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I am still learning Prefect.  I recently linked my local development to cloud and performed my first deployment of a flow on Cloud; small job, scheduled 1x/day.  I am writing a new flow, and previously I would use `python myflow.py` to run my script locally after starting the server. This time, the run wasn't local, but on the cloud.

My q:  how I can run my script locally before actually "moving" it to the cloud.  I had not yet deployed this flow, so this one caught me off guard.

Once you've logged into Prefect Cloud, even local flow runs will be tracked in your Cloud workspace

I imagine that's what happened here: you logged in so you could create deployments, and subsequent local runs of this new flow are appearing in the cloud UI. That's expected! Any place a flow is run that's authed to a cloud workspace will send flow run data to that workspace

Thanks for the reply, especially on a weekend.  Is my "workflow" off, as I am both writing bits locally and then pushing to Cloud in order to deploy.  I assumed that until I deployed the flow programmatically, I would need the local server to fire the run.  It's not intuitive that a flow that has yet to be deployed fires on Cloud, at least to me.