diff --git a/lua/config/options.lua b/lua/config/options.lua
index 915d3b8..bb164db 100644
--- a/lua/config/options.lua
+++ b/lua/config/options.lua
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ vim.g.blinky          =  true          ---@type boolean Options: <true|false>
 vim.g.rootiest_cmd    =  false         ---@type boolean Options: <true|false>
 -- Use experimental cmp performance fork
 vim.g.cmp_performance_enabled = true   ---@type boolean Options: <true|false>
+-- Use dev mode for rootiest plugins
+vim.g.rootiest_dev    =  false         ---@type boolean Options: <true|false>
 
 --  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AI TOOL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 vim.g.aitool          = "neocodeium"   ---@type string Options: [ai tool]
diff --git a/lua/plugins/astral.lua b/lua/plugins/astral.lua
index 22f3f54..dc88b3f 100644
--- a/lua/plugins/astral.lua
+++ b/lua/plugins/astral.lua
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ return { -- Astral
       "default",
     },
   },
-  dev = true, -- Use local codebase
+  dev = vim.g.rootiest_dev or false, -- Use local codebase
 }
diff --git a/lua/plugins/nvim_updater.lua b/lua/plugins/nvim_updater.lua
index 236d712..23c07b2 100644
--- a/lua/plugins/nvim_updater.lua
+++ b/lua/plugins/nvim_updater.lua
@@ -20,5 +20,5 @@ return { -- Neovim Updater
       desc = "Debug Build Neovim",
     },
   },
-  dev = true,
+  dev = vim.g.rootiest_dev or false,
 }