There isn’t currently a CLI flag like

--skip-build

for

prefect deploy

. So if you want to skip the build step, the supported mechanism is to set

build

to empty in

prefect.yaml

, for example:

yaml
build: []

or

yaml
build: null

I verified

prefect deploy --help

, and there’s no skip-build option exposed there. A few related notes: -

prefect deploy

only runs build steps if the

build

section is populated - same idea applies to

push

steps - if you need different behavior without editing the main yaml manually each time, your options are basically: - maintain a second

prefect.yaml

- script a temporary edit before deploy - define deployments in Python and use

.deploy(...)

instead, depending on your workflow CLI reference: - prefect deploy docs If you want, I can suggest a clean workaround for conditionally skipping build in CI/CD without hand-editing the yaml each run.