diff --git a/pkg/mutators/single/huggingface.go b/pkg/mutators/single/huggingface.go
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+package mutators
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/batmac/ccat/pkg/log"
+	"github.com/batmac/ccat/pkg/utils"
+)
+
+// https://huggingface.co/docs/api-inference/detailed_parameters
+
+// Supported tasks:
+
+// Fill Mask task
+// Tries to fill in a hole with a missing word (token to be precise). That’s the base task for BERT models.
+// Recommended model: bert-base-uncased (it’s a simple model, but fun to play with).
+
+// Summarization task
+// This task is well known to summarize longer text into shorter text. Be careful, some models have a maximum length of input.
+// That means that the summary cannot handle full books for instance. Be careful when choosing your model.
+// If you want to discuss your summarization needs, please get in touch with us: <api-enterprise@huggingface.co>
+// Recommended model: facebook/bart-large-cnn.
+
+// Text Classification task
+// Usually used for sentiment-analysis this will output the likelihood of classes of an input.
+// Recommended model: distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english
+
+// Text Generation task
+// Use to continue text from a prompt. This is a very generic task.
+// Recommended model: gpt2 (it’s a simple model, but fun to play with).
+
+// Token Classification task
+// Usually used for sentence parsing, either grammatical, or Named Entity Recognition (NER) to understand keywords contained within text.
+// Recommended model: dbmdz/bert-large-cased-finetuned-conll03-english
+
+// Translation task
+// This task is well known to translate text from one language to another
+// Recommended model: Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ru-en. Helsinki-NLP uploaded many models with many language pairs.
+// Recommended model: t5-base.
+
+var HuggingFaceCommonTasks = map[string]string{
+	// keep the keys in lowercase
+	"fillmask":        "bert-base-uncased",
+	"summarization":   "facebook/bart-large-cnn",
+	"classification":  "distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english",
+	"text-generation": "gpt2",
+	"ner":             "dbmdz/bert-large-cased-finetuned-conll03-english",
+	"translation":     "t5-base",
+	"bloom":           "bigscience/bloom",
+	"bloomz":          "bigscience/bloomz",
+	"chat":            "OpenAssistant/oasst-sft-4-pythia-12b-epoch-3.5",
+	"starcoder":       "bigcode/starcoder",
+}
+
+type HuggingFaceRequest struct {
+	Inputs  string         `json:"inputs"`
+	Options map[string]any `json:"options"`
+}
+
+func init() {
+	singleRegister("huggingface", huggingface,
+		withDescription("ask HuggingFace for simple tasks, optional arg is the model (needs a valid key in $HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN, set HUGGING_FACE_ENDPOINT to use an Inference API endpoint)"),
+		withConfigBuilder(stdConfigStrings(0, 1)),
+		withAliases("hf"),
+		withCategory("external APIs"),
+	)
+}
+
+func huggingface(w io.WriteCloser, r io.ReadCloser, conf any) (int64, error) {
+	arg := conf.([]string)
+
+	baseURL := "https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/"
+
+	token, source, err := getHuggingFaceToken()
+	if err != nil && os.Getenv("CI") != "CI" {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	model := "bigscience/bloom"
+	if len(arg) >= 1 && arg[0] != "" {
+		model = arg[0]
+	}
+
+	log.Debugf("task aliases: %v\n", HuggingFaceCommonTasks)
+
+	if m, ok := HuggingFaceCommonTasks[strings.ToLower(model)]; ok {
+		model = m
+	}
+
+	url := baseURL + model
+	if os.Getenv("HUGGING_FACE_ENDPOINT") != "" {
+		url = os.Getenv("HUGGING_FACE_ENDPOINT")
+		if len(arg) >= 1 && arg[0] != "" {
+			log.Println("warning: HUGGING_FACE_ENDPOINT is set, ignoring model argument")
+		}
+	}
+
+	log.Debugln("token: from ", source)
+	log.Debugln("model: ", model)
+	log.Debugln("url: ", url)
+
+	input, err := io.ReadAll(r)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	request, err := json.Marshal(HuggingFaceRequest{Inputs: string(input), Options: map[string]any{"wait_for_model": true}})
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	log.Debugf("request: %s\n", request)
+
+	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, url, bytes.NewReader(request))
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+token)
+	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")
+	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "ccat")
+
+	if os.Getenv("CI") == "CI" {
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte("fake"))
+		return 0, nil
+	}
+
+	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	if resp.StatusCode < 200 || resp.StatusCode >= 300 {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("error: %s", resp.Status)
+	}
+
+	got, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	n, err := w.Write(got)
+	return int64(n), err
+}
+
+//nolint:gosec
+func getHuggingFaceToken() (string, string, error) {
+	// HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN,
+	// then HF_API_KEY,
+	// then the content of the file $HF_HOME/token
+	// then the content of the file ~/.huggingface/token
+	// and finally the content of the file ~/.cache/huggingface/token
+	token, source := os.Getenv("HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN"), "HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN"
+	if token == "" {
+		token, source = os.Getenv("HF_API_KEY"), "HF_API_KEY"
+	}
+	for _, path := range []string{"$HF_HOME/token", "~/.huggingface/token", "~/.cache/huggingface/token"} {
+		if token != "" {
+			break
+		}
+		content, _ := os.ReadFile(utils.ExpandPath(path))
+		token, source = string(content), path
+	}
+
+	if token == "" || os.Getenv("CI") == "CI" {
+		return "", "", fmt.Errorf("no HuggingFace token found")
+	}
+	return token, source, nil
+}
diff --git a/pkg/mutators/single/huggingface_internal_test.go b/pkg/mutators/single/huggingface_internal_test.go
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+++ b/pkg/mutators/single/huggingface_internal_test.go
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+package mutators
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/batmac/ccat/pkg/mutators"
+)
+
+func Test_huggingface(t *testing.T) {
+	// only test that we do not panic
+	t.Setenv("CI", "CI")
+
+	f := "huggingface"
+	t.Run("donotpanicplease", func(t *testing.T) {
+		if got := mutators.Run(f, "hi"); got != "fake" {
+			t.Errorf("%s = %v, want %v", f, got, "fake")
+		}
+	})
+}
+
+func Test_getHuggingFaceToken(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name    string
+		want    string
+		source  string
+		wantErr bool
+	}{
+		{
+			name:    "donotpanic",
+			want:    "",
+			source:  "",
+			wantErr: true,
+		},
+	}
+	t.Setenv("CI", "CI")
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got, got1, err := getHuggingFaceToken()
+			if (err != nil) != tt.wantErr {
+				t.Errorf("getHuggingFaceToken() error = %v, wantErr %v", err, tt.wantErr)
+				return
+			}
+			if got != tt.want {
+				t.Errorf("getHuggingFaceToken() got = %v, want %v", got, tt.want)
+			}
+			if got1 != tt.source {
+				t.Errorf("getHuggingFaceToken() got1 = %v, want %v", got1, tt.source)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}