hf-cli
The bootstrap skill in Hugging Face's skills repository, recommended as the first one to install.
What the skill teaches
The bootstrap skill in Hugging Face's skills repository, recommended as the first one to install. It gives an agent a reference to every command of the hf command-line tool, generated from a specific huggingface_hub release and regenerable from the locally installed CLI: downloading and uploading files, copying and syncing with buckets, signing in and switching tokens, managing repositories, cache, Spaces, papers and scheduled jobs on Hugging Face infrastructure, and mounting repositories as local filesystems. It includes the one-line installer for the CLI. Write actions need a Hugging Face access token.
Capabilities
- Download and upload models and datasets with hf
- Manage Hub repositories, Spaces and buckets
- Run and schedule jobs on Hugging Face infrastructure
- Manage hf authentication tokens and cache
Install
- Run this to add it to Any client:
hf skills add hf-cli
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | Hugging Face | |
| Publisher | Hugging Face | source |
| Official status | OfficialHugging Face Hub docs link to the huggingface/skills repository | source |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | No | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI | source |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Nov 11, 202611,334 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository Website |
Copies of this skill in other repositories (1)
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- hf-clipengqianhan/ai-human-research-os
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Sources
- README (README.md)github.com/huggingface/skills · Backs: AI clientsNov 13, 2026
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/huggingface/skillsNov 10, 2026
- Licence file (LICENSE)github.com/huggingface/skills · Backs: LicenceNov 13, 2026
- Web pagehuggingface.co · Backs: Official statusNov 13, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/huggingface/skills · Backs: Publisher, Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
- Folder in the repository (hf-cli)github.com/huggingface/skills · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026