diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 13c432e..0e985d3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 docs/
-doc/
\ No newline at end of file
+doc/
+__pycache__/
+*.pyc
+*.exe
+research-output/
diff --git a/gitlink-cli.exe b/gitlink-cli.exe
deleted file mode 100644
index 5cfe99c..0000000
Binary files a/gitlink-cli.exe and /dev/null differ