diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4c27c86..bd3ea54 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 __pycache__
 */*.pyc
 */__pycache__
+config.yml
+conf.d
diff --git a/config.dist.yml b/config.dist.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..618a70c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config.dist.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# gibberish here, read telethon docs for further details
+api_id: 00000000
+api_hash: 000000000000000000000000000000ff
+bot_token: 0000000000:ABCDEFGHijklmnoPQRSTUVWXYZ-v1234567
+
+# refer psycopg.connect() docs for db_spec, also this:
+# https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING
+db_spec: |
+  dbname=pgbot
+  user=pgbot
+  host=127.0.0.1
+  port=5432
+  password=somepass
+
+# list of regex tokens and regex
+response_tokens: tokens.dist.yml
+# scheduled task list
+schedule: sched.dist.yml
+
+admins:
+  - 00000000
diff --git a/sched.dist.yml b/sched.dist.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..997d0d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sched.dist.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# schedule things here, see examples
+- tokens: botname,praise
+  chat: 00000000
+  days: [1, 5]
+  time:
+    - "19:59"
+  rand: 5
+
+- tokens: greeting
+  chat: 00000000
+  days: [1, 2, 3]
+  time:
+    - "13:05"
+    - "13:10"
+  rand: 3
diff --git a/tokens.dist.yml b/tokens.dist.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d5e3782
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tokens.dist.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# you don't have to add regex for commands as they are matched separately
+start_cmd: []
+stop_cmd: []
+
+# tokens starting with ! are prioratized
+# if one of those is matched, it does not matter if there is a longer match
+# e.g. "botname,obscenity,praise,!find" will trigger "botname,!find", despite
+# "botname,obscenity,praise" being longer
+ass:
+  - жоп
+drugs:
+  - нарк
+botname:
+  - бот(яра)?
+  - железяка
+praise:
+  - хорош
+  - няшка
+  - молодец
+  - крут
+  - милый
+  - ум(ный|[её]н)
+  - жж[ео]шь?
+  - (пре)?крас(ав)?
+whatsup:
+  - как\s+(дела|жизнь|оно|ты|сам)
+  - нормальн
+  - вс[её]\s+ок\?
+  - ты\s+как\?
+greeting:
+  - привет
+  - здарова
+  - здравствуй
+  - хай
+  - эгегей
+thx:
+  - спасиб
+  - благодарю
+  - мерси
+speak:
+  - говорить
+  - общаться
+"!find":
+  - \bнайди\b
+  - \bищи\b