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diff --git a/services/feature-flags/Cargo.toml b/services/feature-flags/Cargo.toml
index 1f48574b1..570b5d809 100644
--- a/services/feature-flags/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/feature-flags/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
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 description = "Feature Flags service"
 homepage = "https://comm.app"
 license = "BSD-3-Clause"
 version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = "1.0"
+clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["derive", "env"] }
+once_cell = "1.17"
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"]}
diff --git a/services/feature-flags/src/config.rs b/services/feature-flags/src/config.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a2c23169d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/feature-flags/src/config.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+use clap::{builder::FalseyValueParser, Parser};
+use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+
+use crate::constants::DEFAULT_LOCALSTACK_URL;
+
+#[derive(Parser)]
+#[command(version, about, long_about = None)]
+pub struct AppConfig {
+  /// Run the service in sandbox
+  #[arg(long = "sandbox", default_value_t = false)]
+  #[arg(value_parser = FalseyValueParser::new())]
+  pub is_sandbox: bool,
+  /// AWS Localstack service URL, applicable in sandbox mode
+  #[arg(long, default_value_t = DEFAULT_LOCALSTACK_URL.to_string())]
+  pub localstack_url: String,
+}
+
+pub static CONFIG: Lazy<AppConfig> = Lazy::new(|| AppConfig::parse());
+
+pub fn parse_cmdline_args() {
+  Lazy::force(&CONFIG);
+}
diff --git a/services/feature-flags/src/constants.rs b/services/feature-flags/src/constants.rs
index 1e0e3bae3..1951f4b0f 100644
--- a/services/feature-flags/src/constants.rs
+++ b/services/feature-flags/src/constants.rs
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+pub const DEFAULT_LOCALSTACK_URL: &str = "http://localhost:4566";
 pub const LOG_LEVEL_ENV_VAR: &str =
   tracing_subscriber::filter::EnvFilter::DEFAULT_ENV;
diff --git a/services/feature-flags/src/main.rs b/services/feature-flags/src/main.rs
index 89e2e3592..c5ba0b78b 100644
--- a/services/feature-flags/src/main.rs
+++ b/services/feature-flags/src/main.rs
@@ -1,22 +1,24 @@
 use anyhow::Result;
 use tracing::{info, Level};
 use tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter;
 
+pub mod config;
 pub mod constants;
 
 fn configure_logging() -> Result<()> {
   let filter = EnvFilter::builder()
     .with_default_directive(Level::INFO.into())
     .with_env_var(constants::LOG_LEVEL_ENV_VAR)
     .from_env_lossy();
 
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   tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(subscriber)?;
   Ok(())
 }
 
 fn main() -> Result<()> {
+  config::parse_cmdline_args();
   configure_logging()?;
   info!("Starting the service");
   Ok(())
 }