diff --git a/build_commands.md b/build_commands.md
index 3bcae96..70ddb63 100644
--- a/build_commands.md
+++ b/build_commands.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Commands I executed for testing the build of cmatrix in a alpine-based docker container.
 
+The workflow: These can be copied to a plain Dockerfile (with only the alpine base and possibly author info already defined) and then cleaned to a single RUN command.
+
 ```sh
 hostname
 git
@@ -37,4 +39,4 @@ make
 ./cmatrix
 ./cmatrix -b
 history
-
+```