diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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+#how the project is built
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61.0"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+#project's metadata
+[project]
+name = "githelp"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "example CLI using Click."
+authors = [{ name = "Jimmy Zhang", email = "jimmy_zhang@uri.edu" }]
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+dependencies = ["click>=8.1"]
+
+#this creates the 'githelp' command
+[project.scripts]
+githelp = "githelp.cli:main"
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diff --git a/src/githelp/_init_.py b/src/githelp/_init_.py
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+__all__ = ["__version__"]
+__version__ = "0.1.0"
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diff --git a/src/githelp/cli.py b/src/githelp/cli.py
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+#import the click library for the building cli interfaces
+import click
+#import the inner function that actually builds the greeting text
+#keynote ".greater" is a relative import not an absolute.
+from .greeter import make_greeting
+
+#declare the click command
+#the text in help show up in the githelp --help
+@click.command(help="Say hello from githelp.")
+#option "--name is define" and "-n" for short 
+#default= World if user didnt provide a name
+#show default flag is set to false so it doesnt display in option
+@click.option("--name", "-n", default="World", show_default=False, help="Who to greet.")
+#here there is a boolean flag pair --shout/--no-shout"
+@click.option("--shout/--no-shout", default=False, show_default=False, help="End with an exclamation mark.")
+#click auto parse the value
+def main(name: str, shout: bool) -> None:
+     #call the inner function to build the message, then print it to stdout
+    click.echo(make_greeting(name, shout))
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diff --git a/src/githelp/greeter.py b/src/githelp/greeter.py
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+def make_greeting(name, shout = False):
+    if(shout):
+        suffix = "!"
+    else:
+        suffix = "."
+    return f"Hello, {name}{suffix}"
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