Hi all, I'm Jay and am evaluating Prefect for orchestrating computational pipelines. Can someone please point me to documentation that outlines how Prefect writes the flow's state to some xml or json that can be inspected before, during, after the flow has been run/executed?

Hello and welcome to Prefect! 🙂 Prefect uses FlowRunner, which handles the state of the Flow. You can see more information in the API reference for FlowRunner.

The flow states are all available via our GraphQL API so you can query for live state information before/during/after execution.

Welcome!