diff --git a/modules/lang/data/packages.el b/modules/lang/data/packages.el
index a8ccfae9e..dfe07cfe7 100644
--- a/modules/lang/data/packages.el
+++ b/modules/lang/data/packages.el
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 (package! yaml-mode)
 (package! csv-mode)
 (package! dhall-mode)
+(package! protobuf-mode)
diff --git a/modules/lang/protobuf/autoload.el b/modules/lang/protobuf/autoload.el
deleted file mode 100644
index 850f7c800..000000000
--- a/modules/lang/protobuf/autoload.el
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-;;; tools/protobuf/autoload.el -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
-
-;;;###autoload
-(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.proto\\'" . protobuf-mode))
diff --git a/modules/lang/protobuf/packages.el b/modules/lang/protobuf/packages.el
deleted file mode 100644
index 445c6ecd8..000000000
--- a/modules/lang/protobuf/packages.el
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-;; -*- no-byte-compile: t; -*-
-;;; tools/protobuf/packages.el
-
-(package! protobuf-mode)