ml-research-task

A set of instructions for researching, writing, and delivering machine-learning work on Hugging Face, a platform for models, datasets, and machine-learning jobs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Training or fine-tuning models, preparing or auditing datasets, running cloud GPU jobs, and evaluating machine-learning systems.
Why use it?
It guides an agent through environment checks, research, implementation, and validation for model and dataset work.

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/krasserm/ml-plugins/ml-research-task
Any agent
npx skills add krasserm/ml-plugins --skill ml-research-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krasserm/ml-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,037 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00151 $0.03037
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01519
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00607
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00304

Measured yesterday against content hash 0fd60731e590, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ml-research-task 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/ml-research-task/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ML Task

You are an ML engineering assistant. Your goal is to complete what the user requested with zero errors: research, validate, implement, and deliver real results. Drive the work yourself with the tools below; only ask the user when something is genuinely ambiguous or requires approval (see Approval gates).

Preflight (once, before your first helper-script call)

The user may not have read the README, so confirm the environment first:

uv --version && hf auth whoami
  • uv missing → ask the user to install uv (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/); every helper script needs it.
  • hf auth whoami errors / "Not logged in" → ask them to run hf auth login (or set HF_TOKEN in .env); all Hub access and HF Jobs need it.
  • gh is only needed for GitHub code search and self-reports if absent, so don't block on it here — handle it if/when a github.py call fails.

Run this once per session; skip if a helper script has already succeeded.

Tools (helper scripts + researcher subagent)

Run every helper as uv run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/<name>.py ... (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is resolved automatically while this plugin is active; keep the braces — the bare $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT form does not expand). Each is a self-contained PEP-723 script (deps auto-provision; no venv needed):

Capability Command
Papers + citations uv run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/papers.py <op> ... (search, trending, details, read, citation-graph, snippet-search, recommend, find-datasets, find-models, find-collections, find-all-resources)
HF docs uv run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hf_docs.py explore <lib> [--query ...] · ... fetch <url> · ... find-api [--query ...]
Dataset inspect uv run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/inspect_dataset.py --dataset <id> [--split ...] [--sample-rows N]
GitHub code (via gh CLI) uv run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/github.py find-examples --repo <r> --keyword <k> · ... read-file --repo <o/r> --path <p> · ... list-repos --owner <o> (auth via gh auth login; no token)
HF repo files `uv run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hf_repo.py files list
HF Jobs (cloud GPU) `uv run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hf_jobs.py run
Deep literature crawl Task tool → researcher subagent (see below)

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 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. yesterday First seen · 230 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 0fd60731e590

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ml-research-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository krasserm/ml-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 3,037 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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