diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 56ec2fe56dc50a552413f9e1d343421292fb0b61..b24bdcca6373256d1818b9e9e4ee57f2e94ebb35 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
+# Build artefacts
+prompt
+models/
+
+# Other files
+.DS_Store
 *.log
-prompt
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4efdf6e49cb2fe78c6cf827d36e6dde489aade38..7267ff94107fb859f651234a951d3b28c24fa357 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 MAKEFLAGS += -j4
-MEX_ASSURE="cc docker"
+MEX_ASSURE="cc docker wget"
 
 include makext.mk
 
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ 	mkdir $(LLAMA_DIR)/build && \
 		cd $(LLAMA_DIR)/build && \
 		cmake ../ -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF && \
 		make -j8
+
+fetchmodels: .assure # Fetch GGUF models
+	-mkdir -p models
+	cd models && wget -nc -i ../models.txt
 
 docker: .assure # Runs prompt in Docker container
 	docker build -t promptd .
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fa8c3a985e9302dafdf1e36ed53a1f0976fecf7c..9d8fe1b393b346df5bc271166b316d9ae6984f1a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,12 @@    ```bash
    make llamacpp
    ```
 
-2. Build the prompt binary:
+2. Download models
+   ```bash
+   make fetchmodels
+   ```
+
+3. Build the prompt binary:
    ```bash
    make prompt
    ```