diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f1f151
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# prevent line-based 3-way merge on pixi.lock
+pixi.lock merge=binary linguist-language=YAML linguist-generated=true
+
+# Exclude scripts directory from language stats
+scripts/** linguist-vendored=true
+
+# Mark Jupyter notebooks as documentation instead of source code
+*.ipynb linguist-documentation=true
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 81f3772..3ef5ac2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 build/
 /data/
 /output/
+/.vscode/
+/.pixi/