diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4f48506b5af4f..cd6553214280e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5607,6 +5607,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "regex",
  "semver",
  "termcolor",
+ "toml",
  "walkdir",
 ]
 
@@ -5690,9 +5691,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "toml"
-version = "0.5.7"
+version = "0.5.10"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "75cf45bb0bef80604d001caaec0d09da99611b3c0fd39d3080468875cdb65645"
+checksum = "1333c76748e868a4d9d1017b5ab53171dfd095f70c712fdb4653a406547f598f"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/Cargo.toml b/src/tools/tidy/Cargo.toml
index 5f5ae3a65efa8..5d5d4c1e6461f 100644
--- a/src/tools/tidy/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ walkdir = "2"
 ignore = "0.4.18"
 semver = "1.0.14"
 termcolor = "1.1.3"
+toml = "0.5.10"
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "rust-tidy"
diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/src/lib.rs b/src/tools/tidy/src/lib.rs
index 15c641d748c8e..a4957b7ebc160 100644
--- a/src/tools/tidy/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/src/lib.rs
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ pub mod pal;
 pub mod primitive_docs;
 pub mod style;
 pub mod target_specific_tests;
+pub mod triagebot;
 pub mod ui_tests;
 pub mod unit_tests;
 pub mod unstable_book;
diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/src/main.rs b/src/tools/tidy/src/main.rs
index a5685ba7c942c..6c535643ddaaf 100644
--- a/src/tools/tidy/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/src/main.rs
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ fn main() {
 
         check!(x_version, &root_path, &cargo);
 
+        check!(triagebot, &root_path);
+
         let collected = {
             drain_handles(&mut handles);
 
diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/src/triagebot.rs b/src/tools/tidy/src/triagebot.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2d9c7e22e5d68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/src/triagebot.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+use std::path::Path;
+use toml::Value;
+
+pub fn check(path: &Path, bad: &mut bool) {
+    let filename = path.join("triagebot.toml");
+    let contents = std::fs::read_to_string(filename).unwrap();
+
+    let conf = contents.parse::<Value>();
+    match conf {
+        Ok(_) => {}
+        Err(_err) => {
+            tidy_error!(bad, "triagebot.toml does not have valid TOML format")
+        }
+    }
+}