Hugging Face · Agent Skill

hf-cli

Hugging Face Hub CLI (hf) for downloading, uploading, and managing models, datasets, spaces, buckets, repos, papers, jobs, and more on the Hugging Face Hub. Use when: handling authentication; managing local cache; managing Hugging Face Buckets; running or scheduling jobs on Hugging Face…

Published by Hugging FaceApache-2.0243 lines in SKILL.md

Source: huggingface/skills/skills/hf-cli
Repository owner: huggingface

Install

Read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing: a skill runs with your agent's permissions. This copies just this skill into Claude Code's user skills folder; other agents read skills from their own folder.

Claude Code (user-level)

git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/huggingface/skills.git /tmp/skills
cd /tmp/skills && git sparse-checkout set "skills/hf-cli"
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "skills/hf-cli" ~/.claude/skills/hf-cli

Skills folder docs:

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Works with

Agent Skills is an open format, so this skill loads in any harness that supports it, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, goose, OpenHands. Some skills are written for one product and say so in their description.

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Reviewed Oct 5, 2026. Name and description are the skill's own frontmatter.