diff --git a/docs/source/layers.md b/docs/source/layers.md
index c19c7899..99587380 100644
--- a/docs/source/layers.md
+++ b/docs/source/layers.md
@@ -229,6 +229,24 @@ with use_kernel_mapping(kernel_layer_mapping):
 This ensures that the mapping is not active anymore outside the
 `with`-scope.
 
+### Attributing Hub requests
+
+Libraries and applications can identify the Hub requests made while loading a
+layer by passing optional user-agent metadata to [`~kernels.LayerRepository`]:
+
+```python
+layer_repo = LayerRepository(
+    repo_id="kernels-community/activation",
+    layer_name="SiluAndMul",
+    version=1,
+    user_agent={"my-library": "1.0.0"},
+)
+```
+
+`user_agent` accepts either a string or a dictionary. If it is omitted, no
+application-specific metadata is added. Setting `HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1`
+disables user-agent telemetry, including metadata supplied this way.
+
 If the layer is stateless (it does not use member variables in its forward _or_ it was
 originally a function that was converted into a kernel layer with
 [`~kernels.use_kernel_func_from_hub`]), it can also be mapped to a kernel function:
diff --git a/kernels/src/kernels/layer/layer.py b/kernels/src/kernels/layer/layer.py
index 4d724365..8b8cac86 100644
--- a/kernels/src/kernels/layer/layer.py
+++ b/kernels/src/kernels/layer/layer.py
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ class LayerRepository:
             only kernels from trusted organisations are allowed. When `True`, all
             repositories are allowed. A list of repository IDs allows only those
             repositories in addition to repositories from trusted organisations.
+        user_agent (`Union[str, dict]`, *optional*):
+            Optional application metadata to include in the user-agent for Hub requests.
 
     Example:
         ```python
@@ -81,6 +83,7 @@ def __init__(
         revision: str | None = None,
         version: int | None = None,
         trust_remote_code: bool | list[str] = False,
+        user_agent: str | dict | None = None,
     ):
         if revision is not None and version is not None:
             raise ValueError("Either a revision or a version must be specified, not both.")
@@ -92,6 +95,7 @@ def __init__(
         self._trust_remote_code = (
             trust_remote_code.copy() if isinstance(trust_remote_code, list) else trust_remote_code
         )
+        self._user_agent = user_agent
 
         # We are going to resolve these lazily, since we do not want
         # to do a network request for every registered LayerRepository.
@@ -112,6 +116,7 @@ def load(self) -> Type["nn.Module"]:
             self._repo_id,
             revision=self._resolve_revision(),
             trust_remote_code=self._trust_remote_code,
+            user_agent=self._user_agent,
         )
         return _get_kernel_layer(self, kernel)
 
diff --git a/kernels/tests/test_layer.py b/kernels/tests/test_layer.py
index aa65de63..bac5dccd 100644
--- a/kernels/tests/test_layer.py
+++ b/kernels/tests/test_layer.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import logging
 import sys
 from contextlib import nullcontext
+from types import SimpleNamespace
 
 import pytest
 import torch
@@ -673,6 +674,35 @@ def test_layer_repository_requires_version_or_revision():
         LayerRepository(repo_id="kernels-test/silu-and-mul", layer_name="SiluAndMul")
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("user_agent", [None, "transformers/5.0.0", {"transformers": "5.0.0"}])
+def test_layer_repository_forwards_user_agent(monkeypatch, user_agent):
+    calls = []
+
+    def get_kernel(repo_id, **kwargs):
+        calls.append((repo_id, kwargs))
+        return SimpleNamespace(layers=SimpleNamespace(SiluAndMul=SiluAndMul))
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr("kernels.layer.layer.get_kernel", get_kernel)
+    repo = LayerRepository(
+        repo_id="kernels-test/silu-and-mul",
+        layer_name="SiluAndMul",
+        revision="main",
+        user_agent=user_agent,
+    )
+
+    assert repo.load() is SiluAndMul
+    assert calls == [
+        (
+            "kernels-test/silu-and-mul",
+            {
+                "revision": "main",
+                "trust_remote_code": False,
+                "user_agent": user_agent,
+            },
+        )
+    ]
+
+
 def test_layer_repository_with_trust_remote_code_allowlist_is_hashable():
     allowlist = ["untrusted-org/allowed-kernel"]
     repo = LayerRepository(