hugging-face-cli

What it does

The skill enables using the Hugging Face Hub CLI (hf) to download, upload, and manage models, datasets, spaces, buckets, repos, papers, and jobs on the Hugging Face Hub. It covers authentication handling, local cache management, bucket operations, and scheduling or running jobs.

How it works

• Install the hf CLI using the provided installer script and run it locally: tmpdir="$(mktemp -d)" && trap 'rm -rf "$tmpdir"' EXIT && curl -LsSf https://hf.co/cli/install.sh -o "$tmpdir/hf-install.sh" && less "$tmpdir/hf-install.sh" && bash "$tmpdir/hf-install.sh".
• Use hf --help to view available functions; auth commands are under hf auth (e.g., hf auth whoami).
• Commands include: hf cp SRC, hf download REPO_ID, hf env, hf sync, hf update, hf upload REPO_ID, hf upload-large-folder REPO_ID LOCAL_PATH, hf version.
• Authentication commands: hf auth list, hf auth login, hf auth logout, hf auth switch, hf auth token, hf auth whoami.
• Bucket-related: hf buckets cp, hf buckets create, hf buckets delete, hf buckets info, hf buckets list, hf buckets move, hf buckets remove, hf buckets sync.
• Cache management: hf cache list, hf cache prune, hf cache rm, hf cache verify.
• Collections, datasets, discussions, endpoints, extensions, jobs sections are listed with their respective subcommands and options as shown.

When to use it

Use when you need the Hugging Face Hub CLI (hf) for downloading, uploading, and managing hub resources and performing authentication, cache, bucket, or job-related tasks as described in the command list.

What it can touch

• Tools declared: claude-code, codex, cursor.
• The skill enumerates commands under hf, including hf auth, hf buckets, hf cache, hf datasets, hf jobs, hf endpoints, hf extensions, hf cp, hf download, hf upload, and related options.

Caveats

• risk: critical.
• license: MIT.