diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4e1a194..304a12f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -66,10 +66,9 @@ Then configuration is built from:
 - `PYTHON_ALPHACONF` environment variable may contain a path to load
 - configuration files from configuration directories (using application name)
 - environment variables based on key prefixes,
-  except "BASE" and "PYTHON";
+  except "BASE" and "PYTHON"; \
   if you have a configuration key "abc", all environment variables starting
-  with "ABC_" will be loaded where keys are converted to lower case and "_"
-  to ".": "ABC_HELLO=a" would set "abc.hello=a"
+  with "ABC_" will be loaded, for example "ABC_HELLO=a" would set "abc.hello=a"
 - key-values from the program arguments
 
 Finally, the configuration is fully resolved and logging is configured.
@@ -104,10 +103,11 @@ class MyConf(pydantic.BaseModel):
 
     def build(self):
         # use as a factory pattern to create more complex objects
+        # for example, a connection to the database
         return self.value * 2
 
 # setup the configuration
-alphaconf.setup_configuration(MyConf, path='a')
+alphaconf.setup_configuration(MyConf, prefix='a')
 # read the value
 alphaconf.get('a', MyConf)
 v = alphaconf.get(MyConf)  # because it's registered as a type
@@ -136,9 +136,8 @@ alphaconf.invoke.run(__name__, ns)
 ```
 
 ## Way to 1.0
-- Run function `@alphaconf.inject`
-- Run a specific function `alphaconf.cli.run_module()`:
-  find functions and parse their args
+- Run a specific function `alphaconf my.module.main`:
+  find functions and inject args
 - Install completions for bash `alphaconf --install-autocompletion`
 
 [OmegaConf]: https://omegaconf.readthedocs.io/
diff --git a/alphaconf/inject.py b/alphaconf/inject.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3093d67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alphaconf/inject.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+import inspect
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Callable, Dict, TypeVar
+
+import alphaconf
+
+R = TypeVar('R')
+
+
+@dataclass
+class InjectArgument:
+    name: str
+    verify: bool = False
+    # rtype: type = None  # TODO add type transformer
+
+    def get_value(self, type_spec, required):
+        get_args: dict = {'key': self.name}
+        if type_spec:
+            get_args['type'] = type_spec
+        if not required:
+            get_args['default'] = None
+        value = alphaconf.get(**get_args)
+        return value
+
+
+class Injector:
+    args: Dict[str, InjectArgument]
+    prefix: str
+
+    def __init__(self, prefix: str = ""):
+        if prefix and not prefix.endswith("."):
+            prefix += "."
+        self.prefix = prefix
+        self.args = {}
+
+    def inject(self, name: str, optional, type, resolver):
+        pass
+
+    def decorate(self, func: Callable[..., R]) -> Callable[[], R]:
+        signature = inspect.signature(func)
+
+        def call():
+            args = {}  # TODO {**self.values}
+            for name, iarg in self.args.items():
+                param = signature.parameters.get(name, None)
+                if not param:
+                    if iarg.verify:
+                        raise TypeError("Missing argument", name)
+                    continue
+                arg_type = None
+                if param.annotation is not param.empty and isinstance(param.annotation, type):
+                    arg_type = param.annotation
+                required = param.default is param.empty
+                value = iarg.get_value(arg_type, required)
+                if value is None and not required:
+                    continue
+                args[name] = value
+            return func(**args)
+
+        return call
diff --git a/alphaconf/internal/configuration.py b/alphaconf/internal/configuration.py
index 8da1d1e..ff50048 100644
--- a/alphaconf/internal/configuration.py
+++ b/alphaconf/internal/configuration.py
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ def setup_configuration(
         conf: Union[DictConfig, dict, Any],
         helpers: Dict[str, str] = {},
         *,
-        path: str = "",
+        prefix: str = "",
     ):
         """Add a default configuration
 
@@ -146,10 +146,10 @@ def setup_configuration(
             conf_type = None
         if conf_type:
             # if already registered, set path to None
-            self.__type_path[conf_type] = None if conf_type in self.__type_path else path
+            self.__type_path[conf_type] = None if conf_type in self.__type_path else prefix
             self.__type_value.pop(conf_type, None)
-        if path and not path.endswith('.'):
-            path += "."
+        if prefix and not prefix.endswith('.'):
+            prefix += "."
         if isinstance(conf, str):
             warnings.warn("provide a dict directly", DeprecationWarning)
             created_config = OmegaConf.create(conf)
@@ -157,16 +157,16 @@ def setup_configuration(
                 raise ValueError("The config is not a dict")
             conf = created_config
         if isinstance(conf, DictConfig):
-            config = self.__prepare_dictconfig(conf, path=path)
+            config = self.__prepare_dictconfig(conf, path=prefix)
         else:
-            created_config = self.__prepare_config(conf, path=path)
+            created_config = self.__prepare_config(conf, path=prefix)
             if not isinstance(created_config, DictConfig):
                 raise ValueError("Failed to convert to a DictConfig")
             config = created_config
-        # add path and merge
-        if path:
-            config = self.__add_path(config, path.rstrip("."))
-            helpers = {path + k: v for k, v in helpers.items()}
+        # add prefix and merge
+        if prefix:
+            config = self.__add_prefix(config, prefix.rstrip("."))
+            helpers = {prefix + k: v for k, v in helpers.items()}
         self._merge([config])
         # helpers
         self.helpers.update(**helpers)
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ def __prepare_dictconfig(
                 v = self.__prepare_config(v, path + k + ".")
             if '.' in k:
                 obj.pop(k)
-                sub_configs.append(self.__add_path(v, k))
+                sub_configs.append(self.__add_prefix(v, k))
         if sub_configs:
             obj = cast(DictConfig, OmegaConf.unsafe_merge(obj, *sub_configs))
         return obj
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ def __prepare_pydantic(self, obj, path):
         return None
 
     @staticmethod
-    def __add_path(config: Any, path: str) -> DictConfig:
-        for part in reversed(path.split(".")):
+    def __add_prefix(config: Any, prefix: str) -> DictConfig:
+        for part in reversed(prefix.split(".")):
             config = OmegaConf.create({part: config})
         return config
diff --git a/alphaconf/internal/type_resolvers.py b/alphaconf/internal/type_resolvers.py
index be49a47..1da4f5f 100644
--- a/alphaconf/internal/type_resolvers.py
+++ b/alphaconf/internal/type_resolvers.py
@@ -16,11 +16,7 @@
 """
 
 
-def read_text(value):
-    return Path(value).expanduser().read_text()
-
-
-def parse_bool(value) -> bool:
+def _parse_bool(value) -> bool:
     if isinstance(value, str):
         value = value.strip().lower()
         if value in ('no', 'false', 'n', 'f', 'off', 'none', 'null', 'undefined', '0'):
@@ -29,14 +25,14 @@ def parse_bool(value) -> bool:
 
 
 TYPE_CONVERTER = {
-    bool: parse_bool,
+    bool: _parse_bool,
     datetime.datetime: datetime.datetime.fromisoformat,
     datetime.date: lambda s: datetime.datetime.strptime(s, '%Y-%m-%d').date(),
     datetime.time: datetime.time.fromisoformat,
-    Path: lambda s: Path(s).expanduser(),
+    Path: lambda s: Path(str(s)).expanduser(),
     str: lambda v: str(v),
-    'read_text': read_text,
-    'read_strip': lambda s: read_text(s).strip(),
+    'read_text': lambda s: Path(s).expanduser().read_text(),
+    'read_strip': lambda s: Path(s).expanduser().read_text().strip(),
     'read_bytes': lambda s: Path(s).expanduser().read_bytes(),
 }
 
diff --git a/example-typed.py b/example-typed.py
index ece0717..fc2b1bd 100755
--- a/example-typed.py
+++ b/example-typed.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class MyConfiguration(BaseModel):
     connection: Optional[Conn] = None
 
 
-alphaconf.setup_configuration(MyConfiguration, path="c")
+alphaconf.setup_configuration(MyConfiguration, prefix="c")
 
 
 def main():
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index af22d06..b9a7e56 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 dependencies = [
     "omegaconf>=2",
-    "pydantic>=2",
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 color = ["colorama"]
 dotenv = ["python-dotenv"]
 invoke = ["invoke"]
+pydantic = ["pydantic>=2"]
 toml = ["toml"]
 
 [project.urls]
diff --git a/tests/test_configuration.py b/tests/test_configuration.py
index b9386f0..bca02fb 100644
--- a/tests/test_configuration.py
+++ b/tests/test_configuration.py
@@ -132,5 +132,5 @@ def test_config_setup_dots(config):
 
 
 def test_config_setup_path(config):
-    config.setup_configuration({'test': 954}, path='a.b')
+    config.setup_configuration({'test': 954}, prefix='a.b')
     assert config.get('a.b.test') == 954
diff --git a/tests/test_configuration_typed.py b/tests/test_configuration_typed.py
index 3f1808d..5b55097 100644
--- a/tests/test_configuration_typed.py
+++ b/tests/test_configuration_typed.py
@@ -95,6 +95,6 @@ def test_set_person(config_typed):
 
 
 def test_set_person_type(config_typed):
-    config_typed.setup_configuration(Person(first_name='A', last_name='T'), path='x_person')
+    config_typed.setup_configuration(Person(first_name='A', last_name='T'), prefix='x_person')
     person = config_typed.get(Person)
     assert person.full_name == 'A T'
diff --git a/tests/test_inject.py b/tests/test_inject.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..17f0f2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_inject.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import alphaconf
+from alphaconf.inject import Injector
+
+
+def test_inject():
+    alphaconf.setup_configuration({'a': 5})
+    alphaconf.set_application(alphaconf.Application())
+    v = Injector().inject('a').decorate(lambda a: a + 1)
+    assert v() == 6