Hi do jobs sent to a local agent run in the terminal the age

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Hi do jobs sent to a local agent run in the terminal the agent is listening from Meaning the job can access a cli authentication and environment variables

Kevin Kho · Answer

Yes but you can also pass in env vars through the agent using the ` env VAR=VALUE` flag when spinning the agent up

Jelle Vegter · Answer

thanks

Jelle Vegter · Answer

I m asking because I have a flow which imports a main function from a local package

Jelle Vegter · Answer

I put the entire main function in a task and schedule that through prefect cloud

Jelle Vegter · Answer

If I run the function from the terminal where the agent listens from the main function works fine However when I schedule it it doesn t run

Jelle Vegter · Answer

The function takes ~20 minutes I get this error

Jelle Vegter · Answer

Any tips

Anna Geller · Answer

you can attach a path to your agent this way ```prefect agent local start p Users your username path to your modules``` for more information on this check this Discourse topic <https discourse prefect io t when i run my flow i see an error failed to load and execute flows environment modulenotfounderror no module named users username what is happening 33|https discourse prefect io t when i run my flow i see an error failed to load and exe derror no module named users username what is happening 33>

Jelle Vegter · Answer

I have no issues importing local modules I use Poetry as package manager

Anna Geller · Answer

and regarding the heartbeat error this topic shows some steps you may take to fix it <https discourse prefect io t flow is failing with an error message no heartbeat detected from the remote task 79>

Jelle Vegter · Answer

Great thanks