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I wanted to open a ticket, and maybe even contribute a fix... but perhaps someone from Pulumi can clarify if this thing should be reported as a bug or a feature require :sweat_smile:

I may be misremembering, but I was under the impression that `Stack.select()` just did `pulumi stack select`, which does not result in an API call, it's just a local operation.

Seems to still be the case: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/master/sdk/nodejs/automation/localWorkspace.ts#L431-L437>

So really, the REST API and automation API make the same number of API calls for this  information

This calls the CLI. Do you know for sure that the CLI doesn’t make an API call? I may have misread the code. 

Yes, I'm fairly certain `pulumi stack select` does not make any API calls, it's been a few years since I worked on this part of Pulumi but it's all local operations as far as I remember it <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/master/pkg/cmd/pulumi/stack_select.go>