Hugging Face MCP

Searches Hugging Face models and datasets and returns metadata: task, licence, downloads, and the card text. The useful workflow is the decision before the download — does this model have the licence and the…

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Use it for

Looking up model cards and dataset metadata before choosing a model

Skip it if

Downloading weights — that is a deployment step, not a lookup

What it is

Searches Hugging Face models and datasets and returns metadata: task, licence, downloads, and the card text. The useful workflow is the decision before the download — does this model have the licence and the size you can run. It is a research tool, not a model server.

Install

Terminal
uvx huggingface-mcp

Client configuration

Paste this into your MCP client config, then restart the client.

MCP client config (JSON)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avbbc": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "uvx huggingface-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

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