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Hugging Face MCP Server

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Hugging Face is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Connect to Hugging Face Hub and thousands of Gradio AI Applications

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 96%
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
184 of 184 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
169 ms
Response time
average over 24h
OAuth sign-in
Access
streamable-http

What changed 22

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 11 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Sep a tool changed version
10 Sep a tool description was rewritten hf_fs
10 Sep a tool changed version
9 Sep a tool changed version
9 Sep a tool description was rewritten hf_fs
9 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for hf_fs
26 Aug a tool changed version2 times that day
26 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for hf_fs
25 Aug a tool description was rewritten hf_fs
25 Aug a tool changed version
and 12 more, back to 11 August 2026

Hugging Face does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add hf-mcp-server --transport http https://huggingface.co/mcp?login
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hf-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/mcp?login"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.hf-mcp-server]
url = "https://huggingface.co/mcp?login"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hf-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/mcp?login"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hf-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/mcp?login"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

This server publishes 1 more address. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

hub
hub_repo_details
Get details for one or more Hugging Face repos (model, dataset, or space). Auto-detects type unless specified. For datasets, use operations: overview, dataset_structure, dataset_preview. Use dataset_structure first to discover configs, splits, sizes, and schema. Use dataset_preview only when config and split are known, unless the dataset has a single config/split.
hub_repo_search
Search Hugging Face repositories with a shared query interface. You can target models, datasets, spaces, or aggregate across multiple repo types in one call. Include links to repositories in your response.
hf
hf_fs
When to use: Hugging Face Hub models, datasets, Spaces, collections, papers, daily papers, today's trending models, current paper leaderboard, docs, and repository files. Examples: {"operations":[{"cmd":"ls","args":["hf://models/trending","--limit","10"]}]} {"operations":[{"cmd":"ls","args":["hf://papers/trending"]}]} {"operations":[{"cmd":"ls","args":["hf://papers/daily/latest"]}]} {"operations":[{"cmd":"cat","args":["hf://papers/2501.00001/paper.md"]}]} Use hf_fs for Hugging Face Hub filesystem operations. Call it with operations, an array of {cmd, args} items; multiple operations may be submitted together. Usage: {"operations":[{"cmd":"ls","args":["hf://models/org/repo"]}]} Grammar; each string below is one args array item: ls URI [--recursive] [--glob GLOB] [--type TYPE] [--sort SORT] [--limit N] cat URI [--offset N] [--max-bytes N] attach URI [--max-bytes N] stat URI find URI [--name GLOB] [--path GLOB] [--type TYPE] [--limit N] search URI [QUERY] [--type TYPE] [--sort SORT] [--tag TAG] [--kind mcp] [--limit N] COMMAND = ls|cat|attach|stat|find|search. TYPE = file|dir|repo|bucket|collection|paper|link. SORT = createdAt|downloads|likes|lastModified|likes30d|trendingScore|mainSize|id|trending|upvotes. URI is a canonical hf:// URI. QUERY and GLOB are each one string. Use search for resource discovery, not repository-content search; ls for a known directory, find for recursive file discovery by name/path (not file contents), stat for filesystem metadata or an uncertain target type, cat for text contents, and attach for a complete JPEG, PNG, or WebP image. When the request gives an exact text-file URI, use cat directly; do not add ls or stat first. stat does not read the contents of JSON, Markdown, or other text files. Search scopes: hf://models[/OWNER], hf://datasets[/OWNER], hf://spaces[/OWNER], hf://collections[/OWNER], hf://papers, and hf://docs[/...]. Repository and repository-file scopes are not supported: search a resource root or owner scope to discover resources; use find for file discovery within a repository or cat for a known text file. Paper and documentation search require QUERY. --tag (repeatable) and --kind are supported only on exactly hf://spaces, not owner scopes or other roots. The only valid --kind value is mcp, which selects MCP Spaces. Use ls hf://models/trending, hf://datasets/trending, hf://spaces/trending, or hf://papers/trending for trending listings. hf://papers/ID is a paper directory, not paper text. Use cat hf://papers/ID/paper.md for paper text and cat hf://papers/ID/metadata.json for metadata. No preliminary listing is needed for these known paths. Use ls hf://papers/ID to discover other resources. Omit --limit, --sort, and --type unless the request requires them. Limits and path-specific behavior are documented at hf://README.md. Issue one hf_fs call.
whoami
hf_whoami
Inspect the current Hugging Face authentication context, including the account, visible organization memberships, and credential access details. Read-only and never returns credential values.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://huggingface.co/mcp?login streamable-http sign-in 126 ms 0 min ago
https://huggingface.co/mcp streamable-http answering 129 ms 0 min ago

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Hugging Face — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Hugging Face do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: hf_fs, hf_whoami, hub_repo_details, hub_repo_search. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Hugging Face working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 184 of 184 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 169 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Hugging Face?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.
How do you sign in to Hugging Face?
No API key is involved. Hugging Face answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.
How fast is Hugging Face?
It answers our handshake in 169 ms on average, which is faster than 73% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.