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Yes, you can add additional arguments to a function that has a task decorator. However, these arguments should be inputs that your task needs to run. For example, if your task needs to process a file, you could add a

file_path

argument to your function. Here's an example:

python
from prefect import task

@task
def process_file(file_path: str):
    # Your code here to process the file
    pass

In this example,

file_path

is an additional argument to the

process_file

function. When you run this task, you would provide the

file_path

argument like so:

python
process_file.run(file_path="/path/to/your/file")

Remember, though, that tasks are meant to be self-contained units of work. If your task depends on some external state, it's generally better to pass that state in as an argument, rather than relying on it being available in some global scope. Also, keep in mind that Prefect won't track task execution in your Prefect backend if you call the task function directly. You won't be able to use features such as retries with this function call. All tasks must be called from within a flow. Tasks may not be called from other tasks.