diff --git a/.githooks/commit-msg b/.githooks/commit-msg
deleted file mode 100755
index fe644d4..0000000
--- a/.githooks/commit-msg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# .githooks/commit-msg
-#
-# I reject commits that violate the style rules for this project:
-#   - no em dashes (U+2014) or en dashes (U+2013)
-#   - no Oxford-comma patterns ("a, b, and c")
-#
-# One-time setup per clone: git config core.hooksPath .githooks
-
-MSGFILE="$1"
-# I normalise CRLFs before checking so Windows line endings do not cause false passes.
-MSG="$(sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\r//g' "$MSGFILE")"
-
-# I reject en-dash or em-dash characters outright.
-if [[ "$MSG" =~ –|— ]]; then
-  echo "ERROR: commit message contains an en/em dash (- or -). Use a straight hyphen '-' instead." >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-# I detect the Oxford-comma pattern "word, word, and word" heuristically.
-if echo "$MSG" | grep -Eq '[^,]+,\s*[^,]+,\s*and\s+[^,]+'; then
-  echo "ERROR: commit message appears to use an Oxford comma (\", x, and y\"). Remove it." >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/.githooks/prepare-commit-msg b/.githooks/prepare-commit-msg
deleted file mode 100755
index 8de4ab9..0000000
--- a/.githooks/prepare-commit-msg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# .githooks/prepare-commit-msg
-#
-# I strip Co-authored-by lines added by AI coding assistants.
-# This repo does not accept AI co-author credits anywhere.
-#
-# One-time setup per clone: git config core.hooksPath .githooks
-
-MSG_FILE=$1
-[ -n "$MSG_FILE" ] && [ -f "$MSG_FILE" ] || exit 0
-
-tmp="${MSG_FILE}.$$.tmp"
-awk '
-  /^Co-authored-by:/ {
-    line = tolower($0)
-    if (line ~ /cursor/ || line ~ /openai/ || line ~ /anthropic/ || line ~ /claude/ \
-        || line ~ /copilot/ || line ~ /chatgpt/ || line ~ /grok/ || line ~ /x-ai/ \
-        || line ~ /perplexity/ || line ~ /gemini/ || line ~ /github/) {
-      next
-    }
-  }
-  { print }
-' "$MSG_FILE" > "$tmp" 2>/dev/null && mv "$tmp" "$MSG_FILE" || rm -f "$tmp"
-exit 0
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ab4355a..baf706e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -40,26 +40,15 @@ Thumbs.db
 .idea/
 *.swp
 
+# Linting cache
+.ruff_cache/
+
 # Log files (but not the logs/ folder - that is committed)
 *.log
 
 # Local agent workspace - never commit
 .agents/
 
-# Reference extract folder - never commit
-extract/
-
-# Claude Code local config and rules - never commit
-.claude/
-CLAUDE.md
-
-# Cursor IDE local config - never commit
-.cursor/
-
-# Local agent instructions
-.github/AGENTS.md
-.github/copilot-instructions.md
-
 # Local-only session files - never commit, git pull must not overwrite them
 prompts/