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Hey everyone,
I'm working on a project where I need to install additional dependencies in a Prefect worker before deploying some flows. I haven't been able to find any documentation on how to do this. Has anyone dealt with this before or know how to do it?

I am not sure what your setup is, but if you have a prefect.yaml specifying your deployments, then you can place something like this at the top of that yaml file:

```pull:
- prefect.deployments.steps.set_working_directory:
    directory: /work
- prefect.deployments.steps.run_shell_script:
    script: sh my-setup-script.sh
    stream_output: true
    expand_env_vars: true```


Other steps are also available (<https://docs.prefect.io/latest/api-ref/prefect/deployments/steps/utility/>)

You can also configure your deployments to pull or build a docker image if that floats your boat.

See <https://docs.prefect.io/latest/guides/prefect-deploy/#creating-work-pool-based-deployments-with-prefectyaml>