diff --git a/errext/cancellable_context.go b/errext/cancellable_context.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1453013615dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/errext/cancellable_context.go
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package errext
+
+import (
+	"context"
+)
+
+// cancelReasonKey is the key used to store both the cancel function for the
+// context, and the reason it  of an executor. This is a work around to avoid
+// excessive changes for the ability of nested functions to cancel the passed
+// context and provide the reason they did so.
+type cancelAndReasonKey struct{}
+
+type cancelAndReasonCtxVal struct {
+	cancel context.CancelFunc
+	reason error
+}
+
+// CancellableContext returns context.Context that can be cancelled by calling
+// CancelContextWithError. It is used to initialize contexts that will be passed
+// to executors.
+//
+// This allows executors to globally halt any executions that uses this context.
+// Example use case is when a script calls test.abort().
+//
+// TODO: maybe make this into a custom type on top of context.Context? A
+// k6-specific interface that has an extra method to cancel it with a reason?
+func CancellableContext(ctx context.Context) (context.Context, func() error) {
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
+	val := &cancelAndReasonCtxVal{cancel: cancel}
+	reasonGetter := func() error {
+		return val.reason
+	}
+	return context.WithValue(ctx, cancelAndReasonKey{}, val), reasonGetter
+}
+
+// CancelContextWithError cancels the executor context found in ctx and saves
+// the given error inside.
+//
+// ctx can only be a context created by the execution.Scheduler and passed to an
+// executor's Run() method, this function will panic for any other context
+func CancelContextWithError(ctx context.Context, err error) {
+	x := ctx.Value(cancelAndReasonKey{})
+	if x == nil {
+		panic("invalid context value, not cancellable")
+	}
+	v, ok := x.(*cancelAndReasonCtxVal)
+	if !ok {
+		panic("invalid context value, missing cancel reason and function")
+	}
+	v.reason = err
+	v.cancel()
+}
diff --git a/execution/scheduler.go b/execution/scheduler.go
index a2e7214330ef..a2d1386f283a 100644
--- a/execution/scheduler.go
+++ b/execution/scheduler.go
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import (
 
 	"go.k6.io/k6/errext"
 	"go.k6.io/k6/lib"
-	"go.k6.io/k6/lib/executor"
 	"go.k6.io/k6/metrics"
 	"go.k6.io/k6/ui/pb"
 )
@@ -451,7 +450,7 @@ func (e *Scheduler) Run(globalCtx, runCtx context.Context, engineOut chan<- metr
 	// this context effectively stopping all executions.
 	//
 	// This is for addressing test.abort().
-	execCtx := executor.Context(runSubCtx)
+	execCtx, getAbortReason := errext.CancellableContext(runSubCtx)
 	for _, exec := range e.executors {
 		go e.runExecutor(execCtx, runResults, engineOut, exec)
 	}
@@ -479,7 +478,7 @@ func (e *Scheduler) Run(globalCtx, runCtx context.Context, engineOut chan<- metr
 			return err
 		}
 	}
-	if err := executor.CancelReason(execCtx); err != nil && errext.IsInterruptError(err) {
+	if err := getAbortReason(); err != nil && errext.IsInterruptError(err) {
 		interrupted = true
 		return err
 	}
diff --git a/lib/executor/helpers.go b/lib/executor/helpers.go
index 13b5df97cdbb..c205f9cf0fa2 100644
--- a/lib/executor/helpers.go
+++ b/lib/executor/helpers.go
@@ -56,56 +56,12 @@ func validateStages(stages []Stage) []error {
 	return errors
 }
 
-// cancelKey is the key used to store the cancel function for the context of an
-// executor. This is a work around to avoid excessive changes for the ability of
-// nested functions to cancel the passed context.
-type cancelKey struct{}
-
-type cancelExec struct {
-	cancel context.CancelFunc
-	reason error
-}
-
-// Context returns context.Context that can be cancelled by calling
-// CancelExecutorContext. Use this to initialize context that will be passed to
-// executors.
-//
-// This allows executors to globally halt any executions that uses this context.
-// Example use case is when a script calls test.abort().
-func Context(ctx context.Context) context.Context {
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
-	return context.WithValue(ctx, cancelKey{}, &cancelExec{cancel: cancel})
-}
-
-// cancelExecutorContext cancels executor context found in ctx, ctx can be a
-// child of a context that was created with Context function.
-func cancelExecutorContext(ctx context.Context, err error) {
-	if x := ctx.Value(cancelKey{}); x != nil {
-		if v, ok := x.(*cancelExec); ok {
-			v.reason = err
-			v.cancel()
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// CancelReason returns a reason the executor context was cancelled. This will
-// return nil if ctx is not an executor context(ctx or any of its parents was
-// never created by Context function).
-func CancelReason(ctx context.Context) error {
-	if x := ctx.Value(cancelKey{}); x != nil {
-		if v, ok := x.(*cancelExec); ok {
-			return v.reason
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
 // handleInterrupt returns true if err is InterruptError and if so it
 // cancels the executor context passed with ctx.
 func handleInterrupt(ctx context.Context, err error) bool {
 	if err != nil {
 		if errext.IsInterruptError(err) {
-			cancelExecutorContext(ctx, err)
+			errext.CancelContextWithError(ctx, err)
 			return true
 		}
 	}