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Hey all, I understand that task parameters are now only shown as types in the prefect UI, without actual concrete values.

How can I configure it such, that actual values are shown, like for flow runs?

Or is this just a problem of prefect 2 and will change with prefect 3?

hi <@U04QCT55TSQ> - task run parameters are not stored anywhere in the API by design

so you'd need to selectively expose things as desired with logs or artifacts

OK, I assume that is related to the hybrid model?

Designed such that only task meta data is exposed by default?

somewhat! its mostly security (often lots of PII in task run parameters) and the fact that we don't want to require that task run parameters be JSON serializable, like for example a sqlite client

I have one situation, where it would be neat to have that information, but on the other hand it could as well be exposed via artifacts :thinking_face:

Can I create task name descriptions based on parameters?

that would probably solve that issue, such that the UI becomes more informative / faster to navigate

like this?
```In [1]: from prefect import task

In [2]: @task(task_run_name="fetch from {table}")
   ...: def select_from_table(table: str):
   ...:     pass

In [3]: select_from_table("USERS")
14:00:08.354 | INFO    | Task run 'fetch from USERS' - Finished in state Completed()```