diff --git a/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-gen-pre.py b/gguf-py/scripts/gguf-gen-pre.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+import os
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from tqdm import tqdm
+
+# Necessary to load the local gguf package
+if "NO_LOCAL_GGUF" not in os.environ and (Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent / 'gguf-py').exists():
+    sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent.parent))
+
+from gguf.huggingface_hub import HFVocabRequest
+
+logger = logging.getLogger("gguf-gen-pre")
+
+
+def test_pre_tok(content) -> None:
+    pass
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("hf_auth_token", help="A huggingface read auth token")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-v", "--verbose", action="store_true", help="A huggingface read auth token"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-m", "--model-path", default=None, help="The models storage path"
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    if args.verbose:
+        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
+    else:
+        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+
+    hf_vocab_req = HFVocabRequest(
+        args.model_path, args.hf_auth_token, logger
+    )
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()