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TLDR

Ready-made instruction sets that teach AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Cursor how to train models, explore datasets, and publish work on Hugging Face, install once, then just ask your assistant to use a skill.

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    Skill types
      Model training
      Dataset tools
      Web demos
      Experiment tracking
    Supported tools
      Claude Code
      Cursor
      Gemini CLI
    Tasks covered
      Download and upload
      Fine-tuning
      Benchmarking
      Publishing
    Structure
      Skill folder
      SKILL.md file
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Install the Hugging Face skills in Claude Code so your AI assistant can train and fine-tune a model by following proven step-by-step guidance.

USE CASE 2

Use a skill to let your coding assistant find the best AI model for your task by comparing benchmark results on the Hub.

USE CASE 3

Build and publish a Gradio demo for your model without manually researching the Gradio API.

USE CASE 4

Track training experiments automatically using the built-in experiment management skill.

Tech stack

PythonHugging FaceGradio

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

In plain English

Hugging Face Skills is a collection of ready-made instruction sets that teach AI coding assistants how to work with the Hugging Face ecosystem. Hugging Face is a platform that hosts thousands of AI models, datasets, and tools. The skills in this repository give AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, and Google Gemini CLI step-by-step guidance for specific tasks, such as training a model, exploring a dataset, running evaluations, or publishing a research paper. Each skill is a self-contained folder with a file called SKILL.md that contains the instructions the agent reads and follows. When you install a skill and then ask your coding assistant to do something related, it draws on those instructions to complete the task correctly. The idea is similar to giving a new employee a procedure manual for a specific job, rather than expecting them to figure it out from scratch. The available skills cover a wide range of tasks. There are skills for downloading and uploading models and datasets using the hf command-line tool, for finding the best AI model for a given task by checking benchmarks, for training language models with various fine-tuning methods, for running models locally on your own machine, for building simple web demos with Gradio, and for tracking training experiments. There are also skills for computer vision model training, working with JavaScript-based models in a browser, and managing research papers on the platform. Installation works differently depending on which coding tool you use. Claude Code users run a plugin command, Cursor users install via a marketplace link, Gemini CLI users install via a local extension command. Once installed, you can ask your agent to use a specific skill by naming it in your request. Contributors can add new skills to the repository by following the same folder structure and SKILL.md format used by the existing ones.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I installed the Hugging Face skills in Claude Code. Use them to download the IMDB dataset, fine-tune a small text classifier, and upload the result to the Hub.
Prompt 2
Using the Hugging Face skills, find the best open-source text-to-image model for generating product photos by checking benchmark scores.
Prompt 3
I want to fine-tune a small language model on my own data. Use the Hugging Face training skill to walk me through every step.
Prompt 4
Help me build a Gradio demo for my sentence similarity model and publish it to the Hugging Face Hub using the built-in skills.
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