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ghlore locks down wide binds, kernels restores env config

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huggingface/ghlore's `serve` now requires an explicit `--trust-network` flag before it will bind beyond loopback with no tokens configured, so a deployment that loses its token config refuses to start instead of starting open.

The change makes the loopback rule answerable rather than absolute [1]. It is a flag and not an inference from "no tokens," which is the point: a deployment that loses its token configuration refuses to start rather than starting open. What it trades is narrow and stated: responses are read-only through a SELECT-only connection [1]. Two related ghlore commits tighten the same perimeter story. The render envelope no longer wraps the whole page; retrieved prose now carries a `>` per line and the header says so, because the old header covered `[authoritative]`, the trust floor and every count, which are our assertions and not quotations, making a ghlore label indistinguishable from the same string in an issue body [2]. Marking is one-directional: retrieved text can add a marker, never remove one [2]. On the CLI side, `--json` and `--compact` are accepted on the subparsers too, with SUPPRESS so a flag given before the verb is not overwritten, because argparse called them "unrecognized" rather than misplaced and sent the reader after a typo [3]. `precedent` now takes `--limit`, and `precedent` and `why` say NOT IMPLEMENTED YET in `--help` since an agent builds its plan from that list [3]. The front page example was itself broken: `ghlore thread 47720 --focus "cropping"` was posted verbatim and answers 400 against a deployment whose tokens can see several repositories, a bare number being ambiguous when a token can see more than one repo [4]. It now carries `--repo`, plus an `inflight` line, documented in docs/cli.md [4]. Separately, `ghlore.huggingface.tech` got its certificate, load balancer and alias record, and `status` and `inflight` now answer over the name with no port-forward; the load balancer is internal, so off the VPN the failure is a timeout against a private address rather than a DNS error [5].

In huggingface/kernels, the `hf-hub` crate removed all standard env vars handling, so `kernels-common` ports the environment handling of `huggingface_hub` to restore support for standard variables and adds recognition of `KERNELS_CACHE` to align with the Python `kernels` client [6].

huggingface/harbor-hf landed an operator-only Workbench flow for managing Space secret names, never key values: register a reference, select it as an explicit environment source, review the server-derived recipe/model/image/destinations, and approve its use [7]. It replaces the undeployed manual manifest-path/offline-hash approach with one audited, revisioned private control record in the existing Bucket, and source identities cannot be silently rebound or reused since review IDs are actor-bound and expire [7]. CommandAgent no longer hardcodes `/app`: it runs public `environment.exec(command="pwd", cwd=None)` before installation and caches the effective directory for setup/run cwd and workspace bindings, preserving whitespace and Unicode paths, AGENT_HOME, literal bindings and credential filtering [9]. Sandbox jobs now get explicit names, defaulting to `harbor-<first 70 environment-name characters>-<12 hex SHA-256 characters>`, hashing the full native environment name and capped at 90 characters; names are display metadata, not trial identities [11]. The viewer's false stale observations are fixed too: comparing a new server response against a browser clock sampled up to ten seconds earlier caused them, so current time is now measured on render with one cleaned-up age timer and focus/visibility updates [8]. A failed refresh with recent cached data now offers Retry/Retrying instead of marking the evidence stale; the 60-second threshold is unchanged and malformed or future timestamps and old successful snapshots still fail closed [8]. Three native Terminal-Bench 2.1 diagnostic presets were added with every existing preset preserved: `all-tasks-1-trial-with-6h-qemu-fixed` at 89 trials, `all-tasks-5-trials-with-6h-qemu-fixed` at 445, and `held-50-3-trials-qemu-fixed` at 150, all with native agent `override_timeout_sec: 21600`, `max_timeout_sec: null` and `agent_timeout_multiplier: 1` [10].

In huggingface/transformers, `GenerationTesterMixin` already ran greedy generate with and without a cache, but each test only checked its own shapes and nothing compared them, so a cache feeding its layers the wrong positions or a mask of the wrong width passed both; the new assertion drives each side through `generate` to keep the modality, encoder-decoder and input-naming plumbing in the library [12]. MusicgenMelody conditioning was being silently dropped at generation step 0: `_prepare_cache_for_generation` pre-creates a DynamicCache or EncoderDecoderCache before the first step, so `past_key_values` is no longer None at step 0 and the guard `if past_key_values is not None:` set `encoder_hidden_states = None` [15]. The remaining transformers work is CI and MoE fixes [13][14].

Action items: if you run ghlore behind a network perimeter, confirm your deployment either has tokens configured or explicitly passes `--trust-network`, since the failure mode is now a refusal to start rather than a wide bind [1]. Update any script or doc quoting the front page example command to include `--repo`, which the deployment now requires for a bare thread number [4]. If you consume the kernels Rust client and relied on standard Hugging Face environment variables through `hf-hub`, this restore of `huggingface_hub`-style env handling puts them back, with `KERNELS_CACHE` added to match Python [6].

Action items

References

  1. [1] serve: --trust-network, for a deployment whose perimeter is the network ↗ huggingface/ghlore
  2. [2] render: mark the quoted lines, not the whole page ↗ huggingface/ghlore
  3. [3] cli: accept the global flags after the verb, mark the stubs, drop the score ↗ huggingface/ghlore
  4. [4] ui: the example commands need --repo, because the deployment's tokens see two ↗ huggingface/ghlore
  5. [5] cli: default to the deployment, which now resolves ↗ huggingface/ghlore
  6. [6] kernels-common: add `HFKernelsClientBuilder` ↗ huggingface/kernels
  7. [7] feat: manage provider secret references in Workbench ↗ huggingface/harbor-hf
  8. [8] fix(web): simplify viewer refresh freshness ↗ huggingface/harbor-hf
  9. [9] fix(agents): honor the task working directory in CommandAgent ↗ huggingface/harbor-hf
  10. [10] feat(presets): add six-hour fixed diagnostics and held-50 repetitions ↗ huggingface/harbor-hf
  11. [11] fix(worker): name Sandbox jobs explicitly ↗ huggingface/harbor-hf
  12. [12] Assert cached decode matches recomputing without a cache (#48289) ↗ huggingface/transformers
  13. [13] Fix deepspeed ci ↗ huggingface/transformers
  14. [14] [`MoE`] Fix eager EP ↗ huggingface/transformers
  15. [15] [MusicgenMelody] Fix conditioning silently dropped at generation step 0 (#48679) ↗ huggingface/transformers

Quick answers

What shipped in Hugging Face on September 11, 2026?
huggingface/ghlore's `serve` now requires an explicit `--trust-network` flag before it will bind beyond loopback with no tokens configured, so a deployment that loses its token config refuses to start instead of starting open. In total, 41 commits and 23 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Hugging Face on September 11, 2026?
7 developers shipped this update, including Tarek Ziade, danieldk, evalstate, Ilyas Moutawwakil, SunMarc, vasqu, and Yih-Dar.
What were the notable Hugging Face updates?
serve: --trust-network, for a deployment whose perimeter is the network, render: mark the quoted lines, not the whole page, and cli: accept the global flags after the verb, mark the stubs, drop the score.