diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 841dcca..e56d23c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,12 +17,16 @@ client.Query(context.Background(), &query, nil)
 fmt.Println(query.Me.Name)
 // Output: Luke Skywalker
 ```
-While your code is type-safe, there's nothing to check that the schema looks like you intend it to.  In fact, perhaps here we're querying the GitHub API, in which the field is called `viewer`, not `me`, so this query will fail.  Even more common than misusing the name of the field is mis-capitalizing it: the GraphQL convention is `myUrl` whereas the Go convention is `MyURL`, and it's easy to forget to use the right struct tag.  (And if you remember, it adds up to a lot of boilerplate!)  Other clients, such as [machinebox/graphql](https://github.com/machinebox/graphql), have even fewer guardrails to help you make the right query.
+While your code is type-safe, there's nothing to check that the schema looks like you intend it to.  In fact, perhaps here we're querying the GitHub API, in which the field is called `viewer`, not `me`, so this query will fail.  Even more common than misusing the name of the field is mis-capitalizing it: the GraphQL convention is `myUrl` whereas the Go convention is `MyURL`, and it's easy to forget to use the right struct tag.  (And if you remember, it adds up to a lot of boilerplate!)  Other clients, such as [machinebox/graphql](https://github.com/machinebox/graphql), have even fewer guardrails to help you make the right query and use the result correctly.
 
 These problems should be entirely avoidable: GraphQL and Go are both typed languages; and GraphQL servers expose their schema in a standard, machine-readable format.  We should be able to simply write a query `{ viewer { name } }`, have that automatically validated against the schema and turned into a Go struct which we can use in our code.  In fact, there's already good prior art to do this sort of thing: [99designs/gqlgen](https://github.com/99designs/gqlgen) is a popular server library that does exactly this: it generates type-safe GraphQL resolvers from a schema.
 
 This is a proof-of-concept of a GraphQL client that does the same sort of thing: you specify the query, and it generates type-safe helpers that make your query.
 
+## Usage
+
+See `example/`.
+
 ## Major TODOs
 
 Query structures to support:
@@ -33,3 +37,6 @@ Config options:
 - file locations (queries, generated, schema (or get via HTTP))
 - use ctx or not, incl. complexities of how Khan uses context
 - HTTP calling convention (is there enough variation to matter?)
+
+Other:
+- figure out and document go generate syntax
diff --git a/example/README.md b/example/README.md
index f62ea3f..a6a36c1 100644
--- a/example/README.md
+++ b/example/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,34 @@
-Generate the schemas by getting a token from [GitHub](https://github.com/settings/tokens/new) (no scopes needed), then:
+# example of genql
+
+## Getting a token
+Get a token from [GitHub](https://github.com/settings/tokens/new) (no scopes needed).
+
+## Invoking the example 
+
+To run the example:
+
+```sh
+$ KEY=<your token> go run ./cmd/example/main.go <username>
+you are Ben Kraft
+csilvers is Craig Silverstein
 ```
+
+## Running genql
+
+It's already checked in to github, but to generate `generated.go`:
+```sh
+rm example/generated.go
+go run ./cmd/genql/main.go example/genql.yaml
+```
+
+## Generating the schema files
+
+These are also checked in, but to update them:
+
+```sh
 npm install -g graphql-introspection-json-to-sdl
 curl -H "Authorization: bearer <your token>" https://api.github.com/graphql >example/schema.json
 graphql-introspection-json-to-sdl example/schema.json >example/schema.graphql
 ```
+
 TODO: something better
diff --git a/example/generated.go b/example/generated.go
index 173074d..9655469 100644
--- a/example/generated.go
+++ b/example/generated.go
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+// Code generated by github.com/Khan/genql, DO NOT EDIT.
 package example
 
 import (
diff --git a/example/genql.yaml b/example/genql.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6def54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/genql.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# These are the defaults.
+package: example
+schema: schema.graphql
+queries: queries.graphql
+generated: generated.go
diff --git a/generate/config.go b/generate/config.go
index 1ebf520..3acbbde 100644
--- a/generate/config.go
+++ b/generate/config.go
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ func ReadAndValidateConfig(filename string) (*Config, error) {
 	}
 
 	var config Config
-	err = yaml.Unmarshal(text, config)
+	err = yaml.Unmarshal(text, &config)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid config file %v: %v", filename, err)
 	}
@@ -72,5 +72,12 @@ func ReadAndValidateConfig(filename string) (*Config, error) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid config file %v: %v", filename, err)
 	}
 
+	// Make paths relative to config dir
+	// TODO: more principled typing here?
+	basename := filepath.Dir(filename)
+	config.Schema = filepath.Join(basename, config.Schema)
+	config.Queries = filepath.Join(basename, config.Queries)
+	config.Generated = filepath.Join(basename, config.Generated)
+
 	return &config, nil
 }
diff --git a/generate/main.go b/generate/main.go
index d73110e..554a788 100644
--- a/generate/main.go
+++ b/generate/main.go
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ func Main() {
 	}()
 
 	if len(os.Args) != 2 {
+		// TODO: omit config to get it from genql.yaml, or to use the defaults.
 		err = fmt.Errorf("usage: %s genql.yaml", os.Args[0])
 		return
 	}
diff --git a/generate/operation.go.tmpl b/generate/operation.go.tmpl
index 5a9d5a7..6552140 100644
--- a/generate/operation.go.tmpl
+++ b/generate/operation.go.tmpl
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+// Code generated by github.com/Khan/genql, DO NOT EDIT.
 package {{.PackageName}}
 
 import (