# huggingface-community-evals

> Claude/Codex skill by [@huggingface](https://omgskills.com/library/huggingface/index.md) · 11k stars · Updated 2026-10-08

Run evaluations for Hugging Face Hub models using inspect-ai and lighteval on local hardware. Use for backend selection, local GPU evals, and choosing between vLLM / Transformers / accelerate. Not for HF Jobs orchestration, model-card PRs, .eval\_results publication, or community-evals automation.

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/huggingface/skills /tmp/skills && ln -s /tmp/skills/skills/huggingface-community-evals ~/.claude/skills/huggingface-community-evals
```

## From README

Overview This skill is for running evaluations against models on the Hugging Face Hub on local hardware. It covers: inspect-ai with local inference lighteval with local inference choosing between vllm, Hugging Face Transformers, and accelerate smoke tests, task selection, and backend fallback strategy It does not cover: Hugging Face Jobs orchestration model-card or model-index edits README table extraction Artificial Analysis imports .evalresults generation or publishing PR creation or community-evals automation If the user wants to run the same eval remotely on Hugging Face Jobs, hand off to the hugging-face-jobs skill and pass it one of the local scripts in this skill. If the user wants to publish results into the community evals workflow, stop after generating the evaluation run and hand off that publishing step to /code/community-evals. All paths below are relative to the directory containing this SKILL.md.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/huggingface/skills/huggingface-community-evals/
- GitHub: https://github.com/huggingface/skills
- Author: [@huggingface](https://omgskills.com/library/huggingface/index.md)

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