ControlFlow
Prefect's agentic AI framework — ARCHIVED, do not use for new projects.
About
ControlFlow was Prefect's framework for structured agentic AI workflows. The repository has been moved to prefect-archive/ControlFlow and is no longer maintained (last push August 2025).
Included as a historical record with a clear warning: do not build on it. Prefect's agent efforts have moved elsewhere.
What it can do
- Structured agentic workflows (historical)
- Prefect-native task orchestration (historical)
- ARCHIVED — no future fixes
Setup
Not recommended — the project is archived. See Prefect's current agent offerings instead.
Prerequisites
None — archived project.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 5/10
Scored 5/10 (metrics tier). Repository is archived — maintenance scores 2 flat by methodology, and no future fixes are expected. Kept as a historical record with an explicit do-not-use warning. The score reflects obsolescence, not malice.
★ 1,387 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.2/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 2.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 8.8/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 5.0/10
- · 1,387 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · repository is archived — no future fixes expected
- · manual review: Prefect's agentic framework — REPO ARCHIVED (prefect-archive); do not build on it; license: Apache-2.0
Sources
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