bug: Build Top HuggingFace Models workflow fails with unsupported list_models direction argument

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Problem

The scheduled Build Top HuggingFace Models workflow is failing because contrib/scripts/select-top-models.py passes direction=-1 to HfApi.list_models(), but the currently installed huggingface_hub no longer accepts that keyword.

Latest observed failed run:

• Run: https://github.com/modelpack/modctl/actions/runs/25265371400
• Workflow: Build Top HuggingFace Models
• Event: weekly schedule
• Failure:

TypeError: HfApi.list_models() got an unexpected keyword argument 'direction'

The workflow installs dependencies from:

contrib/scripts/requirements.txt: huggingface_hub>=0.20.0

On current main (1d480ded52ab1bda1aea3d03a452ed901325344d), installing that requirement and inspecting HfApi.list_models shows direction is not in the signature.

python3 -m venv /tmp/modctl-hf-venv
/tmp/modctl-hf-venv/bin/pip install -q -r contrib/scripts/requirements.txt
/tmp/modctl-hf-venv/bin/python - <<'PY'
from huggingface_hub import HfApi
import inspect
sig = inspect.signature(HfApi.list_models)
print('direction' in sig.parameters)
PY

Output:

False

Expected behavior

The scheduled workflow should select models successfully with the currently supported Hugging Face Hub API, or the dependency should be pinned to a version compatible with the script.