# Hugging Face — AI Connector

Hugging Face publishes 10 MCP tools to Claude and is listed in the ChatGPT apps directory. Marketplace availability, tool surface, verification tier, and what Node8 measured against the live endpoint.

Source: https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/hugging-face/

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# Hugging Face

Access Hugging Face models, datasets, and Spaces

Listed in ChatGPT and Claude · 10 published tools · Verified partner

[ChatGPT listing](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/hugging-face?open_in_app) [Claude connector docs](https://huggingface.co/settings/mcp) [huggingface.co](https://huggingface.co/)

Overview

## What Hugging Face does

The Hugging Face app connects a chat session to the Hub. Models and datasets can be searched and inspected, SDK documentation is available for reference, and Spaces open a route into applications hosted on the platform, including image generation with models such as FLUX.1.

Machine learning jobs can be managed as well, so the app covers running work as much as reading about it. Its declared capabilities are read, write, and interactive output.

The bundled skills spread across the platform: the command line client, datasets, Gradio interfaces, jobs, community evaluations, an LLM trainer, and tools for both reading and publishing papers. That mix suits work that moves between finding an artifact and doing something with it.

### Who it is for

Machine learning practitioners who work against the Hugging Face Hub and want it reachable from a chat session.

### What stands out

Reference lookup, job management, and running hosted Spaces all sit in one connection rather than model search alone.

Availability

## Where Hugging Face is listed

Hugging Face ships this on both marketplaces: Hugging Face is listed in the Claude connectors directory and in the ChatGPT apps directory, under the same publisher domain.

Only 392 of the 3,150 products in this directory are listed in both marketplaces. One MCP server can serve both surfaces; what differs is each platform's listing and review process.

ChatGPT listing

## In the ChatGPT apps directory

Developer

Hugging Face

Filed under

Developer Tools

Listed since

May 2026

Authentication

Authenticates when installed

Website

[huggingface.co](https://huggingface.co)

Policies published

Privacy policy · Terms of service

Official listing

[Open in ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/hugging-face?open_in_app)

Snapshot

August 2026

### Named skills

Hugging Face declares 11 named skills, which puts it in the 6.7% of ChatGPT-listed apps that do.

-   **hf-cli**
-   **huggingface-community-evals**
-   **huggingface-datasets**
-   **huggingface-gradio**
-   **huggingface-jobs**
-   **huggingface-llm-trainer**
-   **huggingface-paper-publisher**
-   **huggingface-papers**

### Example prompts from the listing

-   Generate a realistic farm using FLUX.1

Claude listing

## In the Claude connectors directory

Hugging Face publishes 10 tools to Claude. That is a mid-sized surface: 45% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.

The median Claude-listed connector filed under Developer Tools publishes 13, so this one sits 3 tools below its bucket's median, 57th of 95.

It falls in the 7-10 tools band, which holds 14.6% of the Claude directory.

Hugging Face publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.

Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.

Publisher

Hugging Face

Verification

Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)

Filed under

Developer Tools

Endpoint

`https://huggingface.co/mcp?login&gradio=none`

Documentation

[Publisher setup docs](https://huggingface.co/settings/mcp)

Published tools

10 · 7-10 tools band

Depth rank in Developer Tools

57 of 95

Snapshot

August 2026

Hugging Face carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.

In the publisher's words

## How Hugging Face describes it

> Provides access to Hugging Face Hub information and Gradio AI Applications.

Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.

Nearby

## Other Developer Tools connectors

### [Alchemy](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/alchemy/)

Onchain data queries and Alchemy app management

ChatGPT

### [DeviceLink](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/devicelink/)

Stream files from a local machine to an agent, scoped by folder

Claude

### [Miro](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/miro/)

Summarize, search, and build Miro boards from chat

Claude · ChatGPT

### [PlanetScale](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/planetscale/)

Database, branch, and schema access for PlanetScale organizations

Claude

### [Rezonant](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/rezonant/)

Product specs, PRDs, and tasks pulled into a coding session

Claude

### [Stack Overflow](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/stack-overflow/)

Developer answers from Stack Overflow's question archive

Claude

[All 188 Developer Tools connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/)

This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Hugging Face's public marketplace listings as they stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Hugging Face, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.

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