diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 6a1da29f2..3125246e4 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -380,6 +380,12 @@ jobs:
             git add ./internal/api
             git commit --allow-empty -m '[skip ci] Built release libraries'
             git push origin $CIRCLE_BRANCH
+            git rm --cached internal/api/libwasmvm.x86_64.so 
+            git rm --cached internal/api/libwasmvm.aarch64.so
+            git rm --cached internal/api/libwasmvm.dylib
+            git add ./internal/api
+            git commit -m '[skip ci] Ignore generated artifacts'
+            git push origin $CIRCLE_BRANCH
 
   build_static_lib:
     machine:
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cc52551b4..5dcb4bbd4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 
 # no static libraries (35MB+)
 /internal/api/lib*.a
+/internal/api/lib*.so
+/internal/api/lib*.dylib
+/internal/api/libwasmvm.x86_64.so
 
 # artifacts from compile tests
 /build/
diff --git a/internal/api/libwasmvm.aarch64.so b/internal/api/libwasmvm.aarch64.so
deleted file mode 100755
index 9e952e07c..000000000
Binary files a/internal/api/libwasmvm.aarch64.so and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/internal/api/libwasmvm.dylib b/internal/api/libwasmvm.dylib
deleted file mode 100755
index 4fc144542..000000000
Binary files a/internal/api/libwasmvm.dylib and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/internal/api/libwasmvm.x86_64.so b/internal/api/libwasmvm.x86_64.so
deleted file mode 100755
index 3f88eefff..000000000
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