# Prefect: Python workflow orchestration framework, README overview

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The README presents Prefect as a Python framework to run scripts as resilient scheduled workflows.

Source: https://github.com/prefecthq/prefect

What it supplies: The README presents Prefect as a Python framework to run scripts as resilient scheduled workflows.

Useful for: - Schedule and retry data or media-processing scripts.
- Trigger workflows from events and cache results.

First action: - Install Python 3.11 or later and run pip install -U prefect.
- Follow the quickstart and build-workflows docs.

Prerequisites and limits: Python 3.11 or later.

- Deployment and agent setup are in the documentation, which was not read.

The README text read states no licence, so check the repository licence file. A hosted Prefect Cloud is a separate service.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on opening and getting-started README text only; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run.

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