I assumed I would need to upload it and then reference it somehow?

You can save it as a dataset and then fetch it during run time, or am i missing something?

do I have to fetch it via code? I was hoping to not modify my scripts

ClearML downloads/caches datasets to ~/.clearml/ folder so yes, you need to modify your code.
dataset_folder = Dataset.get(project_name=, dataset_name=, version=).get_local_copy() file_json_path = os.path.join(dataset_folder, 'file.json')

Thanks!

After proving we can run our training, I would then advise we update our code base

Can you please elaborate on what you mean?

Or is there an easier way?

Could I simply just reference the files by name and pass in a string such as ~/.clearml/my_file.json

This would be a short term solution as we build a proof of concept

ok good to know

you would, but I’d advise against it, since that is not the intended way

ok, but if you were to run it from a different machine (or a different user!) it wouldn’t work

so it caches to ~/.clearml/ any files that are under the same project name?

I wouldn't be able to pass in ~/.clearml/cache/storage_manager/datasets/ds_{ds_id}/my_file.json as an argument?

I’m afaid I don’t think there is a way to go around this without modifying your code.

Sure. My git repo myProject.git does not have file.json checked into VCS. I'd like to add this file at experiment runtime or equivalent.

Is not direcly cached in the ~/.clearml folder. There are some directories inside (one for storage, one for pip, another for venvs, etc.

So in your case it would be stored in ~/.clearml/cache/storage_manager/datasets/ds_{ds_id}/my_file.json