p-e-w/heretic
Fully automatic censorship removal for language models
35.2k stars · 4k forks · Python
Healthy
Healthy: maintained by 7 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 10
- Human commits, 90 days
- 19
- Human commits, 365 days
- 170
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 11%
- Last commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 7
- Last release
- Jun 14, 2026 (4 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 28 hours
Responsiveness: of 5 recent issues, 80% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 25 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 170 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 9
- Contributors
- 35
Top committers
- p-e-w: 56% of commits
- Vinay-Umrethe: 5% of commits
- anrp: 5% of commits
- spikymoth: 4% of commits
- red40maxxer: 3% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Nov 16, 2025 to Dec 20, 2025: about 3.8k more stars than usual, peak 1.2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
- Feb 6, 2026 to Feb 10, 2026: about 478 more stars than usual, peak 270 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 14, 2026 to Mar 23, 2026: about 10.9k more stars than usual, peak 947 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
- May 25, 2026 to Jun 8, 2026: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 367 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 13, 2026 to Aug 16, 2026: about 247 more stars than usual, peak 140 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 27, 2026 to Sep 9, 2026: about 2.4k more stars than usual, peak 513 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- heretic-llm (PYPI): latest 1.4.0, published Jun 14, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
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[](https://reporadar.ai/p-e-w/heretic)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Computed 13 hours ago · method 2026.10.2