huggingface-zerogpu

huggingface-zerogpu is a skill for Claude Code from huggingface/skills. It costs 205 tokens per session (4,296 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for building Gradio demos on Hugging Face Spaces using ZeroGPU, a shared system that provides GPUs when a demo needs them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write code using the GPU decorator, configure Python and dependencies, manage concurrency and state, handle worker behavior, and tune runtime or quota settings.
Why use it?
It explains ZeroGPU's limits and runtime behavior, helping avoid failures caused by parallel requests, process isolation, unavailable CUDA hardware, or quota limits.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the huggingface-skills plugin — 26 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It helps write code using the GPU decorator, configure Python and dependencies, manage concurrency and state, handle worker behavior, and tune runtime or quota settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/huggingface/skills/huggingface-zerogpu
About the project

Hugging Face Skills is a collection of packaged instructions, scripts, and resources that teach AI agents how to perform tasks in the Hugging Face ecosystem, such as managing models and datasets, training models, and running evaluations. It is for coding agents that need to use Hugging Face Hub and machine-learning workflows. The catalogue entries are the project's own skills and integrations for agent clients.

huggingface/skills · 11,024 stars · on GitHub · huggingface.co

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 huggingface/skills --skill huggingface-zerogpu
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huggingface/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install huggingface-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 205 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,296 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 20 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 20 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00205 $0.04296
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.02148
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00859
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00430

Measured 9d ago against content hash 829659aec342, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

huggingface-zerogpu 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 9d 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/huggingface-zerogpu/SKILL.md · 290 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 290 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hugging Face ZeroGPU

Rules and patterns for ML demos on Hugging Face Spaces with ZeroGPU hardware. Covers @spaces.GPU, duration and quota tuning, process isolation, the CUDA availability model, concurrency safety, and CUDA build constraints.

Scope

This skill is for Gradio SDK Spaces using ZeroGPU hardware. Docker and Static Spaces cannot schedule onto ZeroGPU, and Streamlit apps now run as Docker Spaces — so this skill applies only to Gradio. For general Gradio coding (components, layouts, event listeners), see the huggingface-gradio skill in this repo. The authoritative ZeroGPU docs live at https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-zerogpu — refer to them for the current backing GPU, runtime version lists, and tier thresholds, all of which change over time.

Reference Files

Reference When to read
references/concurrency.md Always read alongside SKILL.md when writing ZeroGPU code — handlers run in parallel by default
references/how-zerogpu-works.md When reasoning about cold-starts, worker reuse, why module-scope warmup does not carry to requests, or why returning CUDA tensors hangs
references/how-quota-works.md When choosing duration values, debugging illegal duration vs quota exceeded errors, or explaining why default 60s blocks short tasks
references/cuda-and-deps.md When installing CUDA-dependent packages (e.g. flash-attn), pinning torch side-cars, or reading wheel filename tags

Hardware

ZeroGPU exposes two GPU sizes that map to a fraction of the backing card:

size Slice of backing GPU Quota cost
large (default) Half 1x
xlarge Full 2x

Default large gives half a physical GPU, so memory bandwidth and compute are significantly lower than the full card's specs. Use xlarge only when the workload genuinely needs the extra memory or compute.

Backing GPU changes without notice. ZeroGPU has already migrated across GPU generations several times; older write-ups may name A100 or H200, but those are outdated. For the current backing GPU and exact per-size VRAM, always check the ZeroGPU docs before sizing workloads.

Read the full file on GitHub · 290 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 290 lines · 205 tokens per session scan A 829659aec342

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huggingface-zerogpu is a skill published in the GitHub repository huggingface/skills (11,024 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 205 tokens to every session and 4,296 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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