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Hi all, I see in the docs (<https://docs-v1.prefect.io/core/concepts/persistence.html#input-caching>) that prefect does automatic input caching, so in this case I have a task that returns a dict
```    {
        "jobId": reportId,
        "s3Location": s3Location,
        "validationSettings": validation_settings,
    }```
but when the flow fails and I need to restart a task that uses that dict as a dependency I get this error
```    reportId = settings["jobId"]
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable```
why the second time I run that task the input is `None`, shouldn't it cache the input for restarts?

Hey <@U041MLA9PS7> I believe in this case you would need to make sure results are configured for your tasks, this discourse article is for retries but similar concepts apply here I believe <https://discourse.prefect.io/t/why-results-need-to-be-configured-in-order-to-use-retries/867>