diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index de25842..84a06c0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ target/
 **/*.rs.bk
 vendor/
 
-# Forks; become submodules per spec repo topology
-cosmic-comp/
-cosmic-session/
+# The two forks used to be listed here, ignored until they had somewhere to
+# live. They are submodules now -- see .gitmodules -- so ignoring them would
+# only hide the commit each one is pinned to.
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63a795a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[submodule "cosmic-comp"]
+	path = cosmic-comp
+	url = git@github.com:outbackdingo/hyprcosmic-comp.git
+[submodule "cosmic-session"]
+	path = cosmic-session
+	url = git@github.com:outbackdingo/hyprcosmic-session.git
diff --git a/cosmic-comp b/cosmic-comp
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..139a1de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cosmic-comp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 139a1de4e84e76a9e02f93b54d37e0133d2ae390
diff --git a/cosmic-session b/cosmic-session
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..8ff1e72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cosmic-session
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 8ff1e72d3e3943eaf07ec8f546ffac3ba740ac74