Drop HF_TOKEN requirement; model repos are public now

app.py

@@ -40,16 +40,8 @@ PE_I2I_ID = "Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-PE-I2I"
 GUARD_ID = "hfmlsoc/ncii-guard-v02"
 GUARD_THRESHOLD = 0.5
 
-# The model repo is private/gated. Per the Hub auth docs, the HF_TOKEN
-# environment variable is used implicitly for all Hub requests and takes
-# priority over any stored token — so set HF_TOKEN as a Space secret
-# (Settings -> Secrets) with a token whose account has access to the repo.
-if not os.environ.get("HF_TOKEN"):
-    raise RuntimeError(
-        "HF_TOKEN is not set. Add it as a Space secret (Settings -> Secrets) "
-        f"with read access to {MODEL_ID}."
-    )
-
+# All model repos are public. If HF_TOKEN is set as a Space secret it is used
+# implicitly for Hub requests (higher rate limits), but it is not required.
 pipe = QwenImage21Pipeline.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
 pipe.to("cuda")