How do I install the Hugging Face Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/hugging-face/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

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Hugging Face

Category: General · Sub-category: integrations · Last updated: 2026-05-21

type:integration

Hugging Face integration. Manage Models, Datasets, Spaces. Use when the user wants to interact with Hugging Face data.

From the source SKILL.md

Hugging Face is a platform and community for machine learning, primarily focused on natural language processing. It provides tools and libraries like Transformers, Datasets, and Accelerate, along with a model hub where users can share and download pre-trained models. It's used by ML engineers, researchers, and data scientists to build and deploy NLP applications.

What this skill does

Hugging Face is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the integrations sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/hugging-face/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user wants to interact with Hugging Face data.

Who uses this skill

The Hugging Face Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hugging-face
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/hugging-face/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/hugging-face/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/hugging-face/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/hugging-face/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\hugging-face\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

For the full experience including quality scoring and one-click install features for each skill — upgrade to Pro.

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Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/membranedev/application-skills
License: MIT
Website: https://getmembrane.com

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

ClaudSkills. (2026). Hugging Face [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/hugging-face/

BibTeX

@misc{hugging-face-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Hugging Face [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/hugging-face/}
}

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