diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3b125621..3f05e69e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 /test/e2e/assets/simple-app/empty-dir
 .idea
 *.iml
+/vendir.json
diff --git a/SCOOP_GUIDELINES.md b/SCOOP_GUIDELINES.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b9e2d97d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SCOOP_GUIDELINES.md
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# :bookmark_tabs:Scoop guidelines
+
+[Scoop](https://scoop.sh/) is a command-line installer for Windows.
+
+# :rocket:Get started
+
+For now, to manually and locally install `vendir` :
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel-vendir.git
+cd carvel-vendir
+export TARGET_VERSION=0.21.1
+sed 's/$VENDIR_VERSION/'"$TARGET_VERSION"'/g' vendir.json.template > vendir.json
+scoop install vendir
+```
+
+# :point_right:To do
+
+To get this from a central repo, it is highly recommended to create a 
+dedicated [Scoop Bucket](https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Buckets).
+
diff --git a/vendir.json.template b/vendir.json.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..72edcbe5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendir.json.template
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+    "description": "Carvel vendir is a tool that makes it easy to vendor portions of git repos, github releases, helm charts, docker image contents, etc. declaratively",
+    "notes": "See https://carvel.dev/vendir/#examples for some examples",
+    "version": "$VENDIR_VERSION",
+    "homepage": "https://carvel.dev/vendir/",
+    "license": "https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel-vendir/blob/develop/LICENSE",
+    "url": "https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel-vendir/releases/download/v$VENDIR_VERSION/vendir-windows-amd64.exe#/vendir.exe",
+    "bin": "vendir.exe",
+    "post_install": "vendir version"
+}