Alternatives to hf-cli
hf-cli is an agent skill by huggingface: Hugging Face Hub CLI (`hf`) for downloading, uploading, and managing models, datasets, spaces, buckets, repos, papers, jobs, and more on the Hugging Face Hub. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match hf-cli and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. cudf-analytics leads the list (larger repository (30.6K stars)). 3 of them are published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with hf-cli.
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hf-cli
Hugging Face Hub CLI (`hf`) for downloading, uploading, and managing models, datasets, spaces, buckets, repos, papers, jobs, and more on the Hugging Face Hub.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches hf-cli (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1cudf-analytics
langchain-aiOfficial
Use for GPU-accelerated data analysis on datasets, CSVs, or tabular data using NVIDIA cuDF.
- Larger repository (30.6K stars)
★ 30.6KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2howtolivelonger
geekan
Look up research on longevity, diet, exercise, sleep and everyday habits in the HowToLiveLonger JSON dataset.
- Larger repository (35.8K stars)
★ 35.8KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3i4h-workflow-dataset-replay
Isaac for Healthcare Team <isaac-for-healthcare-support@nvidia.com>
Replay a workflow HDF5 episode through its original Scene.
- Repository has 3.7K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 3.7KLast active Sep 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4i4h-workflow-dataset-mimic
Isaac for Healthcare Team <isaac-for-healthcare-support@nvidia.com>
Expand workflow HDF5 demonstrations with action jitter, optionally scoped to node segments.
- Repository has 3.7K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 3.7KLast active Sep 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5cdf-anomalygen
NVIDIA <nvidia@nvidia.com>
Use when running the CDF AnomalyGen pipeline over a defect dataset — mask placement, fine-tuning, synthetic defect-image generation (SDG), evaluation, quality…
- Repository has 3.7K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 3.7KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6huggingface-datasets
huggingfaceOfficial
Use this skill for Hugging Face Dataset Viewer API workflows that fetch subset/split metadata, paginate rows, search text, apply filters, download parquet…
- Published by the vendor
- Repository has 11.2K stars
★ 11.2KLast active Apr 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 7bigquery-public
ClawBio
Run read-only SQL against BigQuery public datasets with local result capture, cost safeguards, and reproducibility outputs.
- Supports Python
★ 1.2KLast active Oct 19, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8huggingface-spaces
huggingfaceOfficial
Build, deploy, and maintain applications on Hugging Face Spaces — Gradio / Docker / Static SDKs, ZeroGPU and dedicated hardware, model loading, debugging…
- Published by the vendor
- Repository has 11.2K stars
★ 11.2KLast active Aug 3, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 9nature-data
Galaxy-Dawn
Prepare, audit, or revise Nature-ready Data Availability statements, data repository plans, dataset citations, and FAIR metadata checklists for manuscripts.
- Repository has 5.9K stars
- Open source (MIT)
★ 5.9KLast active Sep 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 10data-analysis
DougTrajano
Profile and aggregate a bundled sales dataset - group revenue by region, category, channel or month, apply filters, and compute sums, means, medians and ranges.
- Supports Python
★ 381Last active Oct 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11agent-evals
devops-skills
Build automated evaluation suites for AI agents using golden datasets, rubrics, and regression gates.
- Larger repository (48.4K stars)
★ 48.4KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12deepstream-import-vision-model
Tushar Khinvasara <tkhinvasara@nvidia.com>
Use this skill to bring a supported object-detection vision model from HuggingFace or NVIDIA NGC into an NVIDIA DeepStream pipeline with end-to-end…
- Supports powershell and bash
★ 3.7KLast active Sep 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet