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 # Kobalt
 
-Kobalt is a universal build system, please see [the web site](http://beust.com/kobalt/) for the full documentation.
+Kobalt is a universal build system.
+ 
+To build it:
+
+```
+./kobaltw assemble
+```
+
+Please see [the web site](http://beust.com/kobalt/) for the full documentation.