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 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+- Friendlier error messages: the CUDA-OOM hint now also suggests
+  `gradient_checkpointing` and `4bit` quantization, plus new mappings for
+  Hugging Face gated repos (`huggingface-cli login` / `HF_TOKEN`) and
+  `trust_remote_code` errors. Closes #272
+  ([#282](https://github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup/pull/282) by [@Akshaya-reddy18](https://github.com/Akshaya-reddy18)).
+
 ## [0.71.24] - 2026-06-21
 
 ### Added
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@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Listed by first contribution. PR numbers link the work.
   - `--energy` flag for `soup bom emit` — thread energy/CO₂ into the ML-BOM ([#256](https://github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup/pull/256))
 - **shatakshi-1404** ([@shatakshi-1404](https://github.com/shatakshi-1404))
   - Unit tests for the `warmup.py` auto-warmup-steps helper ([#274](https://github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup/pull/274))
+- **Kondamwar Akshaya Shrikant** ([@Akshaya-reddy18](https://github.com/Akshaya-reddy18))
+  - Friendlier error messages — richer CUDA-OOM hint + Hugging Face gated-repo and `trust_remote_code` mappings + tests ([#282](https://github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup/pull/282))
 
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