diff --git a/.envrc b/.envrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1d953f4bd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.envrc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+use nix
diff --git a/shell.nix b/shell.nix
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index 0000000000..8f27110433
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shell.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+let
+  nixpkgs = fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tarball/nixos-24.05";
+  pkgs = import nixpkgs { config = {}; overlays = []; };
+in
+
+pkgs.mkShellNoCC {
+  packages = with pkgs; [
+      qmk
+  ];
+}