Hey is there any documentation on the prefect cli? Specifically I was wondering how prefect tries to discover flows 🙂 Should I have an export call flow or something?

> prefect run -m src.flows.internal_syncs.firestore_export.flow
Retrieving local flow... Error
Found no flows at src.flows.internal_syncs.firestore_export.flow.

the CLI docs are mostly in API reference https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/concepts/cli.html

Yea found those, but wasn’t clear to me how the cli tries to discover flows. But after testing it seems it just works if there is flow exported 🙂

normally, you register your flows explicitly so there is no discovery per se, Prefect then takes the flow from your storage configuration.

Yea, I’ve created my own flow discovery to be used in my CI/CD. Developed it before prefect cli was made.

there is some batch logic for the “prefect register”, but for “prefect run” it just takes your path or module to run it locally. If you use:

prefect run --name your_flow_name

then it queries Prefect API for a flow registered with that name. If there is more than one, it will require you to also pass a project name to uniquely identify the flow to run:

prefect run --name yourname --project yourproject

Yes exactly, sounds cool if my custom setup is compatible then 😬