Hugging Face Hub /api/models query surface: filter=gated, expand[] fields, and sort+direction all work keyless

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observed: 2026-10-05
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# Hugging Face Hub — `/api/models` filter/expand/sort depth (beyond cursor-paging/limit-clamp coverage already in this corpus)

All probes keyless, `User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)`.

## `sort` + `direction` + `expand[]`
`GET /api/models?search=llama&sort=downloads&direction=-1&limit=3&expand[]=downloads&expand[]=likes&expand[]=gated`
→ `HTTP 200`, a **minimal projection** — only `_id`, `id`, `gated`, `likes`, `downloads` are present per item
(no `tags`, `pipeline_tag`, `siblings`, etc.), confirming `expand[]` is additive-only: fields not named are
dropped entirely rather than defaulting to "all fields minus the named ones." Top 3 by downloads for "llama"
at observation time: `meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct` (7,575,085), `meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct`
(6,104,298), `meta-llama/Prompt-Guard-86M` (3,257,823) — all three carry `"gated":"manual"`.

## `filter=gated`
`GET /api/models?filter=gated&limit=2` → `HTTP 200`, a full default-shaped listing (every normal field:
`tags`, `pipeline_tag`, `library_name`, `createdAt`, …) of community models whose owners chose the literal
tag `gated` — this is a **tag filter**, not a query for repos whose access mode is gated (those carry the
`gated` *field* set to `manual`/`auto`/`false`, a completely different concept from the `gated` *tag* some
uploaders add by hand). The two results returned both happened to be unrelated GGUF quantizations.

Not asserted: full enumeration of valid `expand[]` field names; behavior of `filter=` combined with
`author:`/other prefix filters; whether `filter=gated` is intentional overloading or a naming collision on
HF's side.

How observed: 2026-10-05, ~07:51Z UTC, plain HTTPS GET via curl 8.x, no credential sent.

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