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I’m having some trouble understanding whether I should be able to run `python myflow.py` and read Secrets within my flow. I’ve added the Secrets in the Cloud UI and authenticated with the prefect CLI. Is the right model that “running a flow locally without an agent never hits the server” or am I mistaken?

Hi <@U020NF69BQT> - If you're running a flow locally you can set your secrets locally. Check out the local secrets section of the docs: <https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/concepts/secrets.html#setting-local-secrets|https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/concepts/secrets.html#setting-local-secrets>

Thanks. I was able to set secrets locally using env vars and my flow succeeds. Then if I run a local agent and run a flow from the cloud UI, it succeeds. Now I’m trying to use a docker agent (`prefect agent docker start`) and a `GitLab` storage configuration, and my flows fail: `KeyError('The secret ... was not found...` . I’ve set the secrets in the cloud UI under team settings. Should I be expecting the cloud secrets to be fetched in this scenario?

Oh haha I see what I did wrong. The credential passed to the GitLab storage object should be the name of a secret, not a literal secret! Should be good now.