diff --git a/Snakefile b/Snakefile
index 0b72ae4b..e56d86d2 100644
--- a/Snakefile
+++ b/Snakefile
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 
+from os.path import exists
+from shutil import copyfile
+
 from snakemake.remote.HTTP import RemoteProvider as HTTPRemoteProvider
 HTTP = HTTPRemoteProvider()
 
+if not exists("config.yaml"):
+    copyfile("config.default.yaml", "config.yaml")
+
 configfile: "config.yaml"