diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5e072fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+*.gem
+*.rbc
+/.config
+/coverage/
+/InstalledFiles
+/pkg/
+/spec/reports/
+/spec/examples.txt
+/test/tmp/
+/test/version_tmp/
+/tmp/
+
+# Used by dotenv library to load environment variables.
+# .env
+
+# Ignore Byebug command history file.
+.byebug_history
+
+## Specific to RubyMotion:
+.dat*
+.repl_history
+build/
+*.bridgesupport
+build-iPhoneOS/
+build-iPhoneSimulator/
+
+## Specific to RubyMotion (use of CocoaPods):
+#
+# We recommend against adding the Pods directory to your .gitignore. However
+# you should judge for yourself, the pros and cons are mentioned at:
+# https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/using-cocoapods.html#should-i-check-the-pods-directory-into-source-control
+#
+# vendor/Pods/
+
+## Documentation cache and generated files:
+/.yardoc/
+/_yardoc/
+/doc/
+/rdoc/
+
+## Environment normalization:
+/.bundle/
+/vendor/bundle
+/lib/bundler/man/
+
+# for a library or gem, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
+# intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
+Gemfile.lock
+.ruby-version
+.ruby-gemset
+
+# unless supporting rvm < 1.11.0 or doing something fancy, ignore this:
+.rvmrc
+
+# Used by RuboCop. Remote config files pulled in from inherit_from directive.
+# .rubocop-https?--*
diff --git a/.rubocop.yml b/.rubocop.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..822cddd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.rubocop.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+plugins:
+  - rubocop-performance
+  - rubocop-rake
+  - rubocop-minitest
+
+AllCops:
+  NewCops: enable
+
+Layout/LineLength:
+  Max: 140
+
+Metrics/BlockLength:
+  Exclude:
+    - 'spec/**/*.rb'
+
+Layout/ArgumentAlignment:
+  EnforcedStyle: with_fixed_indentation
+
+Bundler/OrderedGems:
+  TreatCommentsAsGroupSeparators: true
+
+Layout/MultilineMethodCallIndentation:
+  EnforcedStyle: indented
+
+Layout/ArrayAlignment:
+  EnforcedStyle: with_fixed_indentation
+
+Style/Documentation:
+  Enabled: false
+
+Style/FrozenStringLiteralComment:
+  Enabled: true
+  SafeAutoCorrect: true
+
+Style/TrailingCommaInArguments:
+  EnforcedStyleForMultiline: comma
+
+Style/TrailingCommaInArrayLiteral:
+  EnforcedStyleForMultiline: comma
+
+Style/TrailingCommaInHashLiteral:
+  EnforcedStyleForMultiline: comma
+
+Style/HashSyntax:
+  Enabled: true
+  EnforcedShorthandSyntax: always
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..91331ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+require 'rake'
+require 'minitest/test_task'
+require 'bundler/gem_tasks'
+require 'rubocop/rake_task'
+
+RuboCop::RakeTask.new
+
+Minitest::TestTask.create(:test) do |task|
+  task.libs << 'lib'
+  task.libs << 'test'
+  task.test_globs = ['test/*/**/*.rb']
+  task.warning = true
+end
+
+task default: %i[rubocop test]
diff --git a/leopard.gemspec b/leopard.gemspec
index 5fda928..4205f41 100644
--- a/leopard.gemspec
+++ b/leopard.gemspec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.email = ['bougyman@users.noreply.github.com']
 
   spec.summary = 'A server to supervise concurrent NATS ServiceApi workers.'
-  spec.description = 'Leopard is a puma-like server for managing concurrent NATS ServiceApi endpoint workers' # rubocop:disable Layout/LineLength
+  spec.description = 'Leopard is a puma-like server for managing concurrent NATS ServiceApi endpoint workers'
   spec.homepage = 'https://github.com/rubyists/leopard'
   spec.license = 'MIT'
   spec.required_ruby_version = '>= 3.3.0'
diff --git a/lib/leopard/version.rb b/lib/leopard/version.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be1c23a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/leopard/version.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+module Rubyists
+  module Leopard
+    # x-release-please-start-version
+    VERSION = '0.1.0'
+    # x-release-please-end
+  end
+end