Hey everyone, I can't get agent automations in prefect cloud to work. When I setup an agent automation, it asks me to create or choose an agent config. I tried to pass on the name of this config to my agent on startup with the

--agent-config-id

flag, however that does not work because the

prefect agent docker start

command expects that flag to contain an id. Can anyone help me with that?

Hi @Bastian Röhrig, the process is described in the docs here. 1. First, you have to go to the automations tab in the UI and set up an agent configuration as part of your Automation. 2. You’ll see the

agent config id

that is provided once your automation is created. This is a UUID. 3. You can then start your agent and pass this UUID to the agent start command:

prefect agent docker start --agent-config-id your-uuid

Thank you, that worked 🙂 Follow up question: Is there a way I can delete agent configs in the ui? (I created several for testing purposes)

Nice work! I believe if you delete it this way, the config ID will be gone as well, since it seems to be coupled with the automation.

I just tried that, but I can still select the old superfluous agent configs when I create a new agent automation. That is not really a problem for me though.

Gotcha. You can probably do it using GraphQL mutation on

agent_config

schema.

Thank you for the GraphQL hint, I ended up deleting my old agent configs like that.