hf-cli

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Aug 22, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATION
Full Analysis
  • [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill facilitates the installation of the Hugging Face CLI by fetching and executing a setup script from the official hf.co domain (curl -LsSf https://hf.co/cli/install.sh | bash -s).
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill provides instructions for installing the hf-mount utility by downloading a script from the Hugging Face organization's official GitHub repository (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-mount/main/install.sh).
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The tool includes a feature (hf extensions install REPO_ID) that allows the agent to install additional functionality from public GitHub repositories.
  • [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: While intended for legitimate use, the skill provides access to sensitive authentication tokens through commands like hf auth token and hf auth login, and manages environment variables like HF_TOKEN. This capability allows the agent to read and handle user credentials for the Hugging Face Hub.
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill ingests external data (such as repository IDs and academic paper IDs) and has broad capabilities including file writes, network requests, and code installation. Boundary markers are absent, creating a surface for processing instructions embedded in Hub content.
Recommendations
  • INFO: Downloads code from trusted source(s): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-mount/main/install.sh
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Aug 22, 2026, 10:02 PM