Announcing a shared Hugging Face data table for Galaxy

A growing number of Galaxy tools need to present pre-downloaded Hugging Face-compatible models to users at job submission time. To avoid schema drift and duplicated administrator effort, the Galaxy community is standardising a shared Galaxy data table named huggingface that all such tools can consume from a single admin-managed .loc file.

Flux is the first tool to adopt this pattern, filtering models by type so users only see entries relevant to their task.

Key points:

• The table is named huggingface and lives in the standard Galaxy tool data directory
• It has 7 columns: value, name, pipeline_tag, domain, free_tag, version, path
• Tool authors filter primarily by pipeline_tag and/or domain; free_tag is a fallback for finer-grained selection
• Rows are only added, never removed, so existing tool configurations stay stable as new models are registered
• A single huggingface.loc file is shared across all tools and maintained by admins

The full schema reference, column conventions, and XML filter examples are being added to the Galaxy admin documentation.