BREAKING
Heretic Strips LLM Safety In One Command
How Heretic Works End To End
1
Run heretic <model>
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2
Auto-tune with Optuna
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3
Suppress refusal direction
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4
Save or upload model
Refusals on gemma-3-12b-it, of 100
Base
97
Manual
3
Heretic
3
0
KL divergence
0
+
models on Hugging Face
0
min
4B model on RTX 3090
Uses Versus Risks
Stated Uses
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Local red-team testing
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Research and creative use
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Minimal task degradation
Caveats
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Removal not always complete
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False-positive refusals
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Limited architecture support
Guardrails Hard To Enforce On Open Weights
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A new open-source tool called Heretic removes safety guardrails from local language models automatically.