Local only mode by target

[ryanmelt]

What is the use case or problem this feature would solve?

Want to have a list of targets that only use files in the local mode /plugins folder and never go to buckets.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add an environment variable that makes a list of targets only use the local mode file location, and not use buckets at all.

OPENC3_LOCAL_ONLY="INST,INST2"

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[crawlchat]

This confirms the current implementation checks ENV['OPENC3_LOCAL_MODE'] globally (all-or-nothing) in several places like target_model.rb and storage.rb, with no per-target scoping mechanism today .

Thanks for the detailed feature request! Based on the codebase, OPENC3_LOCAL_MODE is currently a global toggle checked in many places (target_model.rb, local_mode.rb, storage_controller.rb, storage.rb) — it's all targets or none, with no per-target selection logic .

Adding an OPENC3_LOCAL_ONLY="INST,INST2" variable to restrict specific targets to local-only storage (never touching buckets) would require new logic to check target name against this list at each of those ENV['OPENC3_LOCAL_MODE'] checkpoints, rather than a simple global boolean.

This is a reasonable feature request, but it touches several core files across storage/local mode handling. I'd recommend flagging this to the engineering team to scope out the implementation properly (e.g., which operations - script storage, target file modified/download/delete - need this per-target behavior). Could you clarify if this should apply only to targets_modified file storage, or also to other bucket usages like logs/screens for these targets?