Potentially ambiguous 'kotlin.coroutine.coroutineContext' usage

Reports usages of kotlin.coroutine.coroutineContext property in code that has a dependency on kotlinx.coroutines library.

When both kotlin.coroutine.coroutineContext and kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope.coroutineContext can be present in the code, it can lead to confusion and potential bugs.

The kotlinx.coroutines library provides currentCoroutineContext() function as a clearer alternative that should be preferred even when there is no explicit clash.

See the documentation for kotlin.coroutine.coroutineContext and kotlinx.coroutines.currentCoroutineContext for more details.

Example:

  suspend fun getCurrentJob(): Job? {
    return coroutineContext[Job]
  }

After the quick-fix is applied:

  suspend fun getCurrentJob(): Job? {
    return currentCoroutineContext()[Job]
  }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PreferCurrentCoroutineContextToCoroutineContext

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Kotlin | Coroutine inspections

Inspection ID: PreferCurrentCoroutineContextToCoroutineContext

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PreferCurrentCoroutineContextToCoroutineContext

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025