If so, and putting aside the 'how am I retrieving this data in the first place' question for a second, you can use a bit of middleware to add the user information to the request object and then reference it from context inside your mutation resolver.

The approach I am using currently is thus:

(1) Send JWT to GQL Server from client; (2) Decode/Verify/Etc. JWT using a bit of Express Middleware; (3) Assuming that I have a valid JWT (one claim of which is the user's ID), I append the ID to the request object at 'req.user' and call next() (4) Then, when instantiating my GraphQL server I add the following to the context property: { ..., user: req.user ? req.user : Promise.resolve(null), ... } (5) Then, I can reference 'context.user' anywhere in my resolvers.