Great question! Assuming you’re on Prefect 3.x, you can add tags to your deployment at creation time. Here are the common ways: Python API - If you deploy from code with `flow.deploy(...)`:

from prefect import flow

@flow
def my_flow():
    ...

my_flow.deploy(
    name="my-deployment",
    work_pool_name="my-pool",
    tags=["production", "etl", "team-data"]
)

- If you deploy from source:

from prefect import flow

my_flow = flow.from_source(
    source="<https://github.com/org/repo>",
    entrypoint="flows.py:my_flow",
)

my_flow.deploy(
    name="my-deployment",
    work_pool_name="my-pool",
    tags=["production", "etl", "team-data"]
)

CLI - With the

prefect deploy

command, pass

--tag

(repeatable):

prefect deploy ./flows.py:my_flow -n my-deployment \
  --tag production \
  --tag etl \
  --tag team-data

Notes - Tags are for organization and filtering; they do not route work. Use work pools/queues for routing. - Deployment tags are merged into each flow run’s tags. - You can also add run-level tags dynamically with the context manager:

from prefect import flow, tags

@flow
def my_flow():
    with tags("urgent"):
        ...

Want me to tailor this to your setup? Are you deploying via Python or the CLI, and what tags do you want to use? If you’re on Prefect 2.x, I can share the equivalent approach there too.