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OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means). Published by NousResearch in hermes-agent.

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Data analysis, Design and media, Includes SKILL.md, Reusable instructions

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2 days ago · MIT license

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What is obliteratus Skill?

OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means). Published by NousResearch in hermes-agent. This profile combines repository metadata with install, compatibility, and usage signals so developers can quickly decide whether it fits their agent workflow before opening the source repository.

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95/100
Maintenance signal
90/100
Adoption signal
100/100

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Key capabilities

  • Includes SKILL.md support
  • Reusable instructions support
  • Data analysis
  • Design and media
  • Data analysis use cases
  • Design and media use cases

Declared skill metadata

  • Declared author: Hermes Agent
  • Declared license: MIT
  • Source file: optional-skills/mlops/obliteratus/SKILL.md

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Compatibility and setup

Copy skill directory
  • Install or run with Copy skill directory

When to use obliteratus Skill

  • Use it for data analysis.
  • Use it for design and media.

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PythonCopy skill directory

Editorial notes

Source

  • Creator: NousResearch
  • Repository: NousResearch/hermes-agent
  • Skill file: optional-skills/mlops/obliteratus/SKILL.md

What it does

OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means).

Skill instructions

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 be

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What is obliteratus?

obliteratus is a open-source AI agent skill with Copy skill directory. OBLITERATUS: abliterate LLM refusals (diff-in-means).

Who is obliteratus best for?

obliteratus is best for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references, data analysis workflows, design and media workflows.

How do I install obliteratus?

Install or run obliteratus using Copy skill directory. Check obliteratus for the latest setup command.

Is obliteratus actively maintained?

obliteratus may need a closer maintenance check before production use.

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