diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 48a363a..0abe82c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -50,4 +50,12 @@ logs/
 
 # --- UPX / packing artifacts ---
 *.upx
-packed/
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+packed/
+
+# --- Release staging ---
+# `release/` is a scratch dir we copy the built EXE into before
+# pushing it to Gitea's release page. We gitignore the whole dir
+# (including the *named* binaries) so we never accidentally commit
+# a 10 MB blob — the canonical artifact lives on Gitea, not in
+# the repo. (AGENTS.md §56 "可以接受 release 里没二进制".)
+/release/
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