I've set a Prefect Cloud secret, but I get error as in the screenshot. The prefect doc says "Secrets are resolved locally first, falling back to Prefect Cloud (if supported)". What am I missing? I'm using below command to retrieve the secret.

from prefect.client import Secret

GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN = Secret("GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN").get()

Hi @Sumit Kumar Rai. Try setting 

PREFECT__CLOUD__USE_LOCAL_SECRETS=false

Thanks @Kevin Kho it did work.

You can pass it in the RunConfig. For local development, you can use the environment variable

shakes fist @Kevin Kho is so on the ball we community folks never get to answer these questions any more 😂

You can always chime in. I'm sure you have more to add 🙂

Why doesn't it work like the doc says "Secrets are resolved locally first, falling back to Prefect Cloud (if supported)."? Is it a bug? If not shouldn't this be documented?

You'll have to refer to the core workflow doc on secrets too:

For Cloud users, if the secret is not found in local context and config.cloud.use_local_secrets=False, the base Secret class queries the Prefect Cloud API for a stored secret.