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Is there anyway to get a locally run flow to return a non zero exit code if it fails? Notice in the screenshot shown below, the last exit-code was 0.

Hey <@U02A2MYGML0>, are you saying you want more logs or you really want another exit code?

I really want an exit code :slightly_smiling_face:

we have a small "canary" flow that I run as part of CI/CD - I want it to give me an exit code so that the CI/CD pipeline fails

You would need `sys.exit(exit_code)` right? These honestly don’t play well with Prefect though because what happens is the Flow abruptly exits and Prefect doesn’t know what happened to the process because it died.

so when I do a `python some_flow.py` there's no way for me to programmatically know whether that flow was successful?

Is `python some_flow.py` using `flow.run()`?

flow.run() returns a state (Success, Failed) so you would have to parse that I think

```import prefect
from prefect import task, Flow
from prefect.engine.state import Success


@task
def hello_task():
    logger = prefect.context.get("logger")
    <http://logger.info|logger.info>("Hello world!")


with Flow(
        "hello-flow",
) as flow:
    hello = hello_task()


test = flow.run()
print(isinstance(test, Success))```

Excellent, for those following at home, this is where I ended:
```import sys
from prefect import Flow
from prefect.engine.state import Success

with Flow("dbt_debug_canary") as flow:
    # some tasks!

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if not isinstance(flow.run(), Success):
        sys.exit(1)```

oh even better; without modifications `prefect run -p some_flow.py` does what I want - thanks everyone!