prefect.plugins

Prefect plugin system.

Provides startup hooks that allow third-party packages to run initialization code (e.g., set environment variables, configure DB connections) before Prefect CLI commands, workers, or scripts begin work, plus loaders for the prefect.collections entry point group used by Prefect collection packages.

This module is the stable public surface for the plugin system. Implementation modules live under prefect._internal.plugins.* and may change without notice.

The collection-loader symbols are imported eagerly because they have no extra dependencies; the pluggy-backed hook system symbols are loaded lazily via __getattr__ so that minimal builds (e.g. prefect-client) which do not ship pluggy can still from prefect.plugins import load_prefect_collections without a hard ImportError at module load time.