What is GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN in File based Storage?

[Srj]

# flows/my_flow.py

from prefect import task, Flow
from prefect.environments.storage import GitHub

@task
def get_data():
    return [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

@task
def print_data(data):
    print(data)

with Flow("file-based-flow") as flow:
    data = get_data()
    print_data(data)

flow.storage = GitHub(
    repo="org/repo",                 # name of repo
    path="flows/my_flow.py",        # location of flow file in repo
    secrets=["GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN"]  # name of personal access token secret  !!!!!!!WHAT IS THISSSSSSS!!!!!!
)

What should i pass here? I have copied my access token for github here. It fails. The Error Message in UI is

Failed to load and execute Flow's environment: ClientError('400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: http://localhost:4200/graphql\n\nThe following error messages were provided by the GraphQL server:\n\n GRAPHQL_VALIDATION_FAILED: Cannot query field "secret_value" on type "Query".\n\nThe GraphQL query was:\n\n query($name: String!) {\n secret_value(name: $name)\n }\n\nThe passed variables were:\n\n {"name": "0f*************************************"}\n')

[joshmeek]

Hi @Srj the GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN is one of the default secrets that you can configure to automatically authenticate with github. See more information here for default secret and here for more info on secrets as a whole.

[Srj]

So, according to documentation, all i have to do is, set a environment variable
PREFECT__CONTEXT__SECRETS__GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN={MY TOKEN STRING} ##Please Check the syntax
and make no change in the code above.
That's all?

[joshmeek]

Yeah that appear correct. However that value needs to be present where the flow run starts. So you may need to provide an environment variable to your agent through --env https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/cli/agent.html

[Srj]

Thank You. It worked. Needed to pass --env to agent.