---
title: HF Models
description: "Mount a Hugging Face model repository as a filesystem and inspect weights, configs, and cards with shell commands."
icon: /images/huggingface-logo.svg
---
The HF Models resource mounts a [Hugging Face Model](https://huggingface.co/models)
repo at some prefix such as `/m/`.
You can inspect configs, tokenizers, and READMEs without downloading the
weights, weights stream only when you actually `cat` them.

For credential setup, see [HF Models Setup](/home/setup/hf_models).

## Install

```bash
uv add "mirage-ai[hf]"
```

## Config

```python
import os

from mirage import MountMode, Workspace
from mirage.resource.hf_models import HfModelsConfig, HfModelsResource

config = HfModelsConfig(
    repo_id=os.environ["HF_MODEL_REPO"],   # "namespace/model-name"
    token=os.environ.get("HF_TOKEN"),
    # Optional:
    # endpoint="https://huggingface.co",
    # revision="main",
)
resource = HfModelsResource(config)
ws = Workspace({"/m": resource}, mode=MountMode.READ)
```

## Filesystem Layout

Maps model repo files (config, tokenizer, weights, etc.) to virtual paths.

For example, `sapientinc/HRM-Text-1B` mounted at `/m/` exposes:

```text
/m/
  README.md
  config.json
  tokenizer.json
  tokenizer_config.json
  model.safetensors        ← never downloaded unless you cat it
```

## Example

```python
import asyncio

from mirage import MountMode, Workspace
from mirage.resource.hf_models import HfModelsConfig, HfModelsResource

config = HfModelsConfig(repo_id="sapientinc/HRM-Text-1B")
resource = HfModelsResource(config)


async def main() -> None:
    ws = Workspace({"/m": resource}, mode=MountMode.READ)

    # ls is cheap: one HTTP list call
    r = await ws.execute("ls -lh /m/")
    print(await r.stdout_str())

    # Read the config (small, fast)
    r = await ws.execute("cat /m/config.json")
    print(await r.stdout_str())

    # Stat the weights without downloading them
    r = await ws.execute("stat /m/model.safetensors")
    print(await r.stdout_str())


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())
```

## Shell Commands

Same set as [HF Buckets](/python/resource/hf_buckets#shell-commands).

## Use Cases

- **Model card inspection**: Read configs, tokenizers, READMEs without
  pulling multi-GB weight files
- **Compatibility checks**: `jq` over `config.json` to verify architecture
  before committing to a download
- **Pinned revisions**: Mount a specific commit/tag for reproducibility
