huggingface-hub 1.33.0

[v1.33.0] Better UX on large uploads and simpler skills installs

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📤 See progress while large Xet uploads validate

Very large Xet uploads used to sit silently between "Uploading" and "Committing" while shards were being finalized, which could take a long time with no feedback. The upload live display now shows a dedicated Validating bar — reported as a percentage instead of opaque internal validation-entry counts — both in the upload_folder display and in XetUploadProgressReporter (used by upload_file, create_commit and bucket uploads). This requires hf-xet>=1.6.0.

• [Xet] Show Validating progress during shard finalization by @seanses in #4478

🧩 Skills are now installed for every agent by default

hf skills add no longer requires a special flag for Claude Code. The skill is now always installed to .agents/skills (or ~/.agents/skills with -g) and symlinked into .claude/skills (honoring CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR when set), so a single command covers Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Pi and any other agent that loads skills from .agents/skills. The --claude flag is deprecated: it still works as a no-op but prints a warning, and --dest keeps installing only to the directory you provide. hf skills update refreshes both roots the same way. Along the way, CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR is now properly honored everywhere (it was previously ignored, which left skills invisible to relocated Claude Code installs).

# works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Pi and any agent that loads skills from `.agents/skills`
hf skills add

• [CLI] Always install skills for Claude Code, deprecate --claude by @hanouticelina in #4967
• [CLI] Honor CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR in hf skills add -g --claude by @hanouticelina in #4957

📚 Documentation: CLI guide

💔 Breaking Change

• Send PrivateLink config under privateService in create_inference_endpoint by @co42 in #4966
  • AWS PrivateLink settings are now sent as privateService.accountId and privateService.region. Use the new private_link_account_id and private_link_region parameters (the region is required when the account ID is set, and is independent of the compute region). The legacy account_id keyword still exists but is ignored and emits a FutureWarning; it is no longer included as a top-level payload field.

🖥️ CLI

• [CLI] Honor --format / --json / -q on jobs run commands by @Wauplin in #4936 — docs
  • These flags previously leaked into the container command on hf jobs run, hf jobs uv run and their scheduled variants (--format became the script path, -q became the image name). They are now consumed wherever they appear; use -- when your script needs them.
• [CLI] Allow bucket as a watched item type in hf webhooks create --watch by @davanstrien in #4958 — docs

📖 Documentation

• [Docs] Sync provider task table with the PROVIDERS registry by @rishabhsai in #4930 — docs
• Remove dots from allowed characters in job labels (docstring update) by @evalstate in #4962

🐛 Bug and typo fixes

• [Download] Publish symlink support only after probing by @Wauplin in #4923
• [Core] Skip invalid eval results entries instead of raising by @davanstrien in #4924
• [Cache] Use posix paths for scan_cache_dir ref names on Windows by @gokay-ai in #4925
• [Download] Measure http_get progress from the initial file position by @Wauplin in #4937
• Fix format_timesince showing "60 seconds ago" / "60 minutes ago" / "24 hours ago" instead of rolling over by @Sreekant13 in #4943
• [HfFileSystem] Make lpath optional in get_file (fsspec>=2026.9.0) by @assafvayner in #4951
• [Buckets] Raise BucketBatchError when a batch reports failed operations by @hanouticelina in #4954 — docs
• Align the hf package's python_requires with huggingface_hub by @sharziki in #4959
• [MCP] Follow nextCursor when listing tools in MCPClient by @Kayvan-Zahiri in #4960
• [Download] Fix Windows MAX_PATH error on tmp .incomplete file by @Wauplin in #4978
• [HfFileSystem] Fix get_file with a bare local filename by @davanstrien in #4981
• Apply the repo_id length limit to the namespace as well by @anishmehta24 in #4988

🏗️ Internal

• Post-release: bump version to 1.33.0.dev0 by @huggingface-hub-bot[bot] in #4926
• [Serialization] Fix device type when map_location is None by @Wauplin in #4938
• [Internal] Soft deprecate re.match by @Wauplin in #4939
• Fix Windows conftest erroring test subsets on lazy-loaded file_download submodule by @dltsum in #4945
• Scope GITHUB_TOKEN permissions per job by @hf-security-analysis[bot] in #4982