diff --git a/runtime/llama.cpp/download-funasr-model.sh b/runtime/llama.cpp/download-funasr-model.sh
index 0658a8fdc..fdd6fdc0b 100755
--- a/runtime/llama.cpp/download-funasr-model.sh
+++ b/runtime/llama.cpp/download-funasr-model.sh
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ esac
 # huggingface_hub ships `hf` (new CLI); older versions only have `huggingface-cli` (deprecated). Use whichever exists.
 if   command -v hf              >/dev/null 2>&1; then HF=hf
 elif command -v huggingface-cli >/dev/null 2>&1; then HF=huggingface-cli
-else echo "need the Hugging Face CLI: pip install -U huggingface_hub"; exit 1; fi
+else echo "error: need the Hugging Face CLI: pip install -U huggingface_hub" >&2; exit 1; fi
 mkdir -p "$OUT"
 echo "downloading $REPO ..."
 if [ ${#FILES[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
@@ -69,4 +69,12 @@ if [ "$MODEL" != "fsmn-vad" ] && [ "$MODEL" != "vad" ]; then
   echo "downloading FSMN-VAD (for --vad) ..."
   "$HF" download FunAudioLLM/fsmn-vad-GGUF fsmn-vad.gguf --local-dir "$OUT"
 fi
-echo "done -> $OUT"; ls -1 "$OUT"/*.gguf
+shopt -s nullglob
+GGUF_FILES=("$OUT"/*.gguf)
+shopt -u nullglob
+if [ ${#GGUF_FILES[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "error: no GGUF files found in $OUT" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "done -> $OUT"
+printf '%s\n' "${GGUF_FILES[@]}"
diff --git a/runtime/llama.cpp/tests/test_download_funasr_model.sh b/runtime/llama.cpp/tests/test_download_funasr_model.sh
index 7c583170c..48bb01b1d 100755
--- a/runtime/llama.cpp/tests/test_download_funasr_model.sh
+++ b/runtime/llama.cpp/tests/test_download_funasr_model.sh
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 printf '%s\n' "$*" >>"$HF_LOG"
 
+if [[ "${HF_SKIP_CREATE:-0}" == 1 ]]; then
+  exit 0
+fi
+
 out=
 args=("$@")
 for ((i = 0; i < ${#args[@]}; i++)); do
@@ -87,4 +91,19 @@ if bash "$SCRIPT" sensevoice "$TMP/out" q4km >/dev/null 2>&1; then
 fi
 [[ ! -s "$HF_LOG" ]]
 
+mkdir -p "$TMP/empty-bin"
+if PATH="$TMP/empty-bin" /bin/bash "$SCRIPT" sensevoice "$TMP/out" >"$TMP/stdout" 2>"$TMP/stderr"; then
+  echo "download succeeded without a Hugging Face CLI" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+[[ ! -s "$TMP/stdout" ]]
+grep -F "need the Hugging Face CLI" "$TMP/stderr" >/dev/null
+
+reset_case
+if HF_SKIP_CREATE=1 bash "$SCRIPT" sensevoice "$TMP/out" >"$TMP/stdout" 2>"$TMP/stderr"; then
+  echo "download succeeded without producing a GGUF file" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+grep -F "no GGUF files found in $TMP/out" "$TMP/stderr" >/dev/null
+
 echo "download-funasr-model contract tests passed"