Hugging Face
Linking an account does two things a job cannot otherwise do: read a gated or private model, and push an export back to the Hub.1
Link
Authorise through Hugging Face OAuth. The token is encrypted at rest with the deployment’s
FORGE_SECRET_ENC_KEY.2
Submit a job that needs it
Preflight checks that the model your config names is reachable and that you are authorised for it
— before the job is queued, rather than after it has waited and started downloading.
3
Push an export
On an air-gapped network
There is no Hugging Face to link to, and there does not need to be. An internal mirror is configured deployment-wide withFORGE_HF_ENDPOINT and every job uses it without anyone linking anything. See
air-gapped deployments.