diff --git a/rust/src/automerge.udl b/rust/src/automerge.udl
index 7d9703aa..6797afbd 100644
--- a/rust/src/automerge.udl
+++ b/rust/src/automerge.udl
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 namespace automerge {
     ObjId root();
+
+    boolean valid_change(sequence<u8> bytes);
+
 };
 
 [Custom]
diff --git a/rust/src/change.rs b/rust/src/change.rs
index 982b87ca..db337ea9 100644
--- a/rust/src/change.rs
+++ b/rust/src/change.rs
@@ -41,3 +41,8 @@ pub fn decode_change(bytes: Vec<u8>) -> Result<Change, DecodeChangeError> {
         .map(Change::from)
         .map_err(DecodeChangeError::from)
 }
+
+pub fn valid_change(bytes: Vec<u8>) -> bool {
+    let x = decode_change(bytes);
+    return x.is_ok();
+}
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diff --git a/rust/src/changeset.rs b/rust/src/changeset.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5ad9105c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/src/changeset.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+//use super::UniffiCustomTypeConverter;
+use automerge as am;
+use am::Change;
+
+pub struct ChangeSet(Vec<Change>);
+
+
+#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+pub enum DecodeChangeSetError {
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Internal(#[from] am::LoadChangeError),
+}
+
+impl ChangeSet {
+    pub fn new() -> Self {
+        Self(Vec::new())
+    }
+
+    pub fn decode(bytes: Vec<u8>) -> Result<Self, DecodeChangeSetError> {
+        // let ac = automerge::AutoCommit::load(bytes.as_slice())?;
+        // Ok(Doc(RwLock::new(ac)))
+        let result_vector: Vec<Change> = Vec::new();
+
+        // example of Parsing a change from bytes:
+        let _change = am::Change::try_from(bytes.as_slice())
+            .map(Change::from)
+            .map_err(DecodeChangeSetError::from);
+    
+        let x = ChangeSet(result_vector);
+        return Ok(x);    
+
+    // storage is 'private' - code replicated from load_incremental_log_patches in Autocommit.rs
+    // let changes = match am::storage::load::load_changes(storage::parse::Input::new(data)) {
+    //     load::LoadedChanges::Complete(c) => c,
+    //     load::LoadedChanges::Partial { error, loaded, .. } => {
+    //         tracing::warn!(successful_chunks=loaded.len(), err=?error, "partial load");
+    //         loaded
+    //     }
+    // };
+
+    }
+}
+
+impl Default for ChangeSet {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self::new()
+    }
+}
+
+// The following methods are for converting types from the Automerge module
+// impl From<Cursor> for am::Cursor {
+//     fn from(value: Cursor) -> Self {
+//         am::Cursor::try_from(value.0).unwrap()
+//     }
+// }
+
+// impl From<am::Cursor> for Cursor {
+//     fn from(value: am::Cursor) -> Self {
+//         Cursor(value.to_bytes())
+//     }
+// }
+
+// impl UniffiCustomTypeConverter for Cursor {
+//     type Builtin = Vec<u8>;
+
+//     fn into_custom(val: Self::Builtin) -> uniffi::Result<Self>
+//     where
+//         Self: Sized,
+//     {
+//         Ok(Self(val))
+//     }
+
+//     fn from_custom(obj: Self) -> Self::Builtin {
+//         obj.0
+//     }
+// }
diff --git a/rust/src/lib.rs b/rust/src/lib.rs
index 6733f0e9..98ea3d05 100644
--- a/rust/src/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/src/lib.rs
@@ -24,3 +24,5 @@ mod sync_state;
 use sync_state::{DecodeSyncStateError, SyncState};
 mod value;
 use value::Value;
+mod change;
+use change::valid_change;