignoreEntries: [],
 	},
 	windsurf: {
 		label: 'Windsurf',
 		mcpConfigPath: path.join('.windsurf', 'mcp.json'),
 		mcpConfigTopLevelKey: 'mcpServers',
 		contextFilePath: '.windsurfrules',
-		gitignoreEntries: ['.windsurfrules'],
+		gitignoreEntries: [],
 	},
 	vscode: {
 		label: 'VS Code Copilot',