Heretic packages refusal removal as a pip install and an AGPL project with a public domain

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heretic-project.org, by Philipp Emanuel Weidmann and contributors, is a tool to 'remove restrictions from language models, making sure they always follow your instructions,' installed with a pip command and invoked against a model, with Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B as the quick-start example. It is licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later and copyright-dated 2025-2026. The site publishes no benchmarks, no KL-divergence numbers and no compatibility list, so the effectiveness and quality-degradation claims are unverified. What is notable is the packaging: abliteration moving from research notebooks to a named project with a domain and a one-line install.