diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # FBMarkdown
+
 FBMarkdown is an extensible parser and renderer for [GitHub Flavored Markdown](https://github.github.com/gfm/),
 written in [Hack](http://hacklang.org).
 
@@ -22,26 +23,24 @@ FBMarkdown exists to address all of these goals.
 
 ## Requirements
 
-- HHVM 3.24 or above.
+- HHVM 3.56 or above.
 - [hhvm-autoload](https://github.com/hhvm/hhvm-autoload)
 
 ## Installing FBMarkdown
 
-    hhvm composer.phar require facebook/fbmarkdown
+```sh
+composer require facebook/fbmarkdown
+```
 
 ## Using FBMarkdown
 
-```Hack
+```hack
 use namespace Facebook\Markdown;
 
 function render(string $markdown): string {
-  $ast = Markdown\parse(new Markdown\ParserContext(), $markdown);
+  $environment = Markdown\html_environment();
 
-  $html = (new Markdown\HTMLRenderer(
-    new Markdown\RenderContext()
-  ))->render($ast);
-
-  return $html;
+  return $environment->convert($markdown);
 }
 ```
 
@@ -54,8 +53,9 @@ FBMarkdown currently supports three types of Markdown sources, with plans to exp
 - __User-generated content__: All HTML is disabled, as are links and images regardless of schemes. If links are re-enabled, `rel="nofollow ugc"` will be added to all links.
 
 To make changes to these default settings:
+
 - You may alter the keyset of allowed URI schemes by calling the Parser function `setAllowedURISchemes()`.
-- You may enable embedded HTML by calling the Parser function `enableHTML_UNSAFE()`. __N.B.: For complete compatibility with GitHub Flavored Markdown, support for embedded HTML must be enabled.__ 
+- You may enable embedded HTML by calling the Parser function `enableHTML_UNSAFE()`. __N.B.: For complete compatibility with GitHub Flavored Markdown, support for embedded HTML must be enabled.__
 - You may disable image filtering by calling the Renderer function `disableImageFiltering()`.
 - You may add `rel="nofollow ugc"` to all links by calling the Renderer function `addNoFollowUGCAllLinks()`.
 
@@ -89,10 +89,11 @@ Extend `Facebook\Markdown\Inlines\Inline` or a subclass, and pass your classname
 `$render_ctx->getInlineContext()->prependInlineTypes(...)`.
 
 There are then several approaches to rendering:
- - instantiate your subclass, and add support for it to a custom renderer
- - instantiate your subclass, and make it implement the `Facebook\Markdown\RenderableAsHTML` interface
- - if it could be replaced with several existing inlines, return a
-   `Facebook\Markdown\Inlines\InlineSequence`, then you won't need to extend the renderer.
+
+- instantiate your subclass, and add support for it to a custom renderer
+- instantiate your subclass, and make it implement the `Facebook\Markdown\RenderableAsHTML` interface
+- if it could be replaced with several existing inlines, return a
+  `Facebook\Markdown\Inlines\InlineSequence`, then you won't need to extend the renderer.
 
 #### Blocks
 
@@ -100,16 +101,40 @@ You will need to implement the `Facebook\Markdown\UnparsedBlocks\BlockProducer`
 to `$render_ctx->getBlockContext()->prependBlockTypes(...)`.
 
 There are then several approaches to rendering:
- - create a subclass of `Block`, and add support for it to a custom renderer
- - create a subclass of `Block`, and make it implement the `Facebook\Markdown\RenderableAsHTML` interface
- - if it could be replaced with several existing blocks, return a
-   `Facebook\Markdown\Blocks\BlockSequence`
- - if it could be replaced with a paragraph of inlines, return a `Facebook\Markdown\Blocks\InlineSequenceBlock`
+
+- create a subclass of `Block`, and add support for it to a custom renderer
+- create a subclass of `Block`, and make it implement the `Facebook\Markdown\RenderableAsHTML` interface
+- if it could be replaced with several existing blocks, return a
+  `Facebook\Markdown\Blocks\BlockSequence`
+- if it could be replaced with a paragraph of inlines, return a `Facebook\Markdown\Blocks\InlineSequenceBlock`
 
 ### Transforming The AST
 
 Extend `Facebook\Markdown\RenderFilter`, and pass it to `$render_ctx->appendFilters(...)`.
 
+## FBMarkdown Environment
+
+FBMarkdown provides a `Environment` class which acts as a glow between the parser and renderer.
+
+By default, FBMarkdown ships with 2 functions which allow you to create an HTML environment, and unsafe HTML environment.
+
+- `Facebook\Markdown\html_environment`
+- `Facebook\Markdown\unsafe_html_environment`
+
+The `Environment` makes it easy to extend the parser, and renderer via the `Plugin` system.
+
+```hack
+$environment = Markdown\html_environment();
+
+$environment->use(new UserMentionPlugin());
+$environment->user(new ExternalLinkPlugin());
+
+$html = $environment->convert($markdown);
+```
+
+each plugin must extend the `Facebook\Markdown\Plugin` class, and can provide
+multiple [block producers](#blocks), [inline types](#inlines), and [render filters](#transforming-the-ast).
+
 ### Examples
 
 The Hack and HHVM documentation uses most of these approaches; see:
diff --git a/src/Environment.php b/src/Environment.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bed5275
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Environment.php
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+<?hh // strict
+/*
+ *  Copyright (c) 2004-present, Facebook, Inc.
+ *  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ *  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ *  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *
+ */
+
+namespace Facebook\Markdown;
+
+final class Environment<T> {
+  public function __construct(
+    private ParserContext $parser,
+    private RenderContext $context,
+    private Renderer<T> $renderer,
+  ) {}
+
+  public function getParser(): ParserContext {
+    return $this->parser;
+  }
+
+  public function getContext(): RenderContext {
+    return $this->context;
+  }
+
+  public function getRenderer(): Renderer<T> {
+    return $this->renderer;
+  }
+
+  public function getInlineContext(): Inlines\Context {
+    return $this->parser->getInlineContext();
+  }
+
+  public function getBlockContext(): UnparsedBlocks\Context {
+    return $this->parser->getBlockContext();
+  }
+
+  public function getFilters(): Container<RenderFilter> {
+    return $this->context->getFilters();
+  }
+
+  public function use(Plugin $plugin): void {
+    $this->getBlockContext()
+      ->prependBlockTypes(...$plugin->getBlockProducers());
+    $this->getInlineContext()
+      ->prependInlineTypes(...$plugin->getInlineTypes());
+    $this->getContext()->appendFilters(...$plugin->getRenderFilters());
+  }
+
+  public function parse(string $markdown): ASTNode {
+    return parse($this->parser, $markdown);
+  }
+
+  public function render(ASTNode $markdown): T {
+    return $this->renderer->render($markdown);
+  }
+
+  public function convert(string $markdown): T {
+    return $this->render($this->parse($markdown));
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/Plugin.php b/src/Plugin.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ec543d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Plugin.php
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?hh // strict
+/*
+ *  Copyright (c) 2004-present, Facebook, Inc.
+ *  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ *  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ *  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *
+ */
+
+namespace Facebook\Markdown;
+
+abstract class Plugin {
+  /**
+   * @see Facebook\Markdown\RenderContext::appendFilters()
+   */
+  public function getRenderFilters(): Container<RenderFilter> {
+    return vec[];
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @see Facebook\Markdown\Inlines\Context::prependInlineTypes()
+   */
+  public function getInlineTypes(): Container<classname<Inlines\Inline>> {
+    return vec[];
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @see Facebook\Markdown\UnparsedBlocks\Context::prependBlockTypes()
+   */
+  public function getBlockProducers(
+  ): Container<classname<UnparsedBlocks\BlockProducer>> {
+    return vec[];
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/html_environment.php b/src/html_environment.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..64d399f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/html_environment.php
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?hh // strict
+/*
+ *  Copyright (c) 2004-present, Facebook, Inc.
+ *  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ *  This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ *  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *
+ */
+
+namespace Facebook\Markdown;
+
+function html_environment(): Environment<string> {
+  $parser = new ParserContext();
+  $context = new RenderContext();
+  $renderer = new HTMLRenderer($context);
+
+  return new Environment($parser, $context, $renderer);
+}
+
+function unsafe_html_environment(): Environment<string> {
+  $parser = new ParserContext();
+  $context = new RenderContext();
+  $renderer = new HTMLRenderer($context);
+
+  $parser->enableHTML_UNSAFE();
+
+  return new Environment($parser, $context, $renderer);
+}