diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bf58b06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+    "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
+        "source.organizeImports": "explicit"
+    },
+    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
+    "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
+    "[python]": {
+        "diffEditor.ignoreTrimWhitespace": false,
+        "gitlens.codeLens.symbolScopes": [
+            "!Module"
+        ],
+        "editor.formatOnType": false,
+        "editor.wordBasedSuggestions": "off",
+        "editor.defaultFormatter": "ms-python.black-formatter"
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Pipfile b/Pipfile
index 09a3233..5a20030 100644
--- a/Pipfile
+++ b/Pipfile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ name = "pypi"
 [packages]
 gotify = "*"
 click = "*"
+toml = "*"
 
 [dev-packages]
 
diff --git a/goat_monitor.py b/goat_monitor.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..86ad1ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/goat_monitor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# %% imports
+import subprocess
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import List
+
+import click
+import gotify
+import toml
+
+__version__ = "v0.0.0"
+
+
+# %% commands
+
+
+@click.command()
+@click.pass_context
+# @click.option(
+#     "--config",
+#     default="~/.config/goat_monitor.toml",
+#     type=click.Path(exists=False, writable=True, path_type=Path),
+#     help="Specify a .toml configuration file location",
+# )
+# def init(config: Path):
+#     with open(config, "w") as f:
+#         cfg_data = dict()
+#         toml.dump(cfg_data, f)
+def create_config(ctx):
+    print("init called")
+    print(ctx)
+
+
+@click.group(invoke_without_command=True)
+@click.argument("command", nargs=-1, required=False, type=str)
+@click.option(
+    "--config",
+    default="~/.config/goat_monitor.toml",
+    type=click.Path(path_type=Path),
+    help="Use a .toml configuration file",
+)
+@click.option("--init", is_flag=True, default=False, help="Create a configuration file")
+@click.pass_context
+def wrap(ctx, command: List[str], config: Path, init: bool):  # , config: Path):
+    """Wrap an arbitrary command with gotify notifications"""
+
+    if init:
+        print("calling init")
+        create_config(command)
+    else:
+        # run the command
+        result = subprocess.run(
+            command,
+            shell=True,
+            stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
+            stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+            encoding="utf-8",
+        )
+        # TODO: print lines real time as the subprocess runs
+        print(result.stdout, end="")
+
+        return result.returncode
+
+
+# %% main
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    wrap()
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19a859b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[tool.black]
+line-length = 120
+exclude = '''
+/(
+    \.eggs
+  | \.git
+  | \.hg
+  | \.mypy_cache
+  | \.tox
+  | \.venv
+  | \.vscode
+  | _build
+  | buck-out
+  | build
+  | dist
+)/
+'''
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ba7503
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[flake8]
+exclude = **/*__init__.py,.venv/*,tox/*,build/*,dist/*
+ignore = C901,E203,E731,W503
+max-line-length = 120
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29