diff --git a/.phpcs.xml b/.phpcs.xml
index 72dd231..77a35e5 100644
--- a/.phpcs.xml
+++ b/.phpcs.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
         but without the MissingNamespace sniff.
     </description>
 
+    <!--
+        Run on current working directory by default
+    -->
+    <file>.</file>
+
     <!--
         Exclude _build/ and vendor/ dirs as well as minified JavaScript files
     -->
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index b849472..ca6f0d8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ Pico uses the [PSR-2 Coding Standard](http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/) as defi
 
 For historical reasons we don't use formal namespaces. Markdown files in the `content-sample` folder (the inline documentation) must follow a hard limit of 80 characters line length.
 
-It is recommended to check your code using [PHP_CodeSniffer](https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer) using the `PSR2` standard using the following command:
+It is recommended to check your code using [PHP_CodeSniffer](https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer) using Pico's `.phpcs.xml` standard. Use the following command:
 
-    $ ./bin/phpcs --standard=PSR2 [file(s)]
+    $ ./vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=.phpcs.xml [file]...
 
-With this command you can specify a file or folder to limit which files it will check or omit that argument altogether, in which case the current directory is checked.
+With this command you can specify a file or folder to limit which files it will check or omit that argument altogether, in which case the current working directory is checked.
 
 ### Keep documentation in sync