diff --git a/RenderWorker/.gitignore b/RenderWorker/.gitignore
index 4d4cd45..1914a1a 100644
--- a/RenderWorker/.gitignore
+++ b/RenderWorker/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,8 @@ bin/
 obj/
 publish/
 *.user
+
+# Published packages — rebuildable from any commit with scripts/publish.ps1,
+# and the version stamp (e.g. 1.1.0+a4f8226) already traces a deployed exe
+# back to its source. Keeping ~29 MB per publish in history buys nothing.
+VFXReviewWorker_*.zip
diff --git a/RenderWorker/VFXReviewWorker_20260813.zip b/RenderWorker/VFXReviewWorker_20260813.zip
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fe5f07..0000000
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