diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0232ec5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+name: Test
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: Test
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+       - name: Checkout code
+         uses: actions/checkout@v4
+       - name: Test
+         id: test
+         uses: ./
+         with:
+           commit-message: |
+               Use external action
+
+               Run-GHA: true
+               Skip-PR-comments: true
+               Test-tag: always_passes,vm
+
+               Required-githooks: true
+
+               Signed-off-by: Brian J. Murrell <brian.murrell@intel.com>
+           pragma: TEST_TAG
+           default: foobar
+       - name: Test value
+         run: |
+              set -eux
+              if [ '${{ steps.test.outputs.value }}' != 'always_passes,vm' ]; then
+                  echo "Value is not 'always_passes,vm'"
+                  exit 1
+              fi
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 49f45ea..4d4590e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1 +1 @@
-A GitHub Action to …
+A GitHub Action to create a variable from a commit pragma
diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index e0c038f..49226aa 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -1,12 +1,37 @@
-name: '…'
-description: '…'
-#inputs:
-#  <name>:
-#    description: '…'
-#    required: true
+name: 'Set Variable from Commit Pragma'
+description: 'Set Variable from Commit Pragma'
+inputs:
+  commit-message:
+    description: Dequoted commit message
+    required: true
+  pragma:
+    description: Pragma to make a variable from
+    required: true
+  default:
+    description: Default value if pragma is not found
+    required: false
+outputs:
+  value:
+    description: The value of the pragma
+    value: ${{ steps.value.outputs.value }}
+
 runs:
   using: "composite"
   steps:
-    - run: |
-        echo "…"
+    # checkout the common library
+    - name: Checkout code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        repository: daos-stack/actions-lib
+        ref: bmurrell/initial
+        path: actions-lib
+    - name: Create Variable
+      id: value
       shell: bash
+      run: |
+           set -eu
+           # using user input (the commit message) in an eval can be pretty dangerous
+           # but actions-lib/get_commit_pragmas does a good job of sanitizing it
+           eval $(echo '${{ inputs.commit-message }}' | actions-lib/get_commit_pragmas)
+           echo "value=${${{ inputs.pragma }}:-${{ inputs.default }}}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+           cat "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"