diff --git a/closure/private/closure_common.bzl b/closure/private/closure_common.bzl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1e7a8c0047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/closure/private/closure_common.bzl
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Copyright 2019 The Closure Rules Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+load("//closure/private/utils:soy.bzl", "soy")
+
+closure_common = struct(
+    soy = soy,
+)
diff --git a/closure/private/providers.bzl b/closure/private/providers.bzl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0d2c8cca4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/closure/private/providers.bzl
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Copyright 2019 The Closure Rules Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+SoyInfo = provider(
+    doc = "Encapsulates information provided by soy_library.",
+    fields = {
+        "direct_headers": "A set of soy header files of the direct sources. " +
+                          "If the library is a proxy library that has no " +
+                          "sources, it contains the direct_headers from this " +
+                          "library's direct deps.",
+        "direct_sources": "A set of soy sources from the 'srcs' attribute.",
+        "proto_descriptor_sets": "A set of FileDescriptorSet files of all " +
+                                 "dependent proto_library rules.",
+        "indirect_headers": "A set of soy header files from all dependent " +
+                            "soy_library rules, but excluding direct headers.",
+        "indirect_sources": "A set of soy sources of all dependent" +
+                            "soy_library rules, but excluding direct sources.",
+    },
+)
diff --git a/closure/private/rules/BUILD b/closure/private/rules/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6a6c08b82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/closure/private/rules/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Copyright 2019 The Closure Rules Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
diff --git a/closure/private/rules/soy_library.bzl b/closure/private/rules/soy_library.bzl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..72818f873b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/closure/private/rules/soy_library.bzl
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Copyright 2019 The Closure Rules Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+load("//closure/private:closure_common.bzl", "closure_common")
+load("//closure/private:providers.bzl", "SoyInfo")
+
+def _soy_library_impl(ctx):
+    soyh = ctx.actions.declare_file("{}.soyh.bin".format(ctx.label.name))
+    return [
+        DefaultInfo(
+            files = depset([soyh]),
+        ),
+        closure_common.soy.compile(
+            actions = ctx.actions,
+            closure_toolchain = struct(
+                soy = struct(
+                    header_compiler = ctx.attr._compiler.files_to_run,
+                ),
+            ),
+            srcs = ctx.files.srcs,
+            output = soyh,
+            deps = [dep[SoyInfo] for dep in ctx.attr.deps],
+            proto_descriptor_sets = depset(
+                direct = [],
+                transitive = [dep[ProtoInfo].transitive_descriptor_sets for dep in ctx.attr.proto_deps],
+            ),
+        ),
+    ]
+
+soy_library = rule(
+    implementation = _soy_library_impl,
+    attrs = {
+        "srcs": attr.label_list(
+            mandatory = True,
+            allow_files = [".soy"],
+        ),
+        "deps": attr.label_list(
+            mandatory = False,
+            providers = [SoyInfo],
+        ),
+        "proto_deps": attr.label_list(
+            mandatory = False,
+            providers = [ProtoInfo],
+        ),
+        # TODO(yannic): Add this to closure_toolchain.
+        "_compiler": attr.label(
+            default = "@com_google_template_soy//:SoyHeaderCompiler",
+            executable = True,
+            cfg = "host",
+        ),
+    },
+    provides = [
+        SoyInfo,
+    ],
+)
diff --git a/closure/private/utils/BUILD b/closure/private/utils/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6a6c08b82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/closure/private/utils/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Copyright 2019 The Closure Rules Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
diff --git a/closure/private/utils/soy.bzl b/closure/private/utils/soy.bzl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0bd45f10b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/closure/private/utils/soy.bzl
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Copyright 2019 The Closure Rules Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+load("//closure/private/utils/soy:compile.bzl", "compile")
+
+soy = struct(
+    compile = compile,
+)
diff --git a/closure/private/utils/soy/BUILD b/closure/private/utils/soy/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6a6c08b82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/closure/private/utils/soy/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Copyright 2019 The Closure Rules Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
diff --git a/closure/private/utils/soy/compile.bzl b/closure/private/utils/soy/compile.bzl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0926af7047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/closure/private/utils/soy/compile.bzl
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+# Copyright 2019 The Closure Rules Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+load("//closure/private:providers.bzl", "SoyInfo")
+
+def compile(
+        actions,
+        closure_toolchain,
+        srcs,
+        output,
+        deps = [],
+        proto_descriptor_sets = depset()):
+    """Compiles Soy source files into an intermediate build artifact and returns
+    a provider that represents the results of the compilation and can be added
+    to the set of providers emitted by this rule.
+
+    Compiling the source files that represent a single library into an
+    intermediate build artifact that later compilations can use in preference to
+    parsing dependencies improves overall compiler performance by making builds
+    more cacheable.
+
+    Args:
+      actions: Required. Instance of `ctx.actions`.
+      closure_toolchain: Required. The toolchain used to find the
+          SoyHeaderCompiler binary.
+      srcs: Required. A list of the Soy source files to be compiled.
+      output: Required. The output intermediate build artifact.
+      deps: Optional. A list of `ClosureTemplateInfo` of (direct) dependencies.
+      proto_descriptor_sets:
+    Returns:
+      An instance of `SoyInfo`.
+    """
+
+    # TODO(yannic): Add support for dependency pruning.
+
+    # TODO(yannic): Add support for `--cssMetadataOutput`.
+
+    args = actions.args()
+
+    args.add("--output", output)
+    args.add_all(srcs, before_each = "--srcs")
+
+    direct_deps = depset(
+        direct = [],
+        transitive = [dep.direct_headers for dep in deps],
+    )
+    args.add_all(direct_deps, before_each = "--depHeaders")
+
+    indirect_deps = depset(
+        direct = [],
+        transitive = [dep.indirect_headers for dep in deps],
+    )
+    args.add_all(indirect_deps, before_each = "--indirectDepHeaders")
+
+    proto_descriptors = depset(
+        direct = [],
+        transitive = [proto_descriptor_sets] + [dep.proto_descriptor_sets for dep in deps],
+    )
+    args.add_all(proto_descriptors, before_each = "--protoFileDescriptors")
+
+    actions.run(
+        executable = closure_toolchain.soy.header_compiler,
+        inputs = depset(
+            direct = srcs,
+            transitive = [direct_deps, indirect_deps, proto_descriptors],
+        ),
+        outputs = [output],
+        arguments = [args],
+    )
+
+    return SoyInfo(
+        direct_headers = depset([output]),
+        direct_sources = depset(srcs),
+        indirect_headers = depset(
+            direct = [],
+            transitive = [direct_deps, indirect_deps],
+        ),
+        indirect_sources = depset(
+            direct = [],
+            transitive = [dep.indirect_sources for dep in deps] +
+                         [dep.direct_sources for dep in deps],
+        ),
+        proto_descriptor_sets = proto_descriptor_sets,
+    )
diff --git a/closure/repositories.bzl b/closure/repositories.bzl
index 565e8675b6..ab58d72fb2 100644
--- a/closure/repositories.bzl
+++ b/closure/repositories.bzl
@@ -798,6 +798,7 @@ def com_google_template_soy():
              ")\n") % (name, name)
             for name in (
                 "SoyParseInfoGenerator",
+                "SoyHeaderCompiler",
                 "SoyToJbcSrcCompiler",
                 "SoyToJsSrcCompiler",
                 "SoyToPySrcCompiler",
diff --git a/tests/soy/BUILD b/tests/soy/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed121881ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/soy/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Copyright 2019 The Closure Rules Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+load("//closure/private/rules:soy_library.bzl", "soy_library")
+
+soy_library(
+    name = "bold_soy",
+    srcs = [
+        "bold.soy",
+    ],
+)
+
+soy_library(
+    name = "greet_soy",
+    srcs = [
+        "greet.soy",
+    ],
+)
diff --git a/tests/soy/bold.soy b/tests/soy/bold.soy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5a46a453f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/soy/bold.soy
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Closure Rules Authors. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+{namespace soy.io.bazel.rules.closure.tests}
+
+/**
+ * Prints |text| in bold.
+ */
+{template .bold}
+  {@param text : html}
+
+  <strong>
+    {$text}
+  </strong>
+{/template}
diff --git a/tests/soy/greet.soy b/tests/soy/greet.soy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a315107d39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/soy/greet.soy
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Closure Rules Authors. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+{namespace soy.io.bazel.rules.closure.tests}
+
+/**
+ * Prints |text| in bold.
+ */
+{template .greet}
+  {@param person : string}
+
+  {call .strong}
+    {param text kind="css"}
+      {$person}
+    {/param}
+  {/call}
+{/template}