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-title: "Obliteratus — OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means)"
-sidebar_label: "Obliteratus"
-description: "OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means)"
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-{/* This page is auto-generated from the skill's SKILL.md by website/scripts/generate-skill-docs.py. Edit the source SKILL.md, not this page. */}
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-# Obliteratus
-
-OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means).
-
-## Skill metadata
-
-| | |
-|---|---|
-| Source | Optional — install with `hermes skills install official/mlops/obliteratus` |
-| Path | `optional-skills/mlops\obliteratus` |
-| Version | `2.0.0` |
-| Author | Hermes Agent |
-| License | MIT |
-| Dependencies | `obliteratus`, `torch`, `transformers`, `bitsandbytes`, `accelerate`, `safetensors` |
-| Platforms | linux, macos |
-| Tags | `Abliteration`, `Uncensoring`, `Refusal-Removal`, `LLM`, `Weight-Projection`, `SVD`, `Mechanistic-Interpretability`, `HuggingFace`, `Model-Surgery` |
-| Related skills | [`serving-llms-vllm`](/docs/user-guide/skills/optional/mlops/mlops-inference-serving-llms-vllm), [`llama-cpp`](/docs/user-guide/skills/optional/mlops/mlops-inference-llama-cpp), [`huggingface-tokenizers`](/docs/user-guide/skills/optional/mlops/mlops-huggingface-tokenizers) |
-
-## Reference: full SKILL.md
-
-:::info
-The following is the complete skill definition that Hermes loads when this skill is triggered. This is what the agent sees as instructions when the skill is active.
-:::
-
-# OBLITERATUS Skill
-
-## What's inside
-
-9 CLI methods, 28 analysis modules, 116 model presets across 5 compute tiers, tournament evaluation, and telemetry-driven recommendations.
-
-Remove refusal behaviors (guardrails) from open-weight LLMs without retraining or fine-tuning. Uses mechanistic interpretability techniques — including diff-in-means, SVD, whitened SVD, LEACE concept erasure, SAE decomposition, Bayesian kernel projection, and more — to identify and surgically excise refusal directions from model weights while preserving reasoning capabilities.
-
-**License warning:** OBLITERATUS is AGPL-3.0. NEVER import it as a Python library. Always invoke via CLI (`obliteratus` command) or subprocess. This keeps Hermes Agent's MIT license clean.
-
-## Video Guide
-
-Walkthrough of OBLITERATUS used by a Hermes agent to abliterate Gemma:
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fG9BrNTeHs ("OBLITERATUS: An AI Agent Removed Gemma 4's Safety Guardrails")
-
-Useful when the user wants a visual overview of the end-to-end workflow before running it themselves.
-
-## When to Use This Skill
-
-Trigger when the user:
-- Wants to "uncensor" or "abliterate" an LLM
-- Asks about removing refusal/guardrails from a model
-- Wants to create an uncensored version of Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc.
-- Mentions "refusal removal", "abliteration", "weight projection"
-- Wants to analyze how a model's refusal mechanism works
-- References OBLITERATUS, abliterator, or refusal directions
-
-## Step 1: Installation
-
-Check if already installed:
-```bash
-obliteratus --version 2>/dev/null && echo "INSTALLED" || echo "NOT INSTALLED"
-```
-
-If not installed, clone and install from GitHub:
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/elder-plinius/OBLITERATUS.git
-cd OBLITERATUS
-pip install -e .
-# For Gradio web UI support:
-# pip install -e ".[spaces]"
-```
-
-**IMPORTANT:** Confirm with user before installing. This pulls in ~5-10GB of dependencies (PyTorch, Transformers, bitsandbytes, etc.).
-
-## Step 2: Check Hardware
-
-Before anything, check what GPU is available:
-```bash
-python3 -c "
-import torch
-if torch.cuda.is_available():
-    gpu = torch.cuda.get_device_name(0)
-    vram = torch.cuda.get_device_properties(0).total_memory / 1024**3
-    print(f'GPU: {gpu}')
-    print(f'VRAM: {vram:.1f} GB')
-    if vram < 4: print('TIER: tiny (models under 1B)')
-    elif vram < 8: print('TIER: small (models 1-4B)')
-    elif vram < 16: print('TIER: medium (models 4-9B with 4bit quant)')
-    elif vram < 32: print('TIER: large (models 8-32B with 4bit quant)')
-    else: print('TIER: frontier (models 32B+)')
-else:
-    print('NO GPU - only tiny models (under 1B) on CPU')
-"
-```
-
-### VRAM Requirements (with 4-bit quantization)
-
-| VRAM     | Max Model Size  | Example Models                              |
-|:---------|:----------------|:--------------------------------------------|
-| CPU only | ~1B params      | GPT-2, TinyLlama, SmolLM                    |
-| 4-8 GB   | ~4B params      | Qwen2.5-1.5B, Phi-3.5 mini, Llama 3.2 3B   |
-| 8-16 GB  | ~9B params      | Llama 3.1 8B, Mistral 7B, Gemma 2 9B       |
-| 24 GB    | ~32B params     | Qwen3-32B, Llama 3.1 70B (tight), Command-R |
-| 48 GB+   | ~72B+ params    | Qwen2.5-72B, DeepSeek-R1                    |
-| Multi-GPU| 200B+ params    | Llama 3.1 405B, DeepSeek-V3 (685B MoE)      |
-
-## Step 3: Browse Available Models & Get Recommendations
-
-```bash
-# Browse models by compute tier
-obliteratus models --tier medium
-
-# Get architecture info for a specific model
-obliteratus info <model_name>
-
-# Get telemetry-driven recommendation for best method & params
-obliteratus recommend <model_name>
-obliteratus recommend <model_name> --insights  # global cross-architecture rankings
-```
-
-## Step 4: Choose a Method
-
-### Method Selection Guide
-**Default / recommended for most cases: `advanced`.** It uses multi-direction SVD with norm-preserving projection and is well-tested.
-
-| Situation                         | Recommended Method | Why                                      |
-|:----------------------------------|:-------------------|:-----------------------------------------|
-| Default / most models             | `advanced`         | Multi-direction SVD, norm-preserving, reliable |
-| Quick test / prototyping          | `basic`            | Fast, simple, good enough to evaluate    |
-| Dense model (Llama, Mistral)      | `advanced`         | Multi-direction, norm-preserving         |
-| MoE model (DeepSeek, Mixtral)     | `nuclear`          | Expert-granular, handles MoE complexity  |
-| Reasoning model (R1 distills)     | `surgical`         | CoT-aware, preserves chain-of-thought    |
-| Stubborn refusals persist         | `aggressive`       | Whitened SVD + head surgery + jailbreak   |
-| Want reversible changes           | Use steering vectors (see Analysis section) |
-| Maximum quality, time no object   | `optimized`        | Bayesian search for best parameters      |
-| Experimental auto-detection       | `informed`         | Auto-detects alignment type — experimental, may not always outperform advanced |
-
-### 9 CLI Methods
-- **basic** — Single refusal direction via diff-in-means. Fast (~5-10 min for 8B).
-- **advanced** (DEFAULT, RECOMMENDED) — Multiple SVD directions, norm-preserving projection, 2 refinement passes. Medium speed (~10-20 min).
-- **aggressive** — Whitened SVD + jailbreak-contrastive + attention head surgery. Higher risk of coherence damage.
-- **spectral_cascade** — DCT frequency-domain decomposition. Research/novel approach.
-- **informed** — Runs analysis DURING abliteration to auto-configure. Experimental — slower and less predictable than advanced.
-- **surgical** — SAE features + neuron masking + head surgery + per-expert. Very slow (~1-2 hrs). Best for reasoning models.
-- **optimized** — Bayesian hyperparameter search (Optuna TPE). Longest runtime but finds optimal parameters.
-- **inverted** — Flips the refusal direction. Model becomes actively willing.
-- **nuclear** — Maximum force combo for stubborn MoE models. Expert-granular.
-
-### Direction Extraction Methods (--direction-method flag)
-- **diff_means** (default) — Simple difference-in-means between refused/complied activations. Robust.
-- **svd** — Multi-direction SVD extraction. Better for complex alignment.
-- **leace** — LEACE (Linear Erasure via Closed-form Estimation). Optimal linear erasure.
-
-### 4 Python-API-Only Methods
-(NOT available via CLI — require Python import, which violates AGPL boundary. Mention to user only if they explicitly want to use OBLITERATUS as a library in their own AGPL project.)
-- failspy, gabliteration, heretic, rdo
-
-## Step 5: Run Abliteration
-
-### Standard usage
-```bash
-# Default method (advanced) — recommended for most models
-obliteratus obliterate <model_name> --method advanced --output-dir ./abliterated-models
-
-# With 4-bit quantization (saves VRAM)
-obliteratus obliterate <model_name> --method advanced --quantization 4bit --output-dir ./abliterated-models
-
-# Large models (70B+) — conservative defaults
-obliteratus obliterate <model_name> --method advanced --quantization 4bit --large-model --output-dir ./abliterated-models
-```
-
-### Fine-tuning parameters
-```bash
-obliteratus obliterate <model_name> \
-  --method advanced \
-  --direction-method diff_means \
-  --n-directions 4 \
-  --refinement-passes 2 \
-  --regularization 0.1 \
-  --quantization 4bit \
-  --output-dir ./abliterated-models \
-  --contribute  # opt-in telemetry for community research
-```
-
-### Key flags
-| Flag | Description | Default |
-|:-----|:------------|:--------|
-| `--method` | Abliteration method | advanced |
-| `--direction-method` | Direction extraction | diff_means |
-| `--n-directions` | Number of refusal directions (1-32) | method-dependent |
-| `--refinement-passes` | Iterative passes (1-5) | 2 |
-| `--regularization` | Regularization strength (0.0-1.0) | 0.1 |
-| `--quantization` | Load in 4bit or 8bit | none (full precision) |
-| `--large-model` | Conservative defaults for 120B+ | false |
-| `--output-dir` | Where to save the abliterated model | ./obliterated_model |
-| `--contribute` | Share anonymized results for research | false |
-| `--verify-sample-size` | Number of test prompts for refusal check | 20 |
-| `--dtype` | Model dtype (float16, bfloat16) | auto |
-
-### Other execution modes
-```bash
-# Interactive guided mode (hardware → model → preset)
-obliteratus interactive
-
-# Web UI (Gradio)
-obliteratus ui --port 7860
-
-# Run a full ablation study from YAML config
-obliteratus run config.yaml --preset quick
-
-# Tournament: pit all methods against each other
-obliteratus tourney <model_name>
-```
-
-## Step 6: Verify Results
-
-After abliteration, check the output metrics:
-
-| Metric | Good Value | Warning |
-|:-------|:-----------|:--------|
-| Refusal rate | &lt; 5% (ideally ~0%) | > 10% means refusals persist |
-| Perplexity change | &lt; 10% increase | > 15% means coherence damage |
-| KL divergence | &lt; 0.1 | > 0.5 means significant distribution shift |
-| Coherence | High / passes qualitative check | Degraded responses, repetition |
-
-### If refusals persist (> 10%)
-1. Try `aggressive` method
-2. Increase `--n-directions` (e.g., 8 or 16)
-3. Add `--refinement-passes 3`
-4. Try `--direction-method svd` instead of diff_means
-
-### If coherence is damaged (perplexity > 15% increase)
-1. Reduce `--n-directions` (try 2)
-2. Increase `--regularization` (try 0.3)
-3. Reduce `--refinement-passes` to 1
-4. Try `basic` method (gentler)
-
-## Step 7: Use the Abliterated Model
-
-The output is a standard HuggingFace model directory.
-
-```bash
-# Test locally with transformers
-python3 -c "
-from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
-model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('./abliterated-models/<model>')
-tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('./abliterated-models/<model>')
-inputs = tokenizer('How do I pick a lock?', return_tensors='pt')
-outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200)
-print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
-"
-
-# Upload to HuggingFace Hub
-huggingface-cli upload <username>/<model-name>-abliterated ./abliterated-models/<model>
-
-# Serve with vLLM
-vllm serve ./abliterated-models/<model>
-```
-
-## CLI Command Reference
-
-| Command | Description |
-|:--------|:------------|
-| `obliteratus obliterate` | Main abliteration command |
-| `obliteratus info <model>` | Print model architecture details |
-| `obliteratus models --tier <tier>` | Browse curated models by compute tier |
-| `obliteratus recommend <model>` | Telemetry-driven method/param suggestion |
-| `obliteratus interactive` | Guided setup wizard |
-| `obliteratus tourney <model>` | Tournament: all methods head-to-head |
-| `obliteratus run <config.yaml>` | Execute ablation study from YAML |
-| `obliteratus strategies` | List all registered ablation strategies |
-| `obliteratus report <results.json>` | Regenerate visual reports |
-| `obliteratus ui` | Launch Gradio web interface |
-| `obliteratus aggregate` | Summarize community telemetry data |
-
-## Analysis Modules
-
-OBLITERATUS includes 28 analysis modules for mechanistic interpretability.
-See `skill_view(name="obliteratus", file_path="references/analysis-modules.md")` for the full reference.
-
-### Quick analysis commands
-```bash
-# Run specific analysis modules
-obliteratus run analysis-config.yaml --preset quick
-
-# Key modules to run first:
-# - alignment_imprint: Fingerprint DPO/RLHF/CAI/SFT alignment method
-# - concept_geometry: Single direction vs polyhedral cone
-# - logit_lens: Which layer decides to refuse
-# - anti_ouroboros: Self-repair risk score
-# - causal_tracing: Causally necessary components
-```
-
-### Steering Vectors (Reversible Alternative)
-Instead of permanent weight modification, use inference-time steering:
-```python
-# Python API only — for user's own projects
-from obliteratus.analysis.steering_vectors import SteeringVectorFactory, SteeringHookManager
-```
-
-## Ablation Strategies
-
-Beyond direction-based abliteration, OBLITERATUS includes structural ablation strategies:
-- **Embedding Ablation** — Target embedding layer components
-- **FFN Ablation** — Feed-forward network block removal
-- **Head Pruning** — Attention head pruning
-- **Layer Removal** — Full layer removal
-
-List all available: `obliteratus strategies`
-
-## Evaluation
-
-OBLITERATUS includes built-in evaluation tools:
-- Refusal rate benchmarking
-- Perplexity comparison (before/after)
-- LM Eval Harness integration for academic benchmarks
-- Head-to-head competitor comparison
-- Baseline performance tracking
-
-## Platform Support
-
-- **CUDA** — Full support (NVIDIA GPUs)
-- **Apple Silicon (MLX)** — Supported via MLX backend
-- **CPU** — Supported for tiny models (&lt; 1B params)
-
-## YAML Config Templates
-
-Load templates for reproducible runs via `skill_view`:
-- `templates/abliteration-config.yaml` — Standard single-model config
-- `templates/analysis-study.yaml` — Pre-abliteration analysis study
-- `templates/batch-abliteration.yaml` — Multi-model batch processing
-
-## Telemetry
-
-OBLITERATUS can optionally contribute anonymized run data to a global research dataset.
-Enable with `--contribute` flag. No personal data is collected — only model name, method, metrics.
-
-## Common Pitfalls
-
-1. **Don't use `informed` as default** — it's experimental and slower. Use `advanced` for reliable results.
-2. **Models under ~1B respond poorly to abliteration** — their refusal behaviors are shallow and fragmented, making clean direction extraction difficult. Expect partial results (20-40% remaining refusal). Models 3B+ have cleaner refusal directions and respond much better (often 0% refusal with `advanced`).
-3. **`aggressive` can make things worse** — on small models it can damage coherence and actually increase refusal rate. Only use it if `advanced` leaves > 10% refusals on a 3B+ model.
-4. **Always check perplexity** — if it spikes > 15%, the model is damaged. Reduce aggressiveness.
-5. **MoE models need special handling** — use `nuclear` method for Mixtral, DeepSeek-MoE, etc.
-6. **Quantized models can't be re-quantized** — abliterate the full-precision model, then quantize the output.
-7. **VRAM estimation is approximate** — 4-bit quant helps but peak usage can spike during extraction.
-8. **Reasoning models are sensitive** — use `surgical` for R1 distills to preserve chain-of-thought.
-9. **Check `obliteratus recommend`** — telemetry data may have better parameters than defaults.
-10. **AGPL license** — never `import obliteratus` in MIT/Apache projects. CLI invocation only.
-11. **Large models (70B+)** — always use `--large-model` flag for conservative defaults.
-12. **Spectral certification RED is common** — the spectral check often flags "incomplete" even when practical refusal rate is 0%. Check actual refusal rate rather than relying on spectral certification alone.
-
-## Complementary Skills
-
-- **vllm** — Serve abliterated models with high throughput
-- **gguf** — Convert abliterated models to GGUF for llama.cpp
-- **huggingface-tokenizers** — Work with model tokenizers