hf-cli
82 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.
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 infrastructure; managing Hugging Face repos; discussions and pull requests; browsing models, datasets and spaces; reading, searching, or browsing academic papers; managing collections; querying datasets; confi…
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
Sends data to these websites: hf.co
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'hf-cli' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'hf-cli' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named hf-cli already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/huggingface/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '25910b3d0ba31a2ba102f901cdc9e008c278a69c' -- 'skills/hf-cli' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/hf-cli' ~/.agents/skills/'hf-cli' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'hf-cli' ~/.claude/skills/'hf-cli' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-08 | 25910b3 | 82 |
| 2026-11-06 | 25910b3 | 72 |