hf-cli

A command-line tool for working with repositories, machine-learning models, datasets, and interactive apps stored on the Hugging Face Hub. It replaces the older huggingface-cli command.

In plain words
What is it for?
Downloading Hub files, uploading files or folders, syncing local files with a Hub bucket, and managing authentication.
Why use it?
It lets you manage Hugging Face files from a terminal instead of handling downloads and uploads manually through a website.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/huggingface/openenv/hf-cli
Any agent
npx skills add huggingface/OpenEnv --skill hf-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huggingface/OpenEnv

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,066 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00046 $0.04066
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.02033
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00813
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00407

Measured today against content hash 363580fa8db5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

hf-cli scanned grade C with 2 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 today.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

Install: `curl -LsSf https://hf.co/cli/install.sh | bash -s`.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Install: `curl -LsSf https://hf.co/cli/install.sh | bash -s`.
.agents/skills/hf-cli/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install: curl -LsSf https://hf.co/cli/install.sh | bash -s.

The Hugging Face Hub CLI tool hf is available. IMPORTANT: The hf command replaces the deprecated huggingface-cli command.

Use hf --help to view available functions. Note that auth commands are now all under hf auth e.g. hf auth whoami.

Generated with huggingface_hub v1.8.0. Run hf skills add --force to regenerate.

Commands

  • hf download REPO_ID — Download files from the Hub. [--type CHOICE --revision TEXT --include TEXT --exclude TEXT --cache-dir TEXT --local-dir TEXT --force-download --dry-run --quiet --max-workers INTEGER]
  • hf env — Print information about the environment.
  • hf sync — Sync files between local directory and a bucket. [--delete --ignore-times --ignore-sizes --plan TEXT --apply TEXT --dry-run --include TEXT --exclude TEXT --filter-from TEXT --existing --ignore-existing --verbose --quiet]
  • hf upload REPO_ID — Upload a file or a folder to the Hub. Recommended for single-commit uploads. [--type CHOICE --revision TEXT --private --include TEXT --exclude TEXT --delete TEXT --commit-message TEXT --commit-description TEXT --create-pr --every FLOAT --quiet]
  • hf upload-large-folder REPO_ID LOCAL_PATH — Upload a large folder to the Hub. Recommended for resumable uploads. [--type CHOICE --revision TEXT --private --include TEXT --exclude TEXT --num-workers INTEGER --no-report --no-bars]
  • hf version — Print information about the hf version.

hf auth — Manage authentication (login, logout, etc.).

  • hf auth list — List all stored access tokens.
  • hf auth login — Login using a token from huggingface.co/settings/tokens. [--add-to-git-credential --force]
  • hf auth logout — Logout from a specific token. [--token-name TEXT]
  • hf auth switch — Switch between access tokens. [--token-name TEXT --add-to-git-credential]
  • hf auth whoami — Find out which huggingface.co account you are logged in as. [--format CHOICE]

hf buckets — Commands to interact with buckets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 lines

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. today First seen · 188 lines · 46 tokens per session scan C 363580fa8db5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hf-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository huggingface/OpenEnv (2,531 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 4,066 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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