diff --git a/Readme.org b/Readme.org
index 449e6e1..dcd7e30 100644
--- a/Readme.org
+++ b/Readme.org
@@ -481,8 +481,6 @@ Note: this section will not show the status of each item unless you are viewing
 Note: this section only tracks the state of incomplete TODO items. Having everything on here would be cluttered.
 
 ** TODO Pre-alpha tasks
-- paths function
-- add-path function
 - Shell module
   - Only loadable via POSIX config var
   - Overload Load function to hook into this lib
diff --git a/snippets/userlib-tests.rls b/snippets/userlib-tests.rls
index d342081..cb93c5d 100644
--- a/snippets/userlib-tests.rls
+++ b/snippets/userlib-tests.rls
@@ -67,6 +67,21 @@
      (quote
        (not (contains? (1 2 3) 4))))
 
+   ('get-paths properly splits path into segments'
+     (quote
+       (let ((PATH "/seg1:/seg2")
+             (split-path (get-paths)))
+         (and (eq? (len split-path) 2)
+              (contains? split-path "/seg1")
+              (contains? split-path "/seg2")))))
+
+   ('add-path properly adds a new path segment to PATH'
+     (quote
+       (let ((PATH "/seg1:/seg2")
+             (new-path "/seg3"))
+         (add-path new-path)
+         (contains? (get-paths) new-path))))
+
      ;; add more test cases here
    ))
 
diff --git a/snippets/userlib.rls b/snippets/userlib.rls
index ae70164..3a16a7b 100644
--- a/snippets/userlib.rls
+++ b/snippets/userlib.rls
@@ -100,3 +100,12 @@ Returns true if the list contains the element.'
         (set (q found) true)
         (set (q list-iter) (pop remaining)))))
   found))
+
+(def get-paths
+'returns each individual directory in PATH'
+() (split PATH ':'))
+
+(def add-path
+'adds a directory to PATH'
+(path) (set (q PATH)
+         (concat PATH ':' path)))
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