Kotlin Context Parameters in Practice

--- title: "Kotlin Context Parameters: Less Boilerplate, Clearer Code" published: true description: "Kotlin 2.2 context parameters eliminate dependency threading and cut DI boilerplate in KMP. Three production patterns and essential migration gotchas." tags: kotlin, android, architecture, mobile canonical_url: https://blog.mvp-factory.com/kotlin-context-parameters-less-boilerplate-clearer-code --- ## What We're Building If you've threaded a transaction or auth token through six layers of function parameters, you already know the pain. Today I'll walk you through three production patterns using Kotlin 2.2's context parameters that eliminate manual dependency threading, scope database transactions without `ThreadLocal` hacks, and propagate auth context through clean architecture layers. In one of our production KMP modules with ~80 use-case functions, migrating to context parameters eliminated roughly a third of the dependency-forwarding boilerplate. Let me show you a pattern I use in ev