An alternative would be to instead use this code in

register_pipelines

(which is how the config loader is instantiated internally):

import settings 
config_loader_class = settings.CONFIG_LOADER_CLASS
config_loader_class(
    conf_source=str(self._project_path / settings.CONF_SOURCE),
    env=env,
    runtime_params=extra_params,
    **settings.CONFIG_LOADER_ARGS,
)

To get this working fully you still need to get

env

and

extra_params

into

register_pipelines

. I think the cleanest way to do that is again through the

after_context_created

hook, but in theory you could just directly extract it from the CLI arguments if you always run kedro that way.