---
title: "gitignore"
description: "Create and maintain.gitignore files from a curated, conservative template library. Adds user-specified entries by default, or composes OS-specific (macOS, Windows, Linux) and language-specific (Node.js, Python, Java, Kot"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/gitignore
last-updated: 2026-10-12
---

# gitignore
Create and maintain.gitignore files from a curated, conservative template library. Adds user-specified entries by default, or composes OS-specific (macOS, Windows, Linux) and language-specific (Node.js, Python, Java, Kotlin, C, Go, Elixir) sections without hiding lockfiles, manifests, or other legitimately versioned files.
- Slug: gitignore
- Publisher: Florian Buetow
- Repository: https://github.com/florianbuetow/codex-plugins
- Manifest: plugins/gitignore/plugin.json
- Version: 0.1.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 4 (add, gitignore, language, os)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-09-10
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-11
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/gitignore
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What gitignore does, in the publisher's words

> Generated for Codex from the canonical source plugin. Run just update at the marketplace root to refresh it.

Create and maintain.gitignore files from a curated, conservative template library. Adds user-specified entries by default, or composes OS-specific (macOS, Windows, Linux) and language-specific (Node.js, Python, Java, Kotlin, C, Go, Elixir) sections without hiding lockfiles, manifests, or other legitimately versioned files.

Register the repository marketplace with codex plugin marketplace add., then run codex plugin add gitignore@florianbuetow-codex-plugins or install it from Florian Buetow Codex Plugins in the Plugins Directory. Invoke its workflows with $.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/florianbuetow/codex-plugins/HEAD/plugins/gitignore/README.md