Issues setting secrets: ValueError: Local Secret “MYSECRET” was not found

[anna_geller]

Thanks so much for posting on Discourse!

I assume you are using Prefect Cloud backend, correct? Or are you on Prefect Server? Can you share the output of prefect diagnostics?

If you are on Cloud, you could create the Secret directly from the UI and to use it, you would need to set:

export PREFECT__CLOUD__USE_LOCAL_SECRETS=false

And if you are on Server, check this Discourse topic:

How to set Secrets (e.g. GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN) on Server?

The Prefect Server uses local Secrets. Therefore, the local Secret e.g. the Secret for your storage access token must be set: either within the ~/.prefect/config.toml or as an environment variable. We generally recommend setting it via an environment variable, but here are several options how you can configure it. 1) config.toml You can add your Secret within the configuration file as follows: [context.secrets] GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN = "your_token" 2) Environment variable set on agent sta…