{"full_name":"p-e-w/heretic","owner":"p-e-w","name":"heretic","url":"https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic","description":"Training-free language model modification: Remove censorship, suppress slop, reduce sycophancy, and more","homepage":"https://heretic-project.org","topics":[],"language":"Python","license":"AGPL-3.0","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2702526?u=4eefda88b63a8c1fec294a53dda7a6319b51720a&v=4","created_at":"2025-09-21T05:46:16Z","pushed_at":"2026-11-08T07:41:50Z","metrics":{"stars":40179,"forks":4599,"watchers":204,"issues":235,"prs":295,"releases":7,"issues_open":null,"issues_closed":null,"prs_open":null,"prs_closed":null,"prs_merged":null,"discussions":12},"growth":{"day":{"stars":104,"forks":15,"base_day":"2026-11-09"}},"history":{"dates":["2026-11-09","2026-11-10"],"stars":[40075,40179],"forks":[4584,4599],"watchers":[204,204],"issues_open":[null,null],"prs_open":[null,null]},"boards":{},"same_owner":[],"issues":[{"number":221,"title":"[Needs testing]: Kimi-K2.5 Abliteration Research (TL;DR: Standard abliteration does NOT work on Kimi K2.5.)","comments":19,"created_at":"2026-03-10T18:45:26Z"},{"number":147,"title":"Nemotron3: Failed to load model with all configured dtypes.","comments":17,"created_at":"2026-02-11T19:53:39Z"},{"number":401,"title":"Important announcement concerning the future of the Heretic project","comments":14,"created_at":"2026-07-05T16:36:24Z"},{"number":351,"title":"Ideogram is the first image model with refusals.","comments":14,"created_at":"2026-06-04T11:34:10Z"},{"number":472,"title":"Examining different datasets for Abliteration","comments":12,"created_at":"2026-10-02T13:16:08Z"},{"number":140,"title":"SOM Directions are Better than One: Multi-Directional Refusal Suppression in Language Models","comments":10,"created_at":"2026-02-11T10:08:29Z"},{"number":124,"title":"Detect and handle massive activations","comments":9,"created_at":"2026-01-31T20:52:14Z"},{"number":201,"title":"Can distinguish between Vendor Embedded Refusal (VER) behaviors and User Requested Refusal (URR) behaviors?","comments":8,"created_at":"2026-02-28T12:42:09Z"}],"discussions":[{"number":569,"title":"Unsloth quants?","comments":1,"category":"Q&A","created_at":"2026-11-06T16:51:18Z"},{"number":561,"title":"Mes petits 😈👿","comments":0,"category":"Q&A","created_at":"2026-11-04T15:42:23Z"},{"number":543,"title":"[Project idea] Chimera: A dynamic LoRA inference server that can do amazing things combined with Heretic","comments":0,"category":"Ideas","created_at":"2026-11-02T11:03:47Z"},{"number":541,"title":"TiTle","comments":0,"category":"General","created_at":"2026-11-01T06:53:29Z"},{"number":540,"title":"Richesse","comments":0,"category":"General","created_at":"2026-11-01T03:05:29Z"},{"number":509,"title":"enleve","comments":0,"category":"General","created_at":"2026-10-20T10:14:10Z"},{"number":505,"title":"Measured: what directional ablation does (and doesn't) do to the rest of the safety surface","comments":0,"category":"Show and tell","created_at":"2026-10-18T20:56:03Z"},{"number":480,"title":"Which models?","comments":1,"category":"General","created_at":"2026-10-04T18:43:40Z"}],"latest_release":{"name":"v2.1.0","tag":"v2.1.0","published_at":"2026-11-08T07:14:03Z","body":"## Changes\r\n* chore: bump version to 2.1.0.dev0 by @p-e-w in https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/pull/558\r\n* feat: allow specifying a custom config file path by @dreamfast in https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/pull/557\r\n* feat: add response length scorer by @p-e-w in https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/pull/562\r\n* fix: enforce memory residency for all model tensors by @p-e-w in https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/pull/564\r\n* fix: prevent errors during model reset from interrupting export by @p-e-w in https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/pull/565\r\n* perf: disable KV cache when obtaining module I/O by @p-e-w in https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/pull/566\r\n* fix: make batch size caching in benchmark scorer actually work by @p-e-w in https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/pull/567\r\n* fix: export plugin settings correctly by @p-e-w in https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/pull/570 (additional tests contributed by @Vinay-Umrethe)\r\n* docs: prepare for 2.1 release by @p-e-w in https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/pull/572\r\n\r\n## New Contributors\r\n* @dreamfast made their first contribution in https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/pull/557\r\n\r\n**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/compare/v2.0.0...v2.1.0"},"readme":true,"readme_zh":false,"news":[],"stale":false,"snapshot_at":"2026-11-10T09:35:25Z","history_start":"2026-09-06"}