diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a262bb9..d9f62ae 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "atom"]
-	path = atom
-	url = git@gist.github.com:9f9a4dd799ad01aa0502a09f06cbf454.git
 [submodule "modules/vcsrepo"]
 	path = modules/vcsrepo
 	url = https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-vcsrepo
diff --git a/atom b/atom
deleted file mode 160000
index 8da9687..0000000
--- a/atom
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 8da9687d8456fde6f938e16d42f9cc1878f18a0f