hugging-face-cli

hugging-face-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bcastelino/agent-skills-kit. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,835 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of hugging-face-cli, MIT.

Instructions for using the Hugging Face command-line tool, which lets you manage models, datasets, and applications stored on the Hugging Face Hub. They cover authentication, downloads, uploads, repositories, local cache, and compute jobs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to download or upload models, datasets, and Spaces, create or manage Hub repositories, inspect model or dataset information, manage authentication, and run compute jobs.
Why use it?
They remove the need to remember the commands for moving files and projects between your computer and the Hugging Face Hub. They also explain how to inspect or clean locally cached data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use them to download or upload models, datasets, and Spaces, create or manage Hub repositories, inspect model or dataset information, manage authentication, and run compute jobs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bcastelino/agent-skills-kit/hugging-face-cli
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add bcastelino/agent-skills-kit --skill hugging-face-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bcastelino/agent-skills-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin hugging-face-cli/plugin install hugging-face-cli after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,835 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00048 $0.01835
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00918
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00184

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6822af7a8aff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hugging-face-cli scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to hugging-face-cli — 382 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/hugging-face-cli/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hugging Face CLI

The hf CLI provides direct terminal access to the Hugging Face Hub for downloading, uploading, and managing repositories, cache, and compute resources.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • User needs to download models, datasets, or spaces
  • Uploading files to Hub repositories
  • Creating Hugging Face repositories
  • Managing local cache
  • Running compute jobs on HF infrastructure
  • Working with Hugging Face Hub authentication

Quick Command Reference

Task Command
Login hf auth login
Download model hf download <repo_id>
Download to folder hf download <repo_id> --local-dir ./path
Upload folder hf upload <repo_id> . .
Create repo hf repo create <name>
Create tag hf repo tag create <repo_id> <tag>
Delete files hf repo-files delete <repo_id> <files>
List cache hf cache ls
Remove from cache hf cache rm <repo_or_revision>
List models hf models ls
Get model info hf models info <model_id>
List datasets hf datasets ls
Get dataset info hf datasets info <dataset_id>
List spaces hf spaces ls
Get space info hf spaces info <space_id>
List endpoints hf endpoints ls
Run GPU job hf jobs run --flavor a10g-small <image> <cmd>
Environment info hf env

Core Commands

Authentication

hf auth login                    # Interactive login
hf auth login --token $HF_TOKEN  # Non-interactive
hf auth whoami                   # Check current user
hf auth list                     # List stored tokens
hf auth switch                   # Switch between tokens
hf auth logout                   # Log out

Download

hf download <repo_id>                              # Full repo to cache
hf download <repo_id> file.safetensors             # Specific file
hf download <repo_id> --local-dir ./models         # To local directory
hf download <repo_id> --include "*.safetensors"    # Filter by pattern
hf download <repo_id> --repo-type dataset          # Dataset
hf download <repo_id> --revision v1.0              # Specific version

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 197 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 6822af7a8aff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hugging-face-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository bcastelino/agent-skills-kit (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,835 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to hugging-face-cli, differing in 382 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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