CLI Reference

pals list

List locally cached HuggingFace models — a quick view into what is on disk.

$ pals list

What it does

Reads your HuggingFace cache and prints the model snapshots available locally. Useful for seeing what you can serve without a fresh download.

Cache lookup precedence (the same one HuggingFace uses): HF_HUB_CACHE → $HF_HOME/hub → ~/.cache/huggingface/hub.

list

$pals list

Qwen/Qwen3-8B (15.4 GB)

Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct (14.2 GB)

meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct (12.3 GB)

Point at a different cache directory for one invocation:

alt-cache

$HF_HUB_CACHE=/mnt/big-disk/hf pals list