Description

Task does not respect the optional: true property for remote Taskfile includes when running in --offline mode and the remote Taskfile is not available in the local cache.

Instead of skipping the optional include, Task fails while resolving it, even when the requested task is defined locally and does not depend on any remote tasks.

Steps to reproduce

Create the following Taskfile.yml:

version: "3"

includes:
  remote:
    taskfile: https://github.com/go-task/task.git//Taskfile.yml
    optional: true

tasks:
  local:
    cmd: echo "Hello from local"

Run the local task with offline mode enabled, using an empty cache:

task --offline --remote-cache-dir "$(mktemp -d)" local

Actual behavior

Task fails before executing the local task:

task: Taskfile "https://github.com/go-task/task.git//Taskfile.yml" was not found in the cache. Remove the --offline flag to use a remote copy or download it using the --download flag

Expected behavior

Task should skip the optional remote include when it is not available in the cache and continue executing the local task.

Expected output:

task: [local] echo "Hello from local"
Hello from local

Version

3.54.0

Operating system

MacOS 27

Experiments Enabled

No

Example Taskfile

version: "3"

includes:
  remote:
    taskfile: https://github.com/go-task/task.git//Taskfile.yml
    optional: true

tasks:
  local:
    cmd: echo "Hello from local"