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Hi, how can I kick off an agentless flow run on cloud backend via python API? The equivalent of  `prefect run --execute` . I was going to do `ShellTask("prefect run --execute").run()` but thought there might be another way. Maybe `create_flow_run`?

It’s quite complicated but you can try the <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/master/src/prefect/cli/run.py#L718-L732|execute_flow_run_in_subprocess>  function here. Your method might be easier to get running

How do I get `prefect.cli.run.run` de-decorated? And what is the the difference between `create_flow_run`, `execute_flow_run_in_subprocess` and `prefect.cli.run.run(execute=True)` ?

`prefect.cli.run.run.callback` provides access to the undecorated function

Running a flow with the API takes two steps
• Create a flow run in the backend (gives you an id)
• Execute the flow run (takes an id)

`create_flow_run` is a task that does the first step then relies on an agent to perform execution

`prefect run --execute` does both steps. It creates a flow run with a label that no agent has (so the agents do not execute it) then executes the flow in a subprocess.

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