diff --git a/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json b/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
index eb3cdf4..fa22a78 100644
--- a/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
+++ b/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   },
   "metadata": {
     "description": "Multi-plugin marketplace with GitButler CLI skill and shared core utilities for Git workflows and version control",
-    "version": "1.18.0",
+    "version": "1.19.0",
     "homepage": "https://github.com/amitkot/claude-code-tools",
     "repository": {
       "type": "git",
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
       "name": "code-habits",
       "source": "./code-habits",
       "description": "Small, single-rule skills that auto-trigger on common engineering moments — file placement, task completion, claim-grounding, script duplication. One habit per skill, no procedural workflows.",
-      "version": "0.4.0",
+      "version": "0.5.0",
       "author": {
         "name": "Amit Kotlovski"
       },
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2eb96d6..35577c6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,19 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [1.19.0] - 2026-05-14
+
+### Changed
+
+#### Code Habits Plugin (0.5.0)
+- `plans-and-investigations-location` skill: add a short "Never reference gitignored paths from anywhere others will read" rule. The original skill covered *where* to put personal-process markdown but not what happens when you then cite that gitignored path from an issue, PR, commit, committed file, or shipped skill — a dangling pointer for every other reader. Fix paths: promote-to-shared or summarise-inline. Internal session surfaces (TodoWrite, live transcript) are exempted.
+- Description trigger phrase extended to cover the non-reference rule.
+- Motivating case: a session referenced `.local/plans/<slug>.md` in a GitHub issue body, pointing reviewers at a path that only existed on the author's laptop.
+
+### Technical Details
+- Marketplace: 1.18.0 -> 1.19.0
+- Code Habits plugin: 0.4.0 -> 0.5.0
+
 ## [1.18.0] - 2026-05-13
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/code-habits/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/code-habits/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index f588a87..3db4d9f 100644
--- a/code-habits/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/code-habits/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "code-habits",
   "description": "Small, single-rule skills that auto-trigger on common engineering moments — file placement, task completion, claim-grounding, script duplication. One habit per skill, no procedural workflows.",
-  "version": "0.4.0",
+  "version": "0.5.0",
   "author": {
     "name": "Amit Kotlovski",
     "url": "https://github.com/amitkot"
diff --git a/code-habits/skills/plans-and-investigations-location/SKILL.md b/code-habits/skills/plans-and-investigations-location/SKILL.md
index 0b40e00..698aba6 100644
--- a/code-habits/skills/plans-and-investigations-location/SKILL.md
+++ b/code-habits/skills/plans-and-investigations-location/SKILL.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 name: plans-and-investigations-location
-description: Use when about to write an implementation plan, investigation note, design sketch, post-mortem, or any markdown capturing personal process inside a project repo — and especially when about to save under `docs/plans/`, `docs/investigations/`, or `docs/design/`. Routes personal/in-flight work to `.local/<kind>/` (gitignored) and reserves `docs/<kind>/` for shared, team-reviewed artefacts.
-version: 0.3.0
+description: Use when about to write an implementation plan, investigation note, design sketch, post-mortem, or any markdown capturing personal process inside a project repo — and especially when about to save under `docs/plans/`, `docs/investigations/`, or `docs/design/`. Routes personal/in-flight work to `.local/<kind>/` (gitignored) and reserves `docs/<kind>/` for shared, team-reviewed artefacts. Also forbids referencing any gitignored path (`.local/` included) from anywhere other readers will see — issues, PRs, commits, committed files, skills.
+version: 0.5.0
 ---
 
 # Plans and investigations: `.local/` first, `docs/` only when shared
@@ -19,3 +19,9 @@ Default to `.local/<kind>/` for plans drafted before approval, investigation not
 Write to `docs/<kind>/` only when the user asks for a shared artefact, when promoting a reviewed plan to canonical, or for a deliverable in itself (architecture reference, runbook, post-mortem the team will read). Promote `.local/` → `docs/` as an explicit move + commit the user can see, not a quiet `git add`.
 
 `.local/` has no git history or backup — anything that becomes load-bearing (referenced across sessions, asked about by others) should graduate to `docs/`.
+
+## Never reference gitignored paths from anywhere others will read
+
+`.local/` and any other gitignored path (anything `git check-ignore` flags) exists on one machine only. Citing it from an issue, PR, commit message, committed file, or shipped skill gives every other reader a dangling pointer. Don't do it. If the content needs to be referenced, promote it to a tracked path first; if it should stay private, summarise the substance inline instead of linking.
+
+Internal session surfaces (TodoWrite, the live transcript) are fine — the bar is "will someone later read this without my filesystem?"