How I automate my own job at Hugging Face using agents — Niels Rogge, Hugging Face
Aug 20, 2026 · 20:37
Niels Rogge, machine learning engineer on Hugging Face's community science team, explains how he automated his own job: agents ask researchers to publish paper artifacts on the Hub instead of Google Drive, Dropbox, or Zenodo. The outreach is a deterministic nightly workflow on GitHub Actions cron jobs with LangFuse tracing; follow-ups run as a fully autonomous Claude Agents SDK loop, with each GitHub issue in its own Modal container using Bash and one Hugging Face CLI skill. Thousands of issues have drawn only two negative replies, and he doesn't disclose the bot because recipients reply to the same messages he used to send. He argues open models like GLM 5.2 can replace closed ones, and cites his Daily Papers X account (90,000 followers) and a Papers with Code revival at paperswithcode.co.
