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Is there a way to quickly start running an existing flow starting with a task in the middle of the dependency graph? (treating like all its dependencies have already been met)

Hi <@U01D5D01Q0G>!

Not at the moment. We’d like to support running arbitrary tasks in the graph (and downstream) at some point in the future

For now, if this is something you think you might need often, you can pass a parameter to your flow and have tasks raise `SKIP` signals if the parameter is `True`

Thanks for your response. As an alternative, is there a way to re-run a subset of tasks from a successfully completed run?

You could set the task you’re thinking of to `Pending` and change the flow to a `Scheduled` state

I would set all downstream tasks to `Pending` as well just to be safe