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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?

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

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

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

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

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The function takes ~20 minutes. I get this error:

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>

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

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>