diff --git a/.github/workflows/rust.yml b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fbeac10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# build and publish rust crate
+name: Rust
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ main ]
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Rust
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions-rust-lang/setup-rust-toolchain@v1
+        with:
+            toolchain: stable
+            override: true
+      - uses: katyo/publish-crates@v2
+        with:
+            registry-token: ${{ secrets.CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
+            path: crates/openapi-client
+            check-repo: true
+            ignore-unpublished-changes: true
+            dry-run: true
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 37b5772..47b2468 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,6 @@ dist/
 /exports
 www/venv
 www/.cache
+
+Cargo.lock
+target
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..723ba4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[workspace]
+members = ["crates/openapi-client"]
+resolver = "2"
+edition = "2021"
diff --git a/crates/openapi-client/Cargo.toml b/crates/openapi-client/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f0ad9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/openapi-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+[package]
+name = "process-compose-openapi-client"
+version = "1.46.0"
+description = "OpenAPI client for Process Compose"
+license = "Apache-2.0"
+edition = "2021"
+include = [
+  "src/**",
+  "Cargo.toml",
+  "build.rs",
+  "../../src/docs/swagger.json",
+  "../../README.md",
+]
+
+[lib]
+crate-type = ["rlib"]
+
+[dependencies]
+progenitor-client = { version = "0.9" }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = [
+  "json",
+  "stream",
+] }
+serde = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, features = ["derive"] }
+serde_json = { version = "1.0", default-features = false }
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+tokio = { version = "1.41", features = ["macros"] }
+
+[build-dependencies]
+progenitor = { version = "0.9" }
+syn = { version = "2.0.85" }
+prettyplease = { version = "0.2.25" }
+serde_json = { version = "1.0", default-features = false }
diff --git a/crates/openapi-client/build.rs b/crates/openapi-client/build.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..90851ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/openapi-client/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+fn main() {
+    let spec = if option_env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR").is_some()
+        && option_env!("CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKEN").is_some()
+    {
+        println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../src/docs/swagger.json");
+        std::fs::read_to_string("../../../src/docs/swagger.json").unwrap()
+    } else {
+        println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../src/docs/swagger.json");
+        std::fs::read_to_string("../../src/docs/swagger.json").unwrap()
+    };
+    let spec = serde_json::from_str(&spec).unwrap();
+    let mut generator = progenitor::Generator::default();
+    let tokens = generator.generate_tokens(&spec).unwrap();
+    let ast = syn::parse2(tokens).unwrap();
+    let content = prettyplease::unparse(&ast);
+    let mut out_file = std::path::Path::new(&std::env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap()).to_path_buf();
+    out_file.push("lib.rs");
+    std::fs::write(out_file, content).unwrap();
+}
diff --git a/crates/openapi-client/src/lib.rs b/crates/openapi-client/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f7072f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/openapi-client/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/lib.rs"));
diff --git a/crates/openapi-client/tests/mod.rs b/crates/openapi-client/tests/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7618798
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/openapi-client/tests/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+use process_compose_openapi_client;
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn compiles_but_errors_with_bad_url() {
+    let client = process_compose_openapi_client::Client::new("locahost:8080");
+    match client.get_process_info("process-compose").await {
+        Ok(response) => {
+            let _name = &response.name;
+            unreachable!("errors on bad url");
+        }
+        Err(_) => {}
+    }
+}
diff --git a/rust-toolchain.toml b/rust-toolchain.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1de01fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust-toolchain.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[toolchain]
+channel = "1.81.0"