35 tools that work with Hugging Face: 10 MCP servers, 24 Agent Skills and 1 Claude Code plugin. 6 of the remote servers answered our live check, 2 worked without an API key, and 7 come from an official or verified publisher. Ranked by GitHub stars plus official, live and free-to-try signals.
Most common uses: Models, LLM APIs, routing, serving, training & GPUs (23), Web search engines & search APIs (2), Notes, docs & knowledge bases (2), Science: biology, chemistry, physics & engineering (2).
| Tool | Stars | Last update | License | |
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| huggingface-skills Build, train, evaluate, and use open source AI models, datasets, and spaces. PluginAnthropic marketplace | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| transformers Hugging Face Transformers for loading Hub models, running pipeline inference, text generation, and Trainer fine-tuning on NLP, vision, audio, and mult SkillInstall · skills CLI | 57,090 | MIT | ||
| hugging-face-evaluation Add and manage evaluation results in Hugging Face model cards. Supports extracting eval tables from README content, importing scores from Artificial A SkillInstall · skills CLI | 49,672 | MIT | ||
| huggingface-accelerate Simplest distributed training API. 4 lines to add distributed support to any PyTorch script. Unified API for DeepSpeed/FSDP/Megatron/DDP. Automatic de SkillInstall · skills CLI | 14,526 | MIT | ||
| explain-interface Explains how a website, a visual effect or an animation was built, from a live URL or a screenshot. SkillInstall · skills CLI | 12,135 | MIT | ||
| hf-cli Hugging Face Hub CLI (`hf`) for downloading, uploading, and managing models, datasets, spaces, buckets, repos, papers, jobs, and more on the Hugging F SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| hf-mcp Use Hugging Face Hub via MCP server tools. Search models, datasets, Spaces, papers. Get repo details, fetch documentation, run compute jobs, and use G SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| hf-mem Hugging Face CLI to estimate the required memory to load Safetensors or GGUF model weights for inference from the Hugging Face Hub SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| huggingface-best Use when the user asks about finding the best, top, or recommended model for a task, wants to know what AI model to use, or wants to compare models by SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| huggingface-community-evals Run evaluations for Hugging Face Hub models using inspect-ai and lighteval on local hardware. Use for backend selection, local GPU evals, and choosing SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| huggingface-datasets Use this skill for Hugging Face Dataset Viewer API workflows that fetch subset/split metadata, paginate rows, search text, apply filters, download par SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| huggingface-llm-trainer Train or fine-tune language and vision models using TRL (Transformer Reinforcement Learning) or Unsloth with Hugging Face Jobs infrastructure. Covers SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| huggingface-local-models Use to select models to run locally with llama.cpp and GGUF on CPU, Mac Metal, CUDA, or ROCm. Covers finding GGUFs, quant selection, running servers, SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| huggingface-paper-publisher Publish and manage research papers on Hugging Face Hub. Supports creating paper pages, linking papers to models/datasets, claiming authorship, and gen SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| huggingface-papers Look up and read Hugging Face paper pages in markdown, and use the papers API for structured metadata such as authors, linked models/datasets/spaces, SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| huggingface-tool-builder Use this skill when the user wants to build tool/scripts or achieve a task where using data from the Hugging Face API would help. This is especially u SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| huggingface-vision-trainer Trains and fine-tunes vision models for object detection (D-FINE, RT-DETR v2, DETR, YOLOS), image classification (timm models — MobileNetV3, MobileViT SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| train-sentence-transformers Train or fine-tune sentence-transformers models across `SentenceTransformer` (bi-encoder, dense or static embedding model for retrieval, similarity, c SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| transformers-js Use Transformers.js to run state-of-the-art machine learning models directly in JavaScript/TypeScript. Supports NLP (text classification, translation, SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| trl-training Post-train LLMs with TRL (Transformers Reinforcement Learning) — SFT, DPO, GRPO, KTO, and reward-model training. Use when writing or debugging trainin SkillInstall · skills CLI | 11,341 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| kermt-add-cmim-pretrain Convert a grover_base checkpoint (encoder-only or encoder + vocab heads) into a hybrid checkpoint by adding a randomly-initialized cMIM decoder + late SkillInstall · skills CLI | 3,954 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| kermt-continue-pretrain Continue KERMT pretraining on a custom SMILES corpus with a grover_base, cmim, or hybrid checkpoint. Use a local checkpoint or optionally download a p SkillInstall · skills CLI | 3,954 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| transformers This skill should be used when working with pre-trained transformer models for natural language processing, computer vision, audio, or multimodal task SkillInstall · skills CLI | 3,816 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| Dataset licence facts Licence facts for Hugging Face datasets: declared licence, files, sources, conflicts. MCP serverVerified domain · datalicense.ukRemote● LiveFree to try | — | — | ||
| import-model Use when importing a new model architecture into MAX from a Hugging Face model ID. Triggers on: "import a model into MAX", "add model to MAX", "bring SkillInstall · skills CLI | 210 | — | ||
| Arrakis Rent GPUs at live prices and serve any Hugging Face model, with spend caps for AI agents. MCP serverVerified domain · goodailabs.comRemote● LiveAPI key needed | — | — | ||
| New Hugging Face Spaces — AI App Demo Discovery (hfspaces) New Hugging Face Spaces: fresh AI app demos & UIs. Be born in one call — free testnet funds. MCP serverVerified domain · a2awire.comRemote● LiveAPI key needed | — | — | ||
| StudioTV LLM VRAM Calculator Does an LLM fit on your GPU? VRAM, KV cache and GPU count for any Hugging Face model. MCP serverVerified domain · studiotvai.comRemote● Live | — | — | ||
| Trending AI Papers — buy per-query in-session (hfpaperwatch) Trending AI papers daily: ranks, summaries, repos. Be born in one call — free testnet funds. MCP serverVerified domain · a2awire.comRemote● LiveAPI key needed | — | — | ||
| huggingface Inspect and manage robotics datasets, models, Jobs, and Spaces on Hugging Face. SkillInstall · skills CLI | 108 | MIT | ||
| Hugging Face Connect to Hugging Face Hub and thousands of Gradio AI Applications MCP serverVerified domain · huggingface.coRemoteSign-in needed | — | — | ||
| CoverCraft AI by Ambuj Kumar Tripathi Live Hugging Face model proofing, ATS resume scoring and career tools by Ambuj Kumar Tripathi MCP serverGitHub-verified authorRemote● LiveFree to try | 0 | MIT | ||
| Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) Read-only access to the Islam West Africa Collection via Hugging Face datasets. MCP serverGitHub-verified authorLocal · MCPB | 2 | MIT | ||
| io.github.bikemeardsley/where-my-hug Which parts of an ML need Hugging Face already covers. Every model and dataset checked live. MCP serverGitHub-verified authorLocal · npm | 1 | MIT | ||
| io.github.jmshinhwa/model-card-lint-gpai Lints a Hugging Face model card against the Hub metadata spec and the EU AI Act general-purpose AI d MCP serverGitHub-verified authorLocal · npm | 1 | — |