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Hi. I'm not missing anything specific from this, but wanted to make sure: Prefect 2 does _not_ have an alternative for Prefect 1's `Flow(...).validate()`, right?

I’m not very familiar with Prefect 1's `Flow(...).validate()` . Does it validate the types of a flow’s parameters?

Hi. No. `validate()` <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/51afe3232454b6f08bbc9eab5f2e1294b4b8cca5/src/prefect/core/flow.py#L827|checks if a flow is valid> by essentially checking if all tasks are added correctly. I think it's more DAG-focused, which Prefect 2 is not. So that's my guess for why there isn't a similar native feature?

Yeah I think so. In the future, we might add DAG to 2.0 so this could be the future feature

I don’t really know what this would mean in v2 since it’s not possible for a flow to contain tasks from outside the flow.