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Could someone point me to any examples of using `try ... catch` with Prefect 2 tasks, if it’s possible that is? I’d like to be able to skip a failed task and let downstream tasks proceed but it seems like a Failed task kills the entire flow. Or maybe I’m wrong?

I think you want <https://orion-docs.prefect.io/api-ref/prefect/utilities/annotations/?h=allow_failure#prefect.utilities.annotations.allow_failure|allow_failure>, but I think try/except also should work

```
from prefect import task, flow, allow_failure


@task
def fail():
    raise ValueError()


@task
def succeed(x):
    return x


@flow
def example():
    try:
        fail()
    except ValueError:
        print("Ah it failed")

    print("All good!")

    state = fail(return_state=True)
    if state.is_failed():
        print("Ah it failed")

    print("All good")

    future = fail.submit()
    try:
        future.result()
    except ValueError:
        print("Ah it failed")

    print("All good!")

    return succeed(allow_failure(future))


example()```

Here are a few examples :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks. Should this in theory work with `shell_run_command`?