diff --git a/src/cli/replicate.ts b/src/cli/replicate.ts
index 2b59316..0ef616a 100644
--- a/src/cli/replicate.ts
+++ b/src/cli/replicate.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { Command, flags } from '@oclif/command';
 import assert from 'assert';
 import Copykitku from '../copykitku';
 import { ENTITY_TYPE } from '../types';
-import { parsePath } from '../utils';
+import { getProjectConfig, parsePath } from '../utils';
 
 export default class Replicate extends Command {
   static description = 'Replicate issues/MRs between repositories';
@@ -35,18 +35,31 @@ export default class Replicate extends Command {
     },
     {
       name: 'dest',
-      required: true,
-      description: 'where you want the thing to be replicated',
+      required: false,
+      description:
+        'where you want the thing to be replicated [required in either cli arg or .copykitkurc.toml file]',
     },
   ];
 
   async run() {
     const { flags, args } = this.parse(Replicate);
 
-    const { destBranch, doNotCommit, remote, targetBranch } = flags;
+    const proj = getProjectConfig();
 
-    const sourcePath = parsePath(args.source);
-    const destPath = parsePath(args.dest);
+    const { destBranch, doNotCommit, remote, targetBranch } = { ...proj, ...flags };
+
+    const { source, dest } = {
+      ...proj,
+      ...(args as {
+        source: string;
+        dest?: string;
+      }),
+    };
+
+    assert(typeof dest === 'string', 'Destination repository must be defined');
+
+    const sourcePath = parsePath(source);
+    const destPath = parsePath(dest);
 
     assert(sourcePath.entityID, 'Source must be a repo element, not a repo itself');
 
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
index 68d0078..8fe3bbe 100644
--- a/src/types.ts
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -160,3 +160,8 @@ export interface Actor {
   display_name?: string | null;
   vendor: Vendor;
 }
+
+export type CopykitkuProjectConfig = Partial<{
+  /** destination repository url (like "https://git.sakamoto.pl/laudompat/copykitku") */
+  dest: string;
+}>;
diff --git a/src/utils.ts b/src/utils.ts
index c61fe11..63e6507 100644
--- a/src/utils.ts
+++ b/src/utils.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 import { readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'fs-extra';
 import toml from '@iarna/toml';
 import appdataPath from 'appdata-path';
-import { CopykitkuConfig, ENTITY_TYPE } from './types';
+import path from 'path';
+import { CopykitkuConfig, CopykitkuProjectConfig, ENTITY_TYPE } from './types';
 
 export const DEFAULT_CONFIG: CopykitkuConfig = {
   vendorConfigs: [],
@@ -34,6 +35,22 @@ export const setConfig = (config: CopykitkuConfig) =>
     encoding: 'utf-8',
   });
 
+export const getProjectConfigPath = () => path.join(process.cwd(), '.copykitkurc.toml');
+
+export const getProjectConfig = () => {
+  try {
+    const file = readFileSync(getProjectConfigPath());
+    return (toml.parse(file.toString('utf-8')) as unknown) as CopykitkuProjectConfig;
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (err.code === 'ENOENT') {
+      return {};
+    } else {
+      // project config file exists, but cannot be accessed/parsed for some reason
+      throw err;
+    }
+  }
+};
+
 export type Path =
   | {
       domain: string;