Hugging Face Spaces

When to Use

Use this skill when you need build, deploy, and maintain applications on Hugging Face Spaces — Gradio / Docker / Static SDKs, ZeroGPU and dedicated hardware, model loading, debugging, buckets, inference providers, community grants. Use whenever the user asks to create or host an app on Hugging Face, port code onto...

Hugging Face Spaces host machine-learning applications. There are 1M+ today; each Space is a git repo. This skill covers creating, building, debugging, and maintaining them.

0. Getting ready

Before anything else:

1. Check the hf CLI is installed: which hf. If not, pip install -U huggingface_hub.
2. Check the user is logged in: hf auth whoami. If not, ask them to run ! hf auth login in this session — they'll need a write-scoped token from https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens.
3. Note whoami's canPay and isPro flags — they gate hardware choices below.

The hf-cli skill teaches an agent every hf command and is the recommended companion to this one. Install it with hf skills add hf-cli (add --claude --global to install for Claude Code as well, user-level).

1. What a Space is