diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f5f2ba69f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+node_modules/
+*.js
diff --git a/.npmignore b/.npmignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cf96fa003
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.npmignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+.npmignore
+*.coffee
diff --git a/Gruntfile.coffee b/Gruntfile.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8952ec6c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Gruntfile.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+module.exports = (grunt) ->
+  grunt.initConfig
+    pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json')
+
+    coffee:
+      glob_to_multiple:
+        expand: true
+        cwd: 'src'
+        src: ['*.coffee']
+        dest: 'lib'
+        ext: '.js'
+
+  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-coffee')
+  grunt.registerTask('default', ['coffee'])
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 36e309209..646be5240 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
 # apm - Atom Package Manager
 
 Discover and install Atom packages.
+
+## Installing
+
+```
+node install -g https://github.com/atom/apm.git
+```
+
+## Building
+  * Clone the repository
+  * Run `npm install`
+  * Run `grunt` to compile the CoffeeScript code
diff --git a/bin/apm b/bin/apm
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..888c44fb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/apm
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+require('../lib/apm-cli').run();
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fcdb711ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "name": "apm",
+  "version": "0.0.0",
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "grunt": "~0.4.1",
+    "grunt-contrib-coffee": "~0.7.0",
+    "grunt-cli": "~0.1.8"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/apm-cli.coffee b/src/apm-cli.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5f459a982
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/apm-cli.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module.exports =
+  run: ->
+    console.log 'Atom package manager'