One-click archiving for HuggingFace models — keep your own copy before access disappears.
Also available for Firefox on Android. The extension talks only to your own hugger server — nothing is sent to us.
The model you build on today may not be downloadable tomorrow. Archiving turns “hosted somewhere” into “owned by you.”
New AI rules and export controls can force models to be geofenced, gated, or pulled. A local archive keeps you working regardless of where policy lands.
Repos get deleted, made private, or switched to restrictive licenses. If you didn’t download it, you may never get that exact version again.
Research and audits need the exact commit. hugger pins the revision sha so results stay reproducible years later.
Air-gapped labs, spotty networks, and data-residency rules all need models stored on infrastructure you control.
Run the small self-hosted hugger server, point the extension at it, and archive from any model page.