diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 35900e48..c4a01662 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# DECISIVE: GitHub excludes examples/ from language stats by default; re-include it.
+examples/** linguist-vendored=false linguist-generated=false linguist-documentation=false
 # ==============================================================================
 # 1. FORCE EXPLICIT LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION
 # Use this if GitHub misidentifies certain file types.