diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd511ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+[bumpversion]
+current_version = 0.0.1
+commit = True
+tag = True
+
+[bumpversion:file:pyproject.toml]
+search = version = "{current_version}"
+replace = version = "{new_version}"
+
+[bumpversion:file:src/DraftGPT/__init__.py]
+search = __version__ = "{current_version}"
+replace = __version__ = "{new_version}"
+
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-project.yml b/.github/workflows/build-project.yml
index cf59d66..9efafca 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-project.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-project.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-name: Build DraftGPT Package
+name: Build and Publish DraftGPT Package
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
 
+
 jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -10,6 +11,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
     - name: Checkout code
       uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0
 
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
@@ -19,7 +22,14 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install build dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install setuptools wheel
+        pip install setuptools wheel twine bump2version
+
+    - name: Bump version
+      id: bump_version
+      run: |
+        bump2version patch
+      env:
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
     - name: Build package
       run: |
@@ -29,9 +39,20 @@ jobs:
     - name: Verify build
       run: |
         ls dist/
-    
-    - name: Upload build artifacts
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+
+    - name: Publish to PyPI
+      env:
+        TWINE_USERNAME: __token__
+        TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
+      run: twine upload dist/*
+
+    - name: Create GitHub release
+      uses: actions/create-release@v1
+      env:
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       with:
-        name: drafgpt-package
-        path: dist/
+        tag_name: v${{ steps.bump_version.outputs.new_version }}
+        release_name: Release ${{ steps.bump_version.outputs.new_version }}
+        body: |
+          Release notes for version ${{ steps.bump_version.outputs.new_version }}
+
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 39ee025..4f0c68b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@ classifiers = [
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/Sanjivani-S/DraftGPT"
 Issues = "https://github.com/Sanjivani-S/DraftGPT/issues"
+
+[project.dependencies]
+requests = "*"
diff --git a/src/DraftGPT/__init__.py b/src/DraftGPT/__init__.py
index e69de29..f102a9c 100644
--- a/src/DraftGPT/__init__.py
+++ b/src/DraftGPT/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__version__ = "0.0.1"