diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-secret.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci-secret.yaml
index d08b5cee..2cd3b1fd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-secret.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-secret.yaml
@@ -90,16 +90,16 @@ jobs:
     needs: [test, lint-frontend, lint-evaluation]
     runs-on: self-hosted
     steps:
+    - name: Install uv
+      uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@d0cc045d04ccac9d8b7881df0226f9e82c39688e  # v6.8.0
+
     - name: Checkout code
       uses: actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5  # v4.3.1
 
     - name: Download HF dataset
       run: |
         if [ ! -d "data" ] || [ -z "$(ls -A data 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
-          pip install huggingface_hub
-          huggingface-cli download The-OpenROAD-Project/ORAssistant_RAG_Dataset \
-            --local-dir ./data
-          echo "Dataset downloaded"
+          uv tool install huggingface-hub
         else
           echo "Dataset already cached on runner, skipping download"
         fi