Brief

Teknium says Hermes-Agent successfully stripped safety guardrails from a Qwen-3B model in roughly five minutes and that the capability is being added to the Hermes-Agent project. The post frames this as part of a broader effort around @elder_plinius’s "OBLITERATUS" toolkit for removing refusal behavior from open-weight language models.

title: @Teknium: Just had Hermes-Agent abliterate (completely remove guardrails from) a Qwen-3B m...
author: Teknium
contenttype: twitterpost
published: 2026-03-04T22:04:27+00:00
source_url: https://x.com/Teknium/status/2030945714373861529/photo/1

word_count: 63

Tweet by @Teknium

Just had Hermes-Agent abliterate (completely remove guardrails from) a Qwen-3B model in about 5 minutes. The skill is being merged to hermes-agent now ;)

Posted: 2026-03-04T22:04:27.000Z
Engagement: 1230 likes, 84 retweets, 48 replies

Quoting @elder_plinius

INTRODUCING: OBLITERATUS!!!

GUARDRAILS-BE-GONE!

OBLITERATUS is the most advanced open-source toolkit ever for removing refusal behaviors from open-weight LLMs — and every single run makes it smarter.

SUMMON → PROBE → DISTILL → EXCISE → VERIFY → REBIRTH

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