diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
index 2c5e62a16fbe..ef3a70228460 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -184,7 +184,10 @@ def main() -> None:
     if args.remote:
         hf_repo_id = args.model
         from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
-        allowed_patterns = ["LICENSE", "*.json", "*.md", "*.txt", "tokenizer.model"]
+        # "*.model" covers tokenizer.model and tiktoken.model; "*.py" is needed
+        # because several converters call AutoTokenizer with trust_remote_code=True,
+        # which resolves tokenizer code from the model directory.
+        allowed_patterns = ["LICENSE", "*.json", "*.md", "*.txt", "*.model", "*.py"]
         if args.sentence_transformers_dense_modules:
             # include sentence-transformers dense modules safetensors files
             allowed_patterns.append("*.safetensors")