diff --git a/.changeset/quiet-tests-stay-home.md b/.changeset/quiet-tests-stay-home.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..71244fa84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/quiet-tests-stay-home.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+"@trigger.dev/sdk": patch
+"@trigger.dev/core": patch
+"@trigger.dev/build": patch
+---
+
+Stop shipping compiled test files in the published packages. The `*.test.ts` sources were being emitted into `dist`, adding dead weight to every install and leaving modules that `require("vitest")` (not a dependency) inside the tarball, which tripped tooling that walks every file in a package.
diff --git a/packages/build/package.json b/packages/build/package.json
index f73abfbdc..70c6b8ef0 100644
--- a/packages/build/package.json
+++ b/packages/build/package.json
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
   ],
   "tshy": {
     "selfLink": false,
+    "exclude": [
+      "src/**/*.test.ts"
+    ],
     "main": true,
     "module": true,
     "project": "./tsconfig.src.json",
diff --git a/packages/core/package.json b/packages/core/package.json
index 64108f715..9c9af0e5c 100644
--- a/packages/core/package.json
+++ b/packages/core/package.json
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
   ],
   "tshy": {
     "selfLink": false,
+    "exclude": [
+      "src/**/*.test.ts"
+    ],
     "main": true,
     "module": true,
     "project": "./tsconfig.src.json",
diff --git a/packages/trigger-sdk/package.json b/packages/trigger-sdk/package.json
index 57e8d3aba..c2cd0e1fd 100644
--- a/packages/trigger-sdk/package.json
+++ b/packages/trigger-sdk/package.json
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
   ],
   "tshy": {
     "selfLink": false,
+    "exclude": [
+      "src/**/*.test.ts"
+    ],
     "main": true,
     "module": true,
     "project": "./tsconfig.build.json",