diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index f112e465..61d7d3a4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ jobs:
           PATTERNS: projects/**/package.yml
       - name: process diff
         id: process-diff
+        env:
+          PKGX_PANTRY_PATH: ${{ github.workspace }}
         run: |
           if [ -n "${{ steps.get-diff.outputs.diff }}" ]; then
             for x in ${{ steps.get-diff.outputs.diff }}; do
diff --git a/projects/crates.io/wordl/add-version.patch b/projects/crates.io/wordl/add-version.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..768f5685
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/crates.io/wordl/add-version.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
+index f21aebd..f7f8410 100644
+--- a/src/main.rs
++++ b/src/main.rs
+@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ pub mod wordle;
+ 
+ #[tokio::main]
+ async fn main() -> color_eyre::Result<()> {
++    if std::env::args().any(|arg| arg == "--version" || arg == "-V") {
++        println!("wordl {}", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"));
++        return Ok(());
++    }
+     color_eyre::install()?;
+     let result = run().await;
+     result?;
diff --git a/projects/crates.io/wordl/package.yml b/projects/crates.io/wordl/package.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f95f4dac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/crates.io/wordl/package.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+distributable:
+  url: https://github.com/palerdot/wordl-rs/archive/refs/tags/v{{ version }}.tar.gz
+  strip-components: 1
+
+provides:
+  - bin/wordl
+
+versions:
+  github: palerdot/wordl-rs
+  strip: /v/
+
+build:
+  dependencies:
+    rust-lang.org: '>=1.56'
+    rust-lang.org/cargo: '*'
+  script:
+    # add --version/-V to allow a simple test
+    - patch -p1 < props/add-version.patch
+    - cargo install --locked --path . --root {{prefix}}
+
+test: test "$(wordl --version)" = "wordl {{version}}"