Local mode runs rewritten components inside the local ComfyUI process and
exists only for developing the extension, yet it was the default, so users
who did not set the variable silently ran in it. settings now owns the
default (remote) through configured_execution_mode(), and every host-side
reader uses it. The Modal image environment pins local explicitly, as SSH
and Vast workers already do, so container code keeps its in-process
behaviour.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
