huggingface-local-models

huggingface-local-models is a skill for Codex from PracticalSwan/agent-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,679 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to finding and running quantized AI models in GGUF format with llama.cpp on a local computer. Quantization stores models in smaller files so they need fewer resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search Hugging Face, choose a quantization, convert models when needed, and start a local or OpenAI-compatible model server.
Why use it?
It helps select a compatible model file and run it locally on CPU or supported GPU hardware.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to search Hugging Face, choose a quantization, convert models when needed, and start a local or OpenAI-compatible model server.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/huggingface-local-models
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 PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill huggingface-local-models
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,679 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 117
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 84
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00059 $0.01679
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00839
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00168

Measured 3d ago against content hash bf4fb062b81d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

huggingface-local-models scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \
huggingface-local-models/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hugging Face Local Models

Search the Hugging Face Hub for llama.cpp-compatible GGUF repos, choose the right quant, and launch the model with llama-cli or llama-server.

Default Workflow

  1. Search the Hub with apps=llama.cpp.
  2. Open https://huggingface.co/<repo>?local-app=llama.cpp.
  3. Prefer the exact HF local-app snippet and quant recommendation when it is visible.
  4. Confirm exact .gguf filenames with https://huggingface.co/api/models/<repo>/tree/main?recursive=true.
  5. Launch with llama-cli -hf <repo>:<QUANT> or llama-server -hf <repo>:<QUANT>.
  6. Fall back to --hf-repo plus --hf-file when the repo uses custom file naming.
  7. Convert from Transformers weights only if the repo does not already expose GGUF files.

Quick Start

Install llama.cpp

brew install llama.cpp
winget install llama.cpp
git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
cd llama.cpp
make

Authenticate for gated repos

hf auth login

Search the Hub

https://huggingface.co/models?apps=llama.cpp&sort=trending
https://huggingface.co/models?search=Qwen3.6&apps=llama.cpp&sort=trending
https://huggingface.co/models?search=<term>&apps=llama.cpp&num_parameters=min:0,max:24B&sort=trending

Run directly from the Hub

llama-cli -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_M
llama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_M

Run an exact GGUF file

llama-server \
    --hf-repo unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF \
    --hf-file Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_M.gguf \
    -c 4096

Convert only when no GGUF is available

hf download <repo-without-gguf> --local-dir ./model-src
python convert_hf_to_gguf.py ./model-src \
    --outfile model-f16.gguf \
    --outtype f16
llama-quantize model-f16.gguf model-q4_k_m.gguf Q4_K_M

Smoke test a local server

llama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_M
curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer no-key" \
  -d '{
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Write a limerick about exception handling"}
    ]
  }'

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 3d ago Changed bf4fb062b81d
  2. 4d ago Changed 6ff270e571df
  3. 7d ago First seen · 165 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 4a58676134b8

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huggingface-local-models is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,679 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.