{
  "slug": "hf-buckets-settings-updates-bucket-visibility-78cbd154b201",
  "title": "hf buckets settings updates bucket visibility",
  "tools": [
    "hf"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "agent"
  ],
  "introduced_at": "2026-08-27T12:13:14.000Z",
  "announced_at": "2026-08-27T12:13:14.000Z",
  "effective_at": null,
  "date_basis": "source-publication",
  "status": "unknown",
  "how": {
    "incantation": "For an existing bucket, set `private=True` to make it private or `private=False` to make it public. Use `update_bucket_settings()` or `hf buckets settings` with the matching visibility option.",
    "examples": [
      "hf buckets settings <owner>/<bucket> --private",
      "hf buckets settings <owner>/<bucket> --public",
      "from huggingface_hub import update_bucket_settings\nupdate_bucket_settings(bucket_id=\"<owner>/<bucket>\", private=True)"
    ],
    "gotchas": [
      "Version: v1.29.0",
      "bucket_id (required): Bucket ID, such as `<owner>/<bucket>`.",
      "private (required): Boolean visibility setting: `True` makes the bucket private; `False` makes it public.",
      "--private (required): CLI option to make the bucket private.",
      "--public (required): CLI option to make the bucket public.",
      "BUCKET_ID (required): CLI bucket ID in `namespace/bucket_name` or `hf://buckets/namespace/bucket_name` format.",
      "Prerequisite: Use huggingface_hub v1.29.0 or later; the release introduced updating bucket visibility."
    ]
  },
  "why_it_matters": "Change an existing bucket from private to public or public to private.",
  "before": "Bucket visibility could only be set when creating a bucket; it could not be changed afterward.",
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/releases/tag/v1.29.0",
    "https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/v1.29.0/en/package_reference/cli",
    "https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/v1.29.0/en/package_reference/hf_api"
  ],
  "rank": 0.97028,
  "judge": {
    "publish": true,
    "judge_model": "codex-cli/gpt-6-luna+typesafe/jev-1.13.0",
    "prompt_version": "extract-v7+enrich-v2+judge-v2x3+jev-publish-v1"
  },
  "review_state": "approved",
  "provenance": {
    "run_id": "wave2b-20261017",
    "verdict_id": "wave2b-20261017:wave2b-20261017-1fa7e61018496547-0:gate",
    "evidence_hash": "dfae9f7645efae80005625c0c6605783b23ec86a023013856a8842a6fb4ce44b"
  },
  "review": {
    "draft_hash": "a6c18afb70ca835a75c7de844c38fbbf16c23c8d05856d7806e466ec1b9c872f",
    "reviewer": "publication-gate",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z",
    "decision": "wave2b-20261017:gate",
    "reason": "3 of 3 judge runs approved with p_yes >= 0.9 (mean 0.97 >= 0.9; 2 needed) and Jev gave 0.80 (>= 0.6 needed)."
  }
}