Hugging Face Model Trainer

An official Hugging Face skill that lets Claude Code or Codex fine-tune open-source models using HF Jobs.

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Before & after

Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.

PromptFine-tune a small open model on our support tickets.
Beforegeneric AI agent
Fine-tuning a small model on your support tickets could work well. Here's the general process:

1. **Prepare your data** — format your tickets into input/output pairs
2. **Choose a base model** — a small open model like Qwen or Llama works for this
3. **Set up training** — configure hyperparameters (learning rate, epochs, batch size)
4. **Train** — run the fine-tuning job, ideally on a GPU
5. **Evaluate** — test on held-out examples
6. **Deploy** — serve the fine-tuned model

You'll need GPU access for training. Services like Hugging Face, Modal, or a cloud provider can provide that.

Consider whether fine-tuning is actually necessary — sometimes good prompting or RAG gets you there without the training cost.

What does your ticket data look like?
Afterwith Hugging Face Model Trainer
Official HF skill — orchestrates the fine-tune on Hugging Face Jobs from
inside this coding session, so you don't leave the agent to run training.

BEFORE ANYTHING: IS FINE-TUNING EVEN RIGHT?
Worth 30 seconds. If you want the model to answer FROM your tickets,
that's RAG, not fine-tuning. If you want it to answer LIKE your team
(tone, format, escalation style), that's fine-tuning. Support tickets
usually want both — RAG for the facts, a fine-tune for the voice.
Assuming you want the voice:

DATA — the step that decides everything
  Format: instruction → response pairs. Ticket question → your team's
  actual reply. Strip PII first; a fine-tune memorizes.
  Quality over quantity: 500 clean, on-voice pairs beat 5,000 noisy
  ones. Drop the tickets where the reply was "see attached" or a
  one-word close — they teach the model nothing but shape.

MODEL
  A small open model (e.g. Qwen) is the right default here — support
  replies don't need a frontier model, and small means cheap to train
  and cheap to serve.

TRAINING — launched on HF Jobs
  The skill configures and submits the job: LoRA (not full fine-tune —
  cheaper, and you can swap adapters later), sane LR, a couple epochs.
  It runs on HF's GPUs; you watch from the session.

EVALUATE — hold out before you train, not after
  Reserve 10% of tickets the model never sees. After training, judge on
  those: does it match your team's tone and escalate correctly? Eyeball
  20 side by side. A loss number won't tell you if it sounds like you.

THE FAILURE TO WATCH FOR
Overfitting to phrasing — the model parrots exact past replies instead
of generalizing. If eval answers feel copy-pasted, you have too many
epochs or too little data variety. Fix the data, not the LR.

Share a few sanitized ticket→reply pairs and I'll spec the dataset
format the job expects.

About this skill


name: hf-model-trainer description: Use when An official Hugging Face skill that lets Claude Code or Codex fine-tune open-source models using HF Jobs.

Hugging Face Model Trainer

The Hugging Face Model Trainer skill orchestrates fine-tuning of small open-source models (e.g. Qwen) on Hugging Face Jobs directly from an agentic coding session. github.com/huggingface/skills/tree/main/skills/hugging-face-model-trainer

What you get

  • A skill that fine-tunes open-source models via Hugging Face Jobs.

Customize your output

  • Swap the base model and dataset per project.

Example output

A small open-source model fine-tuned into a custom task-specific model.

Best for

Developers who want to fine-tune open models without leaving their coding agent.

SKILL.md preview

SKILL.md
---
name: hf-model-trainer
description: Use this skill when fine-tuning a small open-source model such as Qwen on Hugging Face Jobs directly from an agentic coding session.
version: 1.0.0
category: Development / Machine Learning
author: AgentVolt
license: proprietary
tags:
  - development
  - machine-learning
  - standard
---

# Hugging Face Model Trainer

Orchestrates fine-tuning of small open-source models on Hugging Face Jobs without leaving the coding session, from dataset prep through checkpoint retrieval.

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