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<@UUDFU628J> <#CL09KU1K7|> -- I am new to Prefect.. Can someone help me understand the difference between Prefect agent and Prefect executors?

Hi <@U01KYGSDVD3> the following docs may assist in providing more information!

<https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/flow_config/executors.html#choosing-an-executor>

<https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/agents/overview.html>

Thanks <@UL2EX9Y8N>.. So, lets say Agent is a base machine or a container, and executors come into picture when flows execute.. Agent is a one time setup, but we can specify different executor type at different flow level

Yeah! Agents deploy flows and executors execute tasks within that flow