diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0b6a59a..745c7bb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ default: build
 build:
 	@rm -rf dst
 	@kiln
+	chmod a+x dst/cgi-bin/*
 	@tree dst
 
 deploy: build
diff --git a/README.gmi b/README.gmi
index 7b46276..caf34de 100644
--- a/README.gmi
+++ b/README.gmi
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The Gemini capsule is hosted here:
 ## Tools
 
 => https://sr.ht/~adnano/kiln Kiln static site generator
-=> gemini://gem.limpet.net/agate/ Agate Gemini server
+=> gemini://80h.dev/projects/gemserv/ Gemserv Gemini server
 
 ## Usage
 
@@ -23,4 +23,5 @@ Ensure Kiln is installed and run:
 make
 ```
 
-Feed the `dst/` directory to Agate.
+Feed the dst/ directory to Gemserv. I used to use Agate, but now I need cgi-bin
+support.
diff --git a/src/cgi-bin/debug b/src/cgi-bin/debug
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..00da0ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cgi-bin/debug
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [ "$QUERY_STRING" = "" ]; then
+        echo -ne "10 Enter a query string\r\n"
+        exit 0
+fi
+
+echo -ne "20 text/plain\r\n"
+echo -ne "SCRIPT_NAME: $SCRIPT_NAME\r\n"
+echo -ne "PATH_INFO: $PATH_INFO\r\n"
+echo -ne "QUERY_STRING: $QUERY_STRING\r\n"
+
+
diff --git a/src/cgi-bin/translate b/src/cgi-bin/translate
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2f75dff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cgi-bin/translate
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+# A cgi-bin script that translates between languages, scraping apertium's API
+# to do so
+#
+# It's kind of bad manners; I'll transition it to the offline tools once I've
+# worked those out.
+#
+# CGI works with environment variables. Here are the ones that matter:
+#
+# PATH_INFO: /<from>/<to>
+# QUERY_STRING: Some%20text%20to%20translate
+#
+# We expect to be called like: /cgi-bin/translate/eng/spa?Food
+#
+# If we don't have two languages, make it a Not Found error.
+# If we don't have a query string to translate, ask for one.
+
+require 'cgi'
+
+class Object
+  def blank?
+    nil? || self&.empty?
+  end
+end
+
+def respond!(code, meta, body = nil)
+  STDOUT.print("#{code} #{meta}\r\n")
+  STDOUT.print(body) unless body.blank?
+  exit 0
+end
+
+def ask!(prompt)
+  respond!(10, prompt)
+end
+
+def ok!(meta, body = nil)
+  respond!(20, meta, body)
+end
+
+def temp_fail!(meta = 'Temporary Failure')
+  respond!(40, meta)
+end
+
+def not_found!(meta = 'Not Found')
+  respond!(51, meta)
+end
+
+def extract_languages(path)
+  return if path.blank? || !path.start_with?('/')
+
+  _, src, dst, *rest = path.split('/')
+
+  return unless rest.empty?
+  # return unless LANGUAGES.include?(src) && LANGUAGES.include?(dst)
+
+  [src, dst]
+end
+
+def extract_text(query)
+  return "" if query.blank?
+
+  CGI.unescape(query)
+end
+
+SRC_LANG, DST_LANG = extract_languages(ENV['PATH_INFO'])
+not_found! if SRC_LANG.blank? || DST_LANG.blank?
+
+TRANSLATE = extract_text(ENV['QUERY_STRING'])
+
+# TODO: we could detect a URL and translate the whole page sometime, perhaps
+ask!('Enter text to translate') if TRANSLATE.blank?
+
+require 'net/http'
+require 'json'
+
+uri = URI.parse('https://www.apertium.org/apy/translate')
+uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(q: TRANSLATE, langpair: [SRC_LANG, DST_LANG].join('|'))
+
+rsp = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
+temp_fail!("Couldn't get translation (1)") unless rsp
+
+begin
+  structure = JSON.parse(rsp)
+rescue
+  temp_fail!("Couldn't get translation (2)")
+end
+
+temp_fail!("Couldn't get transaltion (3)") unless structure['responseStatus'] == 200
+
+ok!('text/plain', structure.dig('responseData', 'translatedText'))
diff --git a/src/index.gmi b/src/index.gmi
index 38a6918..ce268f3 100644
--- a/src/index.gmi
+++ b/src/index.gmi
@@ -7,4 +7,9 @@
 
 => me@ur.gs.gpg.asc GPG key
 
+## Translation service
+
+=> /cgi-bin/translate/eng/spa English -> Español
+=> /cgi-bin/translate/spa/eng Español -> English
+
 ## About Me
diff --git a/src/robots.txt b/src/robots.txt
index b0a24ea..78c3135 100644
--- a/src/robots.txt
+++ b/src/robots.txt
@@ -30,3 +30,7 @@ Disallow:
 # don't do that
 User-Agent: webproxy
 Disallow:
+
+# Here be dragons
+User-Agent: *
+Disallow: /cgi-bin/