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Hi, is it possible to identify from inside a flow whether a flow run is a cron job or not?

you can see the presence of `@schedule` in a run through a special `_graph_info` artifact <https://outerboundsco.slack.com/archives/C02116BBNTU/p1760582048300689?thread_ts=1760581079.026359&amp;cid=C02116BBNTU|like here>

if you have a flow that is sometimes started manually and sometimes automatically by `@schedule` - those may be harder to tell apart :thinking_face:

one indirect way is to set up a separate flow, `CronFlow`, that gets triggered by `@schedule` and have a second flow triggered based on it with `trigger_on_finish(flow='CronFlow')`

<https://docs.metaflow.org/production/event-triggering/flow-events#passing-data-across-flows|it's easy to see >if `CronFlow` triggered you by using `current.trigger.run`

&gt; if you have a flow that is sometimes started manually and sometimes automatically by `@schedule` - those may be harder to tell apart
This is the exact use case :slightly_smiling_face:
I have a flow that I expect to have some inputs provided by user when started manually and throw error but not for cron jobs.

Yeah separating it in 2 flows would be a way to go