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I’m wanting to make sure I understand best practices for using secrets between tasks. I see in the documentation that it is preferred to use a secret task passed to other tasks. How does this interact with input caching and checkpointing?

I want to make sure I handle things correctly so credentials don’t get leaked.

<https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/23f541b15de35d95a533cf706bd9cdb7d672bc64/src/prefect/tasks/secrets/base.py#L6-L27|This is the code> for that