hf-cli
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Aug 15, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill provides installation commands that fetch and execute shell scripts directly from official Hugging Face domains and GitHub repositories.
- Evidence:
curl -LsSf https://hf.co/cli/install.sh | bash -sandcurl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-mount/main/install.sh | sh. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill facilitates the execution of shell commands and external extensions.
- Evidence: Commands such as
hf extensions install,hf jobs run, andhf sandbox execallow the agent to run code or manage remote execution environments. - [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill provides capabilities to manage and transmit sensitive data and credentials.
- Evidence: It manages Hugging Face authentication tokens (
HF_TOKEN) through commands likehf auth loginandhf auth token. It also provides utilities for uploading local files and environment variables to remote Hugging Face buckets and repositories (hf upload,hf buckets cp). - [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is vulnerable to indirect prompt injection due to its processing of untrusted external data.
- Ingestion points: The skill reads model/dataset cards, discussion comments, and academic papers from the Hugging Face Hub (
SKILL.md). - Boundary markers: None identified; external content is processed without explicit delimiters or instructions to ignore embedded commands.
- Capability inventory: The skill possesses capabilities for file writing (
hf download), command execution (hf sandbox exec), and network operations (hf upload). - Sanitization: There is no mention of sanitization or filtering of the content retrieved from the Hub before it is processed by the agent.
Recommendations
- HIGH: Downloads and executes remote code from: https://hf.co/cli/install.sh - DO NOT USE without thorough review
- INFO: Downloads code from trusted source(s): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-mount/main/install.sh
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