diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5c50d1d01..fbd4b460f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -36,3 +36,4 @@
 /libsemigroups/
 /src/pkgconfig.h.in
 /src/semigroups-config.hpp
+test-output.w
diff --git a/tst/workspaces/load-workspace.tst b/tst/workspaces/load-workspace.tst
index 361d0c57d..ff07e6ca4 100644
--- a/tst/workspaces/load-workspace.tst
+++ b/tst/workspaces/load-workspace.tst
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 ##
 #############################################################################
 
-# Set up testing environment
+# DO NOT USE LOCAL VARIABLES @local in this file!
 
-#@local D, DD, id, idd, xx
+# Set up testing environment
 gap> START_TEST("Semigroups package: workspaces/load-workspace.tst");
 gap> SEMIGROUPS.StartTest();
 
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ gap> AsDigraph(b);
 gap> CanonicalBlocks(b);
 <blocks: [ 1* ], [ 2*, 3* ], [ 4*, 5*, 6*, 7* ], [ 8, 9, 10 ]>
 
-#
+# No point unbinding local variables, since this will only ever be run in a
+# workspace
 gap> SEMIGROUPS.StopTest();
 gap> STOP_TEST("Semigroups package: workspaces/load-workspace.tst");
diff --git a/tst/workspaces/save-workspace.tst b/tst/workspaces/save-workspace.tst
index 64bed964c..7c11dfad8 100644
--- a/tst/workspaces/save-workspace.tst
+++ b/tst/workspaces/save-workspace.tst
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@
 ##
 #############################################################################
 
+# DO NOT USE LOCAL VARIABLES @local in this file!
+
 # Set up testing environment
 
-#@local D, DD, S, T, U, b, cong, id, idd, x, xx, y
 gap> START_TEST("Semigroups package: workspaces/save-workspace.tst");
 gap> SetInfoLevel(InfoDebug, 0);
 gap> LoadPackage("semigroups", false);;
@@ -146,6 +147,20 @@ gap> SaveWorkspace(Concatenation(SEMIGROUPS.PackageDir,
 >                                "/tst/workspaces/test-output.w"));
 true
 
+# Unbind local variables, auto-generated by etc/tst-unbind-local-vars.py
+gap> Unbind(D);
+gap> Unbind(DD);
+gap> Unbind(S);
+gap> Unbind(T);
+gap> Unbind(U);
+gap> Unbind(b);
+gap> Unbind(cong);
+gap> Unbind(id);
+gap> Unbind(idd);
+gap> Unbind(x);
+gap> Unbind(xx);
+gap> Unbind(y);
+
 #
 gap> SEMIGROUPS.StopTest();
 gap> STOP_TEST("Semigroups package: workspaces/save-workspace.tst");