diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 960559bc..a3d16184 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -79,8 +79,6 @@ build/
 .vscode/
 .idea/
 
-# Local investigation scratch: the SAM2 and edge-alignment trials the README
-# records as rejected, plus their imagery and a deploy bundle (~300 MB). Kept
-# on disk because the rejections are worth being able to re-check, out of the
-# repository because none of it is an input to the product.
+# Local investigation scratch is never repository input.
+/.codex-input/
 /.codex-artifacts/