i m trying to use a prefect secret in the most basic way and

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i m trying to use a prefect secret in the most basic way and am having some difficulty my call `Secret SECRET KEY get ` fails when I try to register my flow ```ValueError Local Secret SECRET KEY was not found ``` my backend is set to `cloud` and I do not have `use local secrets = true` set in my config toml so I m not sure why prefect is trying to actually retrieve a local secret there

Sean Talia · Answer

given how lightweight the documentation on using secrets is this seems like it should be very straightforward does one need to explicitly set `use local secrets = false` in the config toml

Amanda Wee · Answer

It sounds like it 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 So you satisfy the first condition but without explicitly setting it to false the second condition is not satisfied

Sean Talia · Answer

< Amanda Wee> can you link me to where you re reading that I don t see it on maybe this page of the documentation needs a makeover

Sean Talia · Answer

ah i see it s in the core documentation but not the orchestration documentation thanks for the heads up

Fina Silva-Santisteban · Answer

< Sean Talia> We re using prefect cloud too this is how we ve been setting secrets ```prefect context setdefault secrets prefect context secrets EMAIL USERNAME = SOME EMAIL ``` The first line checks if the `secrets` dictionary already exists and if it doesn t creates it for you The second one shows you how to add values to it I hope this helps