Resource connections

If you have a snap-in with many cmdlets that connect and talk to a resource, what is the recommended way to pass the connection along? There is a cmdlet connect-myresource that takes a machine name and credentials and connects to the remote application. Then there are many cmdlets to act against that connection. so some possibilities are: 1. have a connection named parameter and/or positional 0 and require user to supply for every cmdlet $connection = connect-myresource -server xxxx get-myobject $connection -id xxxx | delete-myobject2 $connection -id $_.object2id the problem is i’d like to not require any connection and if the cmdlet does not have a connection sent to it then it should automatically try to connect to the local machine I could still do it this way but the user might forget to send the connection and have undesirable results... $connection = connect-myresource -server xxxx get-myobject $connection -id xxxx | delete-myobject2 -id $_....