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Hugging Face huggingface

Search models, datasets, papers and Spaces on the Hugging Face Hub.

Auth
keyless
Health
up probed
Vendor
huggingface.co
Categories
ai, search

Endpoint

https://huggingface.co/mcp (streamable-http)

Authentication

Keyless: the server answers without a credential.

From an agent (picker mode): call_tool with server=huggingface

Tools (4)

Name Title Description
hf_fs Hugging Face Hub: Find, use and view models, datasets, spaces, buckets, papers, documentation and collections. Get daily papers reports, and browse trending content. When to use: Hugging Face Hub models, datasets, Spaces, collections, papers, daily papers, today's trending models, current paper leaderboard, docs; list and...
Input schema 
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "operations"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "operations": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "cmd",
          "args"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "cmd": {
            "enum": [
              "ls",
              "cat",
              "attach",
              "stat",
              "find",
              "search"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Command to execute."
          },
          "args": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "description": "Command arguments. First item must be an hf:// URI, not a local path or bare filename. One argument per array item. search discovers resources, not repository contents; use root/owner discovery scopes, find for file discovery, or cat for a known text file. --tag requires hf://models|datasets|spaces[/OWNER]; --kind requires hf://spaces[/OWNER] and its only valid value is mcp."
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": false
      },
      "maxItems": 30,
      "minItems": 1
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
hf_whoami Hugging Face User Info Inspect the current Hugging Face authentication context, including the account, visible organization memberships, and credential access details. Read-only an...
Input schema 
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {}
}
hub_repo_details Hub Repository Details Get details for one or more Hugging Face repos (model, dataset, or space): card metadata, license, downloads, files, Space hardware/status, dataset configs, ...
Input schema 
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "repo_ids"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": -9007199254740991,
      "description": "Row count for dataset_preview. Defaults to 5 and is clamped to 1-100."
    },
    "split": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Dataset Viewer split. Required for dataset_preview when the dataset has multiple config/split options. Discover via dataset_structure."
    },
    "config": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Dataset Viewer config. Required for dataset_preview when the dataset has multiple config/split options. Discover via dataset_structure."
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Row offset for dataset_preview. Defaults to 0."
    },
    "repo_ids": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "minLength": 1
      },
      "maxItems": 10,
      "minItems": 1,
      "description": "Repo IDs for (models|dataset/space) - usually in author/name format (e.g. openai/gpt-oss-120b)"
    },
    "repo_type": {
      "enum": [
        "model",
        "dataset",
        "space"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Specify lookup type; otherwise auto-detects"
    },
    "operations": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "enum": [
          "overview",
          "dataset_structure",
          "dataset_preview"
        ],
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Details to return. Defaults to [\"overview\"]. For datasets, prefer [\"overview\", \"dataset_structure\"] first; then call [\"dataset_preview\"] with config and split."
    }
  }
}
hub_repo_search Repo Search Search and list Hugging Face models, datasets and Spaces (sort by downloads, likes, trending) with a shared query interface. You can target models, datasets,...
Input schema 
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "sort": {
      "enum": [
        "trendingScore",
        "downloads",
        "likes",
        "createdAt",
        "lastModified"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Sort order (descending): trendingScore, downloads, likes, createdAt, lastModified"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 20,
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Maximum number of results to return per selected repo type"
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Search term. Leave blank and specify sort + limit to browse trending or recent repositories."
    },
    "author": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Organization or user namespace to filter by (e.g. 'google', 'meta-llama', 'huggingface')."
    },
    "filters": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Optional hub filter tags. Applied to each selected repo type (e.g. [\"text-generation\"], [\"language:en\"], [\"mcp-server\"])."
    },
    "repo_types": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "enum": [
          "model",
          "dataset",
          "space"
        ],
        "type": "string"
      },
      "default": [
        "model",
        "dataset"
      ],
      "maxItems": 3,
      "minItems": 1,
      "description": "Repository types to search. Defaults to [\"model\", \"dataset\"]. space uses keyword search via /api/spaces."
    }
  }
}

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pick": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pick.tools/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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