Prefect + Memtro

Ask why a Prefect flow run failed, and what runs on a schedule tonight.

Connect Prefect with an API key or your server's auth string and Memtro reads flows, flow runs with their state and logs, deployments with schedules, work pools and automations. Leave the host blank for Prefect Cloud or name your own Prefect 3 server. Parameters and variable values are never read back. When you ask, and once an administrator has granted them by name, it can run a deployment or retry a failed run, which executes the flow on your infrastructure, cancel or resume runs, manage schedules, variables, work pools and automations, and permanently delete deployments, flows and runs.

In Memtro

What you can do with Prefect in Memtro

Ask in plain English from chat, your editor, a scheduled job or your own agent. The model picks the right Prefect tool, reads what it needs, and answers with the source cited.

What it does

  1. 01Flow runs by state, deployment, flow or start window, with state message, start, end and run time
  2. 02One flow run with its state and most recent log lines, never its parameters
  3. 03Deployments with schedules, paused status, work pool and queue, and when a worker last polled
  4. 04Flows by name, work pools with type, status and concurrency limit, and automations
  5. 05When asked and granted, runs a deployment, retries or resumes a run, or adds, resumes or activates a schedule, each of which executes flows on your infrastructure, and cancels, renames or retags runs
  6. 06When asked and granted, changes deployments, variables, work pools, queues, concurrency limits and automations, publishes markdown artifacts, and permanently deletes deployments, flows, runs, schedules and variables

Acts when asked

When you ask it to

These tools change something in Prefect. The model is told to use them only when you ask for exactly that, and an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it; a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.

  1. 01Run a deployment (schedules a flow run on your infrastructure)
  2. 02Cancel a flow run
  3. 03Create a variable
  4. 04Update a variable's value or tags
  5. 05Delete a variable
  6. 06Pause a deployment's schedule (deletes its waiting scheduled runs)
  7. 07Resume a deployment's schedule (schedules runs immediately)
  8. 08Delete a deployment
  9. 09Delete a flow
  10. 10Retry a failed or crashed flow run (runs it again on your infrastructure)
  11. 11Resume a paused flow run
  12. 12Rename or retag a flow run
  13. 13Delete a flow run and its logs
  14. 14Update a deployment's description, version, tags, parameters, work pool or queue, or concurrency limit
  15. 15Add a schedule to a deployment
  16. 16Change, activate or deactivate a deployment schedule
  17. 17Delete a deployment schedule
  18. 18Pause or unpause a work pool, or change its description or concurrency limit
  19. 19Create a work pool
  20. 20Create a work queue in a work pool
  21. 21Create a global concurrency limit
  22. 22Publish a markdown artifact
  23. 23Turn an automation on or off
In practice

Ask it like you would a colleague

Once Prefect is connected, these are the kinds of things people ask. Plain questions, no syntax. If the answer lives partly in another system you have connected, Memtro looks there too.

Prefect + Memtro
  • What failed or crashed overnight?

  • Why did the nightly ETL run fail?

  • Which deployments are paused?

  • Why are runs stuck in Pending?

  • Retry last night's failed backfill-orders run

01

Overnight failures

The data lead asks what broke overnight. Memtro finds two failed runs of the nightly ETL, reads their last log lines and reports a timeout reaching the Northwind warehouse at 02:14.

02

Rerunning a job

Dan Fletcher asks Memtro to retry the failed Acme invoice export after a fix. Memtro sets the run back to scheduled, Prefect accepts it, and a worker executes the flow again on the team's own infrastructure.

Teams

Where it fits

The teams that lean on Prefect most, a question each of them asks, and what they connect beside it.

Better together

Works with

A record in Prefect is rarely the whole story. Connect the systems that hold the rest and Memtro checks them together, then remembers what it learned so the next question starts further along.

Also in Engineering and operations

Using something else for the same job, or both? Each connector has its own tools; connect as many as you like.

Setup

How to connect

Connect withHost, and an API key or auth string
  1. 1

    Self-hosted servers must be Prefect 3 over https. Prefect Cloud service accounts need a Pro or Enterprise plan. On Cloud open Account menu → API keys → +, as a dedicated user with only the workspace role it needs for what Memtro may run and change

  2. 2

    Leave Host blank for Prefect Cloud and give the Account ID and Workspace ID from the browser address. Self-hosted, type your host only: a public DNS name with a publicly trusted certificate, no https://

  3. 3

    Paste the key, or the self-hosted server's auth string, into API key or auth string in Connections → Prefect in Memtro

  4. 4

    Ask what failed overnight

Also works from

Chat in the dashboard, the OpenAI-compatible API, scheduled jobs, and any MCP client: Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Claude Desktop. The Prefect tools are the same everywhere.

FAQ

Questions

Can Memtro change anything in Prefect?+

Only when you ask, and only what it has been granted: run a deployment (schedules a flow run on your infrastructure); cancel a flow run; create a variable; update a variable's value or tags; delete a variable; pause a deployment's schedule (deletes its waiting scheduled runs); resume a deployment's schedule (schedules runs immediately); delete a deployment; delete a flow; retry a failed or crashed flow run (runs it again on your infrastructure); resume a paused flow run; rename or retag a flow run; delete a flow run and its logs; update a deployment's description, version, tags, parameters, work pool or queue, or concurrency limit; add a schedule to a deployment; change, activate or deactivate a deployment schedule; delete a deployment schedule; pause or unpause a work pool, or change its description or concurrency limit; create a work pool; create a work queue in a work pool; create a global concurrency limit; publish a markdown artifact; turn an automation on or off. Every other tool reads, searches or lists. The Connections page labels the tools that act, an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it, and a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.

Who can use a Prefect connection?+

A personal connection serves only your own requests. A shared connection serves the organisation: everyone, or only the teams an admin chooses. Admins can always add shared connections; other members need the permission.

Does Memtro store my Prefect data?+

Credentials are encrypted at rest. Tool results are cached briefly so agent loops do not repeat identical calls, and the facts the model extracts are saved to your organisation's memory with provenance (system, record and link) so they can be checked and superseded.

How do I connect Prefect?+

Host, and an API key or auth string. Self-hosted servers must be Prefect 3 over https. Prefect Cloud service accounts need a Pro or Enterprise plan. On Cloud open Account menu → API keys → +, as a dedicated user with only the workspace role it needs for what Memtro may run and change.

Connect Prefect in a few minutes

Seven-day free trial, then one monthly price per organisation. Connectors, jobs and memory are never metered.

Where agents remember your company

Sign in, add a provider key, create an API key and point your tools at Memtro. It takes about five minutes.

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