diff --git a/standards/Tighten/ruleset.xml b/standards/Tighten/ruleset.xml
index ab4635c..cbabfe7 100644
--- a/standards/Tighten/ruleset.xml
+++ b/standards/Tighten/ruleset.xml
@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@
     <description>Tighten PHP CS rules for Laravel</description>
 
     <!-- Ignore normal Laravel files and folders -->
+    <!-- Dots are escaped because PHPCS converts these patterns to regex by replacing only `*` with `.*`, leaving `.` as the any-char metachar -->
     <exclude-pattern>*/cache/*</exclude-pattern>
-    <exclude-pattern>*/*.js</exclude-pattern>
-    <exclude-pattern>*/*.css</exclude-pattern>
-    <exclude-pattern>*/*.xml</exclude-pattern>
-    <exclude-pattern>*/*.blade.php</exclude-pattern>
-    <exclude-pattern>*/autoload.php</exclude-pattern>
+    <exclude-pattern>*/*\.js</exclude-pattern>
+    <exclude-pattern>*/*\.css</exclude-pattern>
+    <exclude-pattern>*/*\.xml</exclude-pattern>
+    <exclude-pattern>*/*\.blade\.php</exclude-pattern>
+    <exclude-pattern>*/autoload\.php</exclude-pattern>
     <exclude-pattern>*/storage/*</exclude-pattern>
     <exclude-pattern>*/docs/*</exclude-pattern>
     <exclude-pattern>*/vendor/*</exclude-pattern>
diff --git a/tests/Feature/LintCommandTest.php b/tests/Feature/LintCommandTest.php
index aad73ae..5b19399 100755
--- a/tests/Feature/LintCommandTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/LintCommandTest.php
@@ -82,6 +82,22 @@
     expect($statusCode)->toBe(0);
 });
 
+it('lints with PHP_CodeSniffer respecting ruleset exclude-patterns', function () {
+    [$statusCode, $output] = run('lint', [
+        'path' => base_path('tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions'),
+        '--using' => 'phpcs',
+    ]);
+
+    expect($statusCode)->toBe(1)
+        ->and($output)
+        ->toContain('Linting using PHP_CodeSniffer')
+        ->toContain('Filename doesn\'t match class name')
+        ->toContain('WrongName')
+        ->toContain('NarrowingFileMustBeLinted')
+        ->not->toContain('AutoloadShouldNotBeLinted')
+        ->not->toContain('BladeShouldNotBeLinted');
+});
+
 it('lints with PHP CS Fixer', function () {
     [$statusCode, $output] = run('lint', [
         'path' => base_path('tests/Fixtures/PhpCsFixerFixableIssues'),
diff --git a/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/ExampleClass.php b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/ExampleClass.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8d53ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/ExampleClass.php
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?php
+
+class WrongName
+{
+}
diff --git a/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/Excluded.blade.php b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/Excluded.blade.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f6e0b39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/Excluded.blade.php
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?php
+
+class BladeShouldNotBeLinted
+{
+}
diff --git a/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/autoload-php.php b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/autoload-php.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c2be05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/autoload-php.php
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?php
+
+class NarrowingFileMustBeLinted
+{
+}
diff --git a/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/autoload.php b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/autoload.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55d5431
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/autoload.php
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?php
+
+class AutoloadShouldNotBeLinted
+{
+}
diff --git a/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/excluded.css b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/excluded.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d130df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/excluded.css
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.foo { color: red; }
diff --git a/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/excluded.js b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/excluded.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..943c458
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/excluded.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+const x = 1;
diff --git a/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/excluded.xml b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/excluded.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..37ae932
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Fixtures/PhpCodeSnifferRulesetExclusions/excluded.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<root/>