diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5e180a751..a27739870 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ main
 /bin/
 update-ui-assets*
 /plugins/kms/assets/
-/plugins/host/assets/
+/plugins/host/assets/boundary-plugin*
 
 # Test config file
 test*.hcl
diff --git a/packages-oss.yml b/packages-oss.yml
index 012bd79bc..c5be83d7b 100644
--- a/packages-oss.yml
+++ b/packages-oss.yml
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ build-command: VERSION_PKG_PATH=github.com/hashicorp/boundary/version;
       cd $ORIG_PATH;
     done;
     cd $ORIG_PATH/plugins/$PLUGIN_TYPE/assets;
-    for CURR_PLUGIN in $(ls); do
+    for CURR_PLUGIN in $(ls boundary-plugin*); do
       gzip -9 $CURR_PLUGIN;
     done;
     cd $ORIG_PATH;
diff --git a/plugins/host/assets/README.md b/plugins/host/assets/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..89b31ac58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/host/assets/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+This directory contains assets for host plugins. This file in particular exists
+so that the Go embed package does not throw errors when importing this module
+outside of the main tree.
diff --git a/scripts/build.sh b/scripts/build.sh
index edd91e553..abf3d0308 100755
--- a/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/build.sh
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ for PLUGIN_TYPE in host; do
         cd $ORIG_PATH;
     done;
     cd $ORIG_PATH/plugins/$PLUGIN_TYPE/assets;
-    for CURR_PLUGIN in $(ls); do
+    for CURR_PLUGIN in $(ls boundary-plugin*); do
         gzip -f -9 $CURR_PLUGIN;
     done;
     cd $ORIG_PATH;