diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
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+# Changelog for antiope-optparse-applicative
+
+## Unreleased changes
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2018 Arbor Networks
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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+
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+
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# antiope-optparse-applicative
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/antiope-optparse-applicative.cabal b/antiope-optparse-applicative.cabal
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+cabal-version:        2.2
+name:                 antiope-optparse-applicative
+version:              7.0.1
+synopsis:             Please see the README on Github at <https://github.com/arbor/antiope#readme>
+description:          Please see the README on Github at <https://github.com/arbor/antiope#readme>.
+category:             Services
+homepage:             https://github.com/arbor/antiope#readme
+bug-reports:          https://github.com/arbor/antiope/issues
+author:               Arbor Networks
+maintainer:           mayhem@arbor.net
+copyright:            Arbor Networks
+license:              MIT
+license-file:         LICENSE
+build-type:           Simple
+extra-source-files:
+    README.md
+    ChangeLog.md
+
+source-repository head
+  type: git
+  location: https://github.com/arbor/antiope
+
+library
+  hs-source-dirs:       src
+  default-extensions:   BangPatterns GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving OverloadedStrings TupleSections
+  ghc-options:          -Wall -Wcompat -Wincomplete-record-updates -Wincomplete-uni-patterns -Wredundant-constraints -msse4.2
+  default-language:     Haskell2010
+  exposed-modules:
+      Antiope.Options.Applicative
+  build-depends:
+      base                  >= 4.7          && < 5
+    , amazonka              >= 1.6
+    , amazonka-core         >= 1.6
+    , amazonka-s3           >= 1.6
+    , optparse-applicative  >= 0.14.3.0     && < 0.15
+    , text
+
+test-suite antiope-optparse-applicative-test
+  type:                   exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  main-is:                Spec.hs
+  hs-source-dirs:         test
+  default-extensions:     BangPatterns GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving OverloadedStrings TupleSections
+  ghc-options:            -Wall -Wcompat -Wincomplete-record-updates -Wincomplete-uni-patterns -Wredundant-constraints -msse4.2 -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N
+  default-language:       Haskell2010
+  build-depends:
+      base                  >= 4.7          && < 5
+    , aeson
+    , amazonka              >= 1.6
+    , amazonka-core         >= 1.6
+    , amazonka-s3           >= 1.6
+    , hedgehog              >= 0.5          && <0.7
+    , hspec                 >= 2.4          && <2.7
+    , hw-hspec-hedgehog     >= 0.1          && <0.3
diff --git a/src/Antiope/Options/Applicative.hs b/src/Antiope/Options/Applicative.hs
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+module Antiope.Options.Applicative
+  ( autoText
+  ) where
+
+import Network.AWS.Data.Text
+import Options.Applicative
+
+import qualified Data.Text as T
+
+autoText :: FromText a => ReadM a
+autoText = eitherReader $ fromText . T.pack
diff --git a/test/Spec.hs b/test/Spec.hs
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+{-# OPTIONS_GHC -F -pgmF hspec-discover #-}
