In an era where every editor and IDE is sprouting AI assistants, the working directory of a modern developer has quietly become cluttered with a fascinating new category of artifacts: AI sidecar files. Think .cursor/, .aider/, .continue/, CLAUDE.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md, .windsurfrules, and the ever-growing zoo of tool-specific config and history files. Batyan45/hide-ai-files tackles a small but genuinely annoying problem: keeping those out of sight when you don't want them cluttering your file tree, diffs, or pull requests.

The repo appears to be a focused utility for managing the visibility of these AI-generated or AI-related files, likely by automating .gitignore entries, editor exclude patterns (VS Code's files.exclude), or both. The name is delightfully literal — it does what it says on the tin.

Why is this interesting? A few reasons:

• It scratches a real itch. Anyone juggling multiple AI tools knows the awkwardness of seeing teammates' Cursor rules or your own personal Claude memory accidentally land in a PR.
• It's a sign of the times. Tooling that exists around AI tooling — meta-utilities — is an emerging niche worth watching.
• It's small and focused. Zero-star repos like this often turn into one-file gems that solve a problem better than a heavyweight extension would.

Who would benefit? Polyglot AI users running two or three assistants concurrently; team leads who want to standardize what gets committed; and anyone tired of git status noise from tools that scatter dotfiles like confetti. It would also be a handy reference for someone writing their own dotfile-hygiene script.

Worth a quick clone to see whether the approach matches your workflow — and to give the author a star if it does.