diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 82df1452..e14a92d3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Editor and tool files no longer tracked: `.cursor/` and `.windsurf/` rules from 2025 (superseded by `CLAUDE.md` and Nectar), a `.claude/` plan, a 2023 `.php-cs-fixer.cache`, and the unused StyleCI and Code Climate configurations (style is checked by Pint in CI, coverage by Codecov)
 
 ### Fixed
+- `pollora:make:plugin` no longer copies the template's `bin/` (its packaging script and tests) into the new plugin, as `pollora:make:theme` already did
 - A plugin that answers from `template_redirect` and includes the theme's query template itself (`include get_query_template('404')`, WooCommerce's Review Order page) printed the Blade source of the view: the `{type}_template` filters now hand back a loader that renders it while `template_redirect` runs (#419)
 - `template_redirect` ran before the application's providers had booted — WordPress is loaded from a provider's boot, the theme's providers boot after it — so a view rendered from it lacked the theme's view composers and shared data. It now runs once every provider has booted, still before routing, and `pollora_loaded` after it (#419)
 - Trackbacks answered 500: `wp-trackback.php` was required from a method, where it found no `$wp` and loaded WordPress a second time (#419)
diff --git a/src/Plugin/UI/Console/MakePluginCommand.php b/src/Plugin/UI/Console/MakePluginCommand.php
index 1ce44077..39fb88a3 100644
--- a/src/Plugin/UI/Console/MakePluginCommand.php
+++ b/src/Plugin/UI/Console/MakePluginCommand.php
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ public function handle(): int
             version: $this->option('repo-version'),
             output: $this->getOutput(),
             fileFilter: fn (object $item): bool => ! $this->shouldExcludeAssetFile($item),
+            removeDirs: ['bin'],
         );
 
         if (! $success && ! $this->scaffoldFromBundledTemplate()) {
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Plugin/MakePluginTemplateToolingTest.php b/tests/Feature/Plugin/MakePluginTemplateToolingTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9f854d5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Feature/Plugin/MakePluginTemplateToolingTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+use Pollora\Modules\Infrastructure\Services\ModuleScaffolderService;
+use Pollora\Plugin\UI\Console\MakePluginCommand;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArrayInput;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\BufferedOutput;
+
+describe('pollora:make:plugin', function (): void {
+    it('leaves the template packaging tooling in bin/ out of the new plugin', function (): void {
+        $pluginsPath = sys_get_temp_dir().'/pollora-make-plugin-'.uniqid();
+        config()->set('plugin.path', $pluginsPath);
+
+        $scaffolder = Mockery::mock(ModuleScaffolderService::class);
+        $scaffolder->shouldReceive('downloadAndScaffold')
+            ->once()
+            ->withArgs(fn (...$arguments): bool => ($arguments['removeDirs'] ?? $arguments[7] ?? null) === ['bin'])
+            ->andReturnTrue();
+        $this->app->instance(ModuleScaffolderService::class, $scaffolder);
+
+        $command = $this->app->make(MakePluginCommand::class);
+        $command->setLaravel($this->app);
+
+        $input = new ArrayInput(['name' => 'acme', '--repository' => 'pollora/plugin-default']);
+        $input->setInteractive(false);
+
+        expect($command->run($input, new BufferedOutput))->toBe(0);
+    });
+});