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+# Authorizer
+
+The Authorizer is Remix Auth's built in way to perform authorization on a per route basis. It uses rules that you provide to protect specific routes.
+
+## Rules
+
+A rule is a function that recieves the loader arguments (request, params, and optionally context), a `User` from the `Authenticator`, and optionally additional data.
+
+A rule should return a promise resolving to a boolean value indicating whether or not the user is authorized. Throwing an error from within your rules will be an uncaught exception unless you catch it yourself.
+
+You can create multiple rules for different scenarios and rules can either be global or related only to specific routes.
+
+Both global and route specific rules are optional.
+
+### Global Rules
+
+Global rules are applied to the `Authenticator` instance when you create it (see [usage](#usage)). These rules are checked on every call to `authorize`.
+
+### Route Specific Rules
+
+Route specific rules are selectively applied each time you call `authorize`.
+
+### Options for handling Unauthorized Users
+
+The call to `authorize` accepts either the loader args or action args as its first argument and an options object as its second argument. The options are as follows:
+
+```ts
+  raise: "error" | "redirect" | "response",
+  failureRedirect?: string,
+  rules: RuleFunction<User, Data>[]
+```
+
+The `raise` option dictates the behavior when a user is unauthorized. "error" will throw an error, "response" will throw a json response with a message and a 401 status code, and "redirect" will redirect to the `failureRedirect` provided (if you select "redirect" you must provide a failureRedirect value).
+
+The default value of `raise` is "response".
+
+#### Error & Response Messages
+
+If the user is not authenticated at all then the error message is "Not authenticated". If a specific rule indicates the user is unauthorized (by returning false) then the error message will be "Forbidden by policy {ruleName}" (with ruleName being the name of the rule function, or "Forbidden" if an arrow function is used).
+
+## Setup
+
+To use it you need to import it first, you may want to create it alongside the `Authenticator` instance or in a separate file that imports the `Authenticator` instance.
+
+```ts
+import { Authenticator } from "remix-auth";
+import { sessionStorage } from "~/session.server";
+
+type User = { id: string; name: string; email: string; onboarding: boolean };
+
+export let authenticator = new Authenticator<User>(sessionStorage);
+
+export let authorizer = new Authorizer(authenticator, [
+  // This is a global rule, applied to every call to `authenticate`
+  // Global rules are optional
+  async function isOnboarded({ user }) {
+    return user.onboarding;
+  },
+]);
+```
+
+You do not have to provide any global rules and the only check that the authorizer will perform is a call to `authenticator.isAuthenticated`.
+
+The `User` type parameter provided to the Authenticator constructor defines the type of value of the `user` argument provided to each of your rule functions.
+
+> The Authenticator constructor takes two type parameters Authenticator<User, Data>. You do not need to provide either, however if you provide a type for User you should also provide a type for Data otherwise it will be considered `unknown`.
+
+## Usage
+
+In any of your route files you can import the authorizer instance to use in a loader or action. If the user is authorized to access the route or perform the action then the call to `authorize` will return the user.
+
+With only global rules (or no rules).
+
+```ts
+import { type LoaderArgs, json } from "@remix-run/node";
+import { authorizer } from "~/auth.server"; // import our authorizer
+
+export let loader: LoaderFunction = async (args: LoaderArgs) => {
+  // authorize calls `authenticator.isAuthenticated` under the hood
+  let user = await authorizer.authorize(args);
+  // At this point we know the user is authorized based on the global rules
+  return json({});
+};
+```
+
+With a route specific rule (and all global rules if they exist)
+
+```ts
+export let loader: LoaderFunction = async (args: LoaderArgs) => {
+  //
+  let user = await authorizer.authorize(args, {
+    rules: [
+      async function isNotAdmin({ user }) {
+        return user.role !== "admin";
+      },
+    ],
+  });
+  // At this point we know the user is authorized based on the global rules and the route specific rule applied above
+  return json({});
+};
+```
+
+## Advanced Usage
+
+### Providing additional data to rules
+
+Rules can accept additional data provided at the time of calling `authorize`. A `data` property is provided along with the `user` property to each of your rule functions.
+
+```ts
+// rule function
+async function isAdminWithNumber({
+  user,
+  data,
+}: {
+  user: User;
+  data?: number;
+}) {
+  return user.role === "admin";
+}
+
+export let loader: LoaderFunction = async ({ request, params }: LoaderArgs) => {
+  let user = await authorizer.authorize(
+    { request, params, data: 10 },
+    {
+      rules: [isAdminWithNumber],
+    }
+  );
+  return json({});
+};
+```
+
+The type of data is inferred either by the global rules you provide or if none are provided, by the route specific rules applied when calling `authorize`. The type is always unioned with undefined.
+
+Each rule is provided with the same data so the following rule function signatures are incompatible:
+
+```ts
+async function isAdminWithNumber({ data }: { data?: number }) {
+  return user.role === "admin";
+}
+async function isAdminWithString({ data }: { data?: string }) {
+  return user.role === "admin";
+}
+```
+
+Instead they would need to take a union of string | number:
+
+```ts
+async function isAdmin({ data }: { data?: number | string }) {
+  return user.role === "admin";
+}
+```
diff --git a/src/authorizer.ts b/src/authorizer.ts
index 2763781..9e28903 100644
--- a/src/authorizer.ts
+++ b/src/authorizer.ts
@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
-import { LoaderFunction, redirect, json } from "@remix-run/server-runtime";
+import type { DataFunctionArgs } from "@remix-run/server-runtime";
+import { json, redirect } from "@remix-run/server-runtime";
 import { Authenticator } from "./authenticator";
 
-type LoaderArgs = Parameters<LoaderFunction>[0];
-
-type AuthorizeArgs<User, Data> = Omit<RuleContext<User, Data>, "user">;
+/**
+ * Extra data passed to the Authorizer from the loader or action
+ */
+type AuthorizeArgs<Data> = { data?: Data } & Omit<
+  DataFunctionArgs,
+  "context"
+> & {
+    context?: DataFunctionArgs["context"];
+  };
 
-export interface RuleContext<User, Data = unknown> extends LoaderArgs {
+export type RuleContext<User, Data = null> = {
   /**
    * The authenticated user returned by the Authenticator
    */
   user: User;
-  /**
-   * Extra data passed to the Authorizer from the loader or action
-   */
-  data?: Data;
-}
+} & AuthorizeArgs<Data> & { context: DataFunctionArgs["context"] };
 
 /**
  * A Rule is a function that receives the same arguments of a Loader or Action
@@ -24,52 +27,47 @@ export interface RuleContext<User, Data = unknown> extends LoaderArgs {
  * Inside a Rule function you can do any validation to verify a user to continue
  * and return a promise resolving to a boolean value.
  */
-export interface RuleFunction<User, Data = unknown> {
+export interface RuleFunction<User, Data = null> {
   (context: RuleContext<User, Data>): Promise<boolean>;
 }
 
+type AuthorizeOptionsError = {
+  failureRedirect?: never;
+  raise: "error";
+};
+type AuthorizeOptionsResponse = {
+  failureRedirect?: never;
+  raise: "response";
+};
+type AuthorizeOptionsRedirect = {
+  failureRedirect: string;
+  raise: "redirect";
+};
+type AuthorizeOptionsEmpty = {
+  failureRedirect?: never;
+  raise?: never;
+};
+type AuthorizeOptions<U, D> = (
+  | AuthorizeOptionsError
+  | AuthorizeOptionsRedirect
+  | AuthorizeOptionsResponse
+  | AuthorizeOptionsEmpty
+) & { rules?: RuleFunction<U, D>[] };
+
 export class Authorizer<User = unknown, Data = unknown> {
   constructor(
     private authenticator: Authenticator<User>,
     private rules: RuleFunction<User, Data>[] = []
   ) {}
 
-  async authorize(
-    args: AuthorizeArgs<User, Data>,
-    options?: {
-      failureRedirect?: never;
-      raise?: "error";
-      rules?: RuleFunction<User, Data>[];
-    }
-  ): Promise<User>;
-  async authorize(
-    args: AuthorizeArgs<User, Data>,
-    options?: {
-      failureRedirect?: never;
-      raise?: "response";
-      rules?: RuleFunction<User, Data>[];
-    }
-  ): Promise<User>;
-  async authorize(
-    args: AuthorizeArgs<User, Data>,
-    options: {
-      failureRedirect: string;
-      raise: "redirect";
-      rules?: RuleFunction<User, Data>[];
+  async authorize<D extends Data>(
+    args: AuthorizeArgs<D>,
+    { failureRedirect, raise, rules = [] }: AuthorizeOptions<User, D> = {
+      raise: "response",
+      rules: [],
     }
-  ): Promise<User>;
-  async authorize(
-    args: AuthorizeArgs<User, Data>,
-    {
-      failureRedirect,
-      raise = "response",
-      rules = [],
-    }: {
-      failureRedirect?: string;
-      raise?: "error" | "response" | "redirect";
-      rules?: RuleFunction<User, Data>[];
-    } = {}
   ): Promise<User> {
+    if (!raise) raise = "response";
     let user = await this.authenticator.isAuthenticated(args.request);
 
     if (!user) {
@@ -77,15 +75,13 @@ export class Authorizer<User = unknown, Data = unknown> {
         throw json({ message: "Not authenticated." }, { status: 401 });
       }
       if (raise === "redirect") {
-        // @ts-expect-error failureRedirect is a string if raise is redirect
         throw redirect(failureRedirect);
       }
       throw new Error("Not authenticated.");
     }
 
     for (let rule of [...this.rules, ...rules]) {
-      if (await rule({ user, ...args })) continue;
-      // @ts-expect-error failureRedirect is a string if raise is redirect
+      if (await rule({ user, ...args, context: args.context ?? {} })) continue;
       if (raise === "redirect") throw redirect(failureRedirect);
       if (raise === "response") {
         if (!rule.name) throw json({ message: "Forbidden" }, { status: 403 });