---
title: "Find bounded model candidates and inspect their evidence qualifiers for a task and constraints."
method: GET
path: "/api/agents/find-model"
tags: ["Agent Docs"]
---

# Find bounded model candidates and inspect their evidence qualifiers for a task and constraints.

`GET /api/agents/find-model`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://huggingbay.xyz`
- URL: `https://huggingbay.xyz/api/agents/find-model`
- Auth: none declared

Catalog metadata and evidence context are not proof of verification, licensing suitability, local fit or measured quality. Some tasks return a separate Bay Run specialist handoff. Inspect limited availability, unknowns and explicit blockers before acting.

**Inputs.** Path, query and header fields are listed below. No request body is required.

**Outputs.** See each status below for its media type, schema and headers. A missing record or unavailable capability is not a successful empty result.

**Errors.** API JSON failures use the documented response schema. Read code, message and next; retry only when the response allows it. Auth, invalid input and missing records need a caller change.

**Rate limits.** Public read budgets apply by client IP and route group. This operation can have a smaller route-specific budget. Read Retry-After on 429 or retryable 503 responses.

## Query parameters

- `task` string, required
- `commercial` '1'
- `hardware` string
- `gpu` string
- `ctx` integer
- `deviceFamily` 'nvidia' | 'amd' | 'intel' | 'apple' | 'cpu' | 'no-gpu'
- `customMemoryGb` number
- `limit` integer
- `snapshot` string
- `compat` 'containment'

## Response `200`

Ranked composite reports with a bestPick. input echoes hardware/hardwareParsed; indexBuild + recommendationPin document that identical (task, hardware) requests return the same bestOverall per index build while eligible (no time expiry). Unrecognized query params are echoed in input.unrecognizedParams with a warning, never dropped.

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Missing task, unknown_gpu (with supportedGpus[]), or conflicting-hardware-params

## Changes

- **2026-10-20** `ea7ba26b1e27`: 1 info
  - added the new optional `query` request parameter `snapshot`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/huggingbay/apis/hugging-bay-public-api/changes/api/agents/find-model/get.md)

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