diff --git a/src/fs/lexer.test.ts b/src/fs/lexer.test.ts
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+import { lex } from './lexer';
+import { Identifier } from '../shared/tokens';
+import { ThenI, SaveThe, IntoTheFile } from './tokens';
+
+test('that lexing works', async () => {
+	// Given I have a contract with filesystem statements in it
+	const contract = `Rule unknown ignore
+Given I have a 'string' named 'stringToWrite'
+and I have a 'string' named 'nameOfTheFile'
+
+Then I save the 'stringToWrite' into the file 'nameOfTheFile'
+`;
+	// When I lex it
+	const lexed = await lex(contract, { data: { stringToWrite: 'foo', nameOfTheFile: 'bar' } });
+	// Then the result must have no errors
+	expect(lexed.errors).toHaveLength(0);
+	// and it must have 5 tokens
+	expect(lexed.tokens).toHaveLength(5);
+	// and those tokens must be these:
+	expect(lexed.tokens[0].tokenType).toStrictEqual(ThenI);
+	expect(lexed.tokens[1].tokenType).toStrictEqual(SaveThe);
+	expect(lexed.tokens[2].tokenType).toStrictEqual(Identifier);
+	expect(lexed.tokens[3].tokenType).toStrictEqual(IntoTheFile);
+	expect(lexed.tokens[4].tokenType).toStrictEqual(Identifier);
+});
diff --git a/src/fs/lexer.ts b/src/fs/lexer.ts
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+import { ZenroomParams } from '../shared/zenroom';
+import { vocab } from './tokens';
+import { getIgnoredStatements } from '../ignored';
+
+import { Lexer } from 'chevrotain';
+
+const FsLexer = new Lexer(vocab);
+
+/**
+ * Lexes the input text for filesystem statements.
+ *
+ * @param contract the zencode contract to be lexed.
+ * @returns the lexed result.
+ */
+export const lex = async (contract: string, params?: ZenroomParams) => {
+	const ignored = await getIgnoredStatements(contract, params);
+	return FsLexer.tokenize(ignored.join('\n'));
+};
diff --git a/src/fs/parser.ts b/src/fs/parser.ts
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+import { Identifier } from '../shared/tokens';
+import { ZenroomParams } from '../shared/zenroom';
+import { IntoTheFile, SaveThe, ThenI, vocab } from './tokens';
+import { lex } from './lexer';
+
+import { CstParser, IToken } from 'chevrotain';
+
+export type FileOverrideStatementCtx = {
+	ThenI: [IToken];
+	SaveThe: [IToken];
+	content: [IToken];
+	IntoTheFile: [IToken];
+	filename: [IToken];
+};
+
+class Parser extends CstParser {
+	constructor() {
+		super(vocab);
+		this.performSelfAnalysis();
+	}
+
+	public fileOverrideStatement = this.RULE('fileOverrideStatement', () => {
+		this.CONSUME(ThenI);
+		this.CONSUME(SaveThe);
+		this.CONSUME(Identifier, { LABEL: 'content' });
+		this.CONSUME(IntoTheFile);
+		this.CONSUME2(Identifier, { LABEL: 'filename' });
+	});
+}
+
+export const FsParser = new Parser();
+export const BaseFsVisitor = FsParser.getBaseCstVisitorConstructor();
+
+export const parse = async (contract: string, params?: ZenroomParams) => {
+	const lexed = await lex(contract, params);
+	FsParser.input = lexed.tokens;
+	return FsParser.fileOverrideStatement();
+};
diff --git a/src/fs/tokens.ts b/src/fs/tokens.ts
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+import { Whitespace, Comment, Identifier } from '../shared/tokens';
+
+import { createToken } from 'chevrotain';
+
+// TODO: maybe this should be put in shared and/or the "I" part should be split up.
+/**
+ * The "Then I" statement.
+ */
+export const ThenI = createToken({
+	name: 'ThenI',
+	pattern: /Then I/
+});
+
+/**
+ * The "save the" statement, used to write files to the filesystems.
+ */
+export const SaveThe = createToken({
+	name: 'SaveThe',
+	pattern: /save the/
+});
+
+/**
+ * The "into the file" statement, used to indicate the file to which to
+ * write.
+ */
+export const IntoTheFile = createToken({
+	name: 'IntoTheFile',
+	pattern: /into the file/
+});
+
+/**
+ * Vocabulary to perform filesystems actions.
+ */
+export const vocab = [Whitespace, Comment, ThenI, SaveThe, IntoTheFile, Identifier];
diff --git a/src/fs/visitor.test.ts b/src/fs/visitor.test.ts
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+import { visit } from './visitor';
+
+test('that', async () => {
+	// Given I have a contract with filesystem statements in it
+	const contract = `Rule unknown ignore
+Given I have a 'string' named 'stringToWrite'
+and I have a 'string' named 'nameOfTheFile'
+
+Then I save the 'stringToWrite' into the file 'nameOfTheFile'
+`;
+	const ast = await visit(contract, {
+		data: { stringToWrite: 'hello world', nameOfTheFile: 'hello-world.txt' }
+	});
+
+	expect(true).toStrictEqual(true);
+});
diff --git a/src/fs/visitor.ts b/src/fs/visitor.ts
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+import { ZenroomParams } from '../shared/zenroom';
+import { BaseFsVisitor, parse, type FileOverrideStatementCtx } from './parser';
+
+import { type CstNode } from 'chevrotain';
+
+export type FileOverrideStatement = {
+	content: string;
+	filename: string;
+};
+
+interface Visitor {
+	visit(params: CstNode): FileOverrideStatement;
+}
+
+class Visitor extends BaseFsVisitor {
+	constructor() {
+		super();
+		this.validateVisitor();
+	}
+
+	fileOverrideStatement(ctx: FileOverrideStatementCtx) {
+		const content = ctx.content[0].image;
+		const filename = ctx.filename[0].image;
+		return {
+			content: content,
+			filename: filename
+		};
+	}
+}
+
+export const FsVisitor = new Visitor();
+
+export const visit = async (contract: string, params?: ZenroomParams) => {
+	const parsed = await parse(contract, params);
+	return FsVisitor.visit(parsed);
+};