diff --git a/tasks/hello-octave.task b/tasks/hello-octave.task
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..800efa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/hello-octave.task
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "environment": "octave",
+  "taskfs": "hello-octave.sfs",
+  "limits": {
+    "time": 60,
+    "memory": 128,
+    "disk": 50,
+    "output": 4096
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tasks/hello-octave/control b/tasks/hello-octave/control
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..07f0ef7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/hello-octave/control
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+./task/hello-octave.sh
diff --git a/tasks/hello-octave/hello-octave.oct b/tasks/hello-octave/hello-octave.oct
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1587579
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/hello-octave/hello-octave.oct
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+printf ("Hello, world!\n");
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tasks/hello-octave/hello-octave.sh b/tasks/hello-octave/hello-octave.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2db4e5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/hello-octave/hello-octave.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+octave-cli -qf /task/hello-octave.oct