diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b4eb5e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+name: Workflow for ci
+on: [push, pull_request]
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Build
+        run: make
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: make check
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 392b4eb..bb3a682 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -6,5 +6,8 @@ test : test.c optparse.h
 run : test
 	./test -abdfoo -c bar subcommand example.txt -a
 
+check: test
+	./test
+
 clean :
 	rm -f test
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2a85d56..fe4d1be 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Optparse
 
+[![Build Status](https://github.com/skeeto/optparse/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/skeeto/optparse/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+
 Optparse is a public domain, portable, reentrant, embeddable, getopt-like
 option parser. As a single header file, it's trivially dropped into any
 project. It supports POSIX getopt option strings, GNU-style long options,