--- title: "Heretic" kind: "Kit" category: "Developer" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/ee9cf06f-3b26-4ba0-9abc-8d9b6b8185c1" updated: "2026-11-04" health: "Active" --- # Heretic > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Modifies local language models by adjusting internal weights to remove refusals, reduce slop, or change stylistic behavior. Targeted at developers and hobbyists working with custom LLMs. Heretic is an open-source project on GitHub in the Developer category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-04. Install it from GitHub as its README says. Get Mindket’s setup notes on your Mindket account, as a zip. Made by p-e-w ## About ### What it is Heretic modifies language models by adjusting internal weights to steer behavior. It performs these changes without training, and it supports tasks like removing refusals, reducing slop, or altering emotional alignment. ### Who it suits It is for developers and hobbyists who want to modify models on their own hardware. ### Where to use it You use it on your local computer to process models you run locally. ### How to set it up - Python 3.10 or newer - PyTorch 2.6 or newer - Compatible hardware 1. Prepare your Python environment. 2. Install the package via your terminal. ```sh pip install -U heretic-llm heretic Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 ``` ### How to use it You run commands in your terminal to process a model. By default, it removes censorship and suppresses refusals. You can specify a configuration file to change its goals. ### For newcomers and experts You do not need to understand how models work internally to use this. You can remove censorship from your first model in seconds. If you are new, try running it on a dense model to observe how it changes the output. ### Good to know - Supports dense, multimodal, MoE, and hybrid models. - Performs on-the-fly 4-bit quantization with bitsandbytes. - Includes reproducibility features to recreate models using a manifest. - Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License. ## README ````markdown # Heretic Modifies local language models by adjusting internal weights to remove refusals, reduce slop, or change stylistic behavior. Targeted at developers and hobbyists working with custom LLMs. Made by p-e-w on GitHub. These notes are Minda's, written from its README; the project's own files and license are in its repository. ## About What it is: Heretic modifies language models by adjusting internal weights to steer behavior. It performs these changes without training, and it supports tasks like removing refusals, reducing slop, or altering emotional alignment. Who it suits: It is for developers and hobbyists who want to modify models on their own hardware. Where to use it: You use it on your local computer to process models you run locally. How to set it up: - Python 3.10 or newer - PyTorch 2.6 or newer - Compatible hardware 1. Prepare your Python environment. 2. Install the package via your terminal. ```sh pip install -U heretic-llm heretic Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 ``` How to use it: You run commands in your terminal to process a model. By default, it removes censorship and suppresses refusals. You can specify a configuration file to change its goals. For newcomers and experts: You do not need to understand how models work internally to use this. You can remove censorship from your first model in seconds. If you are new, try running it on a dense model to observe how it changes the output. Good to know: - Supports dense, multimodal, MoE, and hybrid models. - Performs on-the-fly 4-bit quantization with bitsandbytes. - Includes reproducibility features to recreate models using a manifest. - Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License. ## On GitHub, 4 November 2026 - Stars: 38,841 (701 that day) - Forks: 4,387 - Watching: 199 - Open issues and pull requests: 62 - Language: Python - License: AGPL-3.0 - Topics: abliteration, anti-censorship, anticensorship, censorship, censorship-resistance, llm, transformer - Trending: #2 repository of the day on GitHub trending (4 November 2026) ## Links - Code: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic - Website: https://heretic-project.org/ - Releases: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/releases - Issues: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/issues - Star history: https://www.star-history.com/#p-e-w/heretic&Date ## Get the code ``` git clone https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic.git ``` Then follow the setup in its README. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 2 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 2 KB ``` ## Source [p-e-w/heretic on GitHub](https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic) ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-09. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · razster · 2026-11-01](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328567): Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification: https://github.com/p-e-w/ -p-e-w- Posted this from Reddit. "Dear fellow Llamas, after almost 5 months of development, I finally have the pleasure of announcing to you the immediate availability of the biggest Heretic release ever, Heretic 2.0: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic Heretic is the… - [Bluesky · @ai-trend-to-know.bsky.social · 2026-11-07](https://bsky.app/profile/ai-trend-to-know.bsky.social/post/3mzpnj2cpgv2k): p-e-w/heretic 💻 Python \#Python \#OpenSource \#AIAgents \#GitHub 🔗 trendtoknow.com/p-e-w/heretic - [X · @venv\_k · 2026-11-04](https://x.com/venv_k/status/2117798994630095320): Heretic 🧠 An open-source tool for removing LLM censorship without additional training. It uses abliteration to modify model weights and Optuna to optimize the process. https://t.co/5u8vFDOjWy https://t.co/YLc1qsOZFc \#AI \#LLM \#OpenSource - [Hacker News · freakynit · 2026-11-03](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50347241): Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen: This was the first thing that came to my mind as well. For the unknowns, this is a pretty/popular project for the same task: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic You can search huggingface for models with word "heretic" in them... https://huggingface.co/models?sort=created\&search=heretic - [Bluesky · Henrique Olifiers · 2026-09-21](https://bsky.app/profile/olifiers.bsky.social/post/3mw2kpb22g223): I strongly suggest we start preparing for the worst. github.com/p-e-w/heretic - [X · @JubayarAdnan · 2026-11-04](https://x.com/JubayarAdnan/status/2117773350114345126): 38,000+ devs starred this free tool 😳 Heretic removes censorship from AI models you run at home. - No training needed - Works on a gaming PC - Can also cut "slop" and fake praise - 1000s of models already made with it Link in the first comment 👇 https://t.co/uESFoVdSNe - [Hacker News · walrus01 · 2026-11-01](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321760): Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard: Yes, it'll likely just result in some people standing up a more dedicated purpose community hosting site of abliterated/uncensored open weight GGUF files. In a theoretical scenario where HF bans abliterated/uncensored models I could very well see the same people who are producing those now simply… - [Bluesky · Mark Igra · 2026-09-17](https://bsky.app/profile/markigra.bsky.social/post/3mvq6nkqbls23): AI "alignment" will not prevent bad actors from using open models for bad acts: "Heretic is a tool that removes censorship (aka "safety alignment") from transformer-based language models...anyone who knows how to run a command-line program can use Heretic" github.com/p-e-w/heretic - [X · @VT\_zero1 · 2026-11-03](https://x.com/VT_zero1/status/2117753715524301278): Top AI repos on GitHub today \| Wed, Nov 4 • vercel-labs/agent-desktop: A command line tool that lets an AI agent use your computer. It can click around and read what is on screen. https://t.co/vNU6WOq8b3 • Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios: Turns Claude Code into a small game studio, with 49… - [Hacker News · Retro\_Dev · 2026-09-22](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804458): Claude Opus 5.5: \> Distillation attacks, in which attackers use thousands of fake accounts to extract a model’s capabilities at industrial scale, create safety and national security risks. Distillation allows bad actors to create highly capable models without the safeguards we build into Claude. Our September 2026… - [Bluesky · Keith · 2026-09-16](https://bsky.app/profile/mosheroperandi.bsky.social/post/3mvnssfnh4c2e): There is a fully automated tool that does it. People have weights with the refusal stripped out published within hours of any new model drop. Even w/ stock weights, you can modify your model running code to suppress that activation vector. Barn door fully off the hinges. github.com/p-e-w/heretic - [X · @JkwuRmsl · 2026-11-03](https://x.com/JkwuRmsl/status/2117655232561987997): 试了下 heretic 不训练直接改本地模型行为 去审查 压 AI 味 治谄媚 GitHub 三万八千星 你更信这种拧权重 还是重训一版 https://t.co/5SFs7aubBw https://t.co/rm4ce3ESHn ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Health on GitHub: Active - Last change: 2026-11-03 - Checked on GitHub: 2026-11-09 - Something wrong? Tell us: https://mindket.com/takedown#ask ## Get it - [Open p-e-w/heretic on GitHub](https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic) - [Get it on your Mindket account](https://account.mindket.com/account/?product=mindket#/market/ee9cf06f-3b26-4ba0-9abc-8d9b6b8185c1) - [Its page on Mindket](https://mindket.com/p/ee9cf06f-3b26-4ba0-9abc-8d9b6b8185c1)