📅 2025-05-03 — Session: Automated Space and Folder Management in Hugging Face

🕒 08:45–09:25
🏷️ Labels: Hugging Face, Automation, Python, Deployment, Dependency Management
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to automate the process of managing Spaces and folders in Hugging Face, focusing on creating Spaces, uploading folders, and ensuring proper module resolution and dependency management.

Key Activities

  • Developed a script to programmatically create a Space in Hugging Face and upload folders, ensuring the repository exists to prevent errors.
  • Improved the bootstrap script for AgentLab by adding checks for requirements.txt and logging for enhanced user feedback.
  • Utilized the HfApi().space_info() method to retrieve comprehensive details about a Hugging Face Space.
  • Addressed Python module resolution issues in Hugging Face Spaces to ensure proper imports.
  • Resolved package recognition issues in Python by ensuring correct folder structure and initialization.
  • Provided guidance on uploading large folders to Hugging Face and deploying individual agents per Space.
  • Discussed solutions for resolving missing local dependencies in Hugging Face Spaces.
  • Verified the usage of requirements.txt in Hugging Face Spaces by checking build logs and triggering rebuilds.

Achievements

  • Successfully automated the creation and management of Hugging Face Spaces and folder uploads.
  • Enhanced the robustness and user experience of the AgentLab setup process.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing and validation of the deployment strategies and dependency management solutions in various environments.