diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 849c79d9..21df0134 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -78,3 +78,6 @@
 	path = omero-web-zarr
 	url = https://github.com/ome/omero-web-zarr
 	branch = main
+[submodule "omero-cli-zarr"]
+	path = omero-cli-zarr
+	url = https://github.com/ome/omero-cli-zarr
diff --git a/omero-cli-zarr b/omero-cli-zarr
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..954dd245
--- /dev/null
+++ b/omero-cli-zarr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 954dd2456f4298e7d6d90bc008249ea3c354a7cb