Could I just build it and log these parameters using

task.set_parameters()

so that I call

task.get_parameters()

later?

instead of manually calling set/get, you call task.connect(some_dict_or_object) , it does both:
When running manually (i.e. without an agent) it logs the keys/values on the Task,
when running with an agents, it takes the values from the backend (Task) and sets them on the dict/object
Make sense ?