diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index dba162ff1cee44..b8edb76a36f853 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@
 		{ "path": "storybook" },
 		{ "path": "test/e2e" },
 		{ "path": "test/storybook-playwright" },
-		{ "path": "test/performance" }
+		{ "path": "test/performance" },
+		{ "path": "widgets" }
 	],
 	"files": []
 }
diff --git a/widgets/package.json b/widgets/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..408477f32d355a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/widgets/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{
+	"name": "@wordpress/widgets-app",
+	"version": "0.0.0",
+	"description": "Application widgets surfaced by the Gutenberg editor.",
+	"private": true,
+	"author": "The WordPress Contributors",
+	"license": "GPL-2.0-or-later",
+	"keywords": [
+		"wordpress",
+		"gutenberg",
+		"widgets"
+	],
+	"homepage": "https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/HEAD/widgets",
+	"repository": {
+		"type": "git",
+		"url": "git+https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg.git",
+		"directory": "widgets"
+	},
+	"bugs": {
+		"url": "https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues"
+	},
+	"dependencies": {
+		"@wordpress/core-data": "file:../packages/core-data",
+		"@wordpress/data": "file:../packages/data",
+		"@wordpress/dataviews": "file:../packages/dataviews",
+		"@wordpress/date": "file:../packages/date",
+		"@wordpress/element": "file:../packages/element",
+		"@wordpress/html-entities": "file:../packages/html-entities",
+		"@wordpress/i18n": "file:../packages/i18n",
+		"@wordpress/icons": "file:../packages/icons",
+		"@wordpress/ui": "file:../packages/ui",
+		"clsx": "^2.1.1"
+	},
+	"publishConfig": {
+		"access": "public"
+	}
+}
diff --git a/widgets/tsconfig.json b/widgets/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..4d97b5cc06e6fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/widgets/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+	"$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/tsconfig.json",
+	"extends": "../tsconfig.base.json",
+	"compilerOptions": {
+		"rootDir": ".",
+		"types": [ "react", "style-imports", "react-css-custom-properties" ]
+	},
+	"references": [
+		{ "path": "../packages/core-data" },
+		{ "path": "../packages/data" },
+		{ "path": "../packages/dataviews" },
+		{ "path": "../packages/date" },
+		{ "path": "../packages/element" },
+		{ "path": "../packages/html-entities" },
+		{ "path": "../packages/i18n" },
+		{ "path": "../packages/icons" },
+		{ "path": "../packages/ui" }
+	],
+	"include": [ "**/*.ts", "**/*.tsx" ],
+	"exclude": [ "**/test/**", "**/build/**", "**/build-types/**" ]
+}