diff --git a/discord/commands.go b/discord/commands.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..128321a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/discord/commands.go
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/bwmarrin/discordgo"
+)
+
+/* The Command interface is a template for the implementation of a command of the discord bot.
+The actual command will be executed in the Execute function.
+All the actual Command objects will be (similarly to Handlers in the net/http package) put into a CommandMux */
+type Command interface {
+	Execute(s *discordgo.Session, m *discordgo.MessageCreate)
+}
+
+/* The CommandMux struct is a type of mux for Discord commands. It's modelled after the net/http ServeMux */
+type CommandMux struct {
+	m      map[string]muxEntry
+	prefix string
+}
+
+func (c *CommandMux) Handler(m *discordgo.MessageCreate) (cmd Command, pattern string) {
+	if strings.HasPrefix(m.Content, c.prefix) {
+
+	}
+}
+
+func (c *CommandMux) Execute(s *discordgo.Session, m *discordgo.MessageCreate) {
+
+}
+
+/* The muxEntry struct contains the actual Command implementation as well as the pattern (discord command)
+it will be matched against */
+type muxEntry struct {
+	h       Command
+	pattern string
+}
diff --git a/discord/main.go b/discord/main.go
index 8e04636..6d61691 100644
--- a/discord/main.go
+++ b/discord/main.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ type application struct {
 	trigger     string
 	allBadWords map[string][]string
 	limiter     *limiter.Limiter
+	commandMux  *CommandMux
 
 	active bool
 	stop   bool