Misleading 401 Unauthorized from smolagents despite valid Hugging Face authentication
The 401 is a red herring: your token is fine, the problem is token precedence. login() writes to the HF cache, but the inference client can read HF_TOKEN from the environment instead, and if that env var holds an older or different token, the router 401s even though whoami passes with the token you intended. Ver…
Problem outcome: unknown