diff --git a/artifact_huggingface_download.sh b/artifact_huggingface_download.sh
index 438f503..dd28400 100755
--- a/artifact_huggingface_download.sh
+++ b/artifact_huggingface_download.sh
@@ -394,8 +394,12 @@ for file_path in latest_snapshot.rglob('*'):
         # If filename filter is specified, only match those files
         if filename_filter and filename_filter not in file_path.name:
             continue
-        # Skip metadata files
-        if file_path.name.endswith(('.json', '.txt', '.md', '.gitattributes')):
+        # Skip metadata files except important config files
+        # Allow: config.json, tokenizer.json, tokenizer_config.json, sentencepiece models
+        important_files = ('config.json', 'tokenizer.json', 'tokenizer_config.json', '.model')
+        if file_path.name.endswith(('.txt', '.md', '.gitattributes')):
+            continue
+        if file_path.name.endswith('.json') and not file_path.name in important_files:
             continue
         print(str(file_path))
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