diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 21110aa0..4a54c103 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -46,3 +46,8 @@ __pycache__/
 # --- session checkpoint 2026-08-21: agent-shell session transcripts can
 # capture raw env dumps (secrets) -- never checked in ---
 .agent-shell/
+
+# --- session checkpoint 2026-08-24: local-only wolf dashboard auth token,
+# never checked in (was committed at 90be04bd; untracked here, LAN-only
+# exposure so no history scrub, just stop tracking it) ---
+.wolf/dashboard-token
diff --git a/.wolf/dashboard-token b/.wolf/dashboard-token
deleted file mode 100644
index 05b1bb42..00000000
--- a/.wolf/dashboard-token
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-e13bbebfb9cfe2b21442fd6244933120eac46ea3e2b8995e191b2ddae0ae8dec