Instructions to use postpostmodern/refusal-7b with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

How to use postpostmodern/refusal-7b with llama.cpp:

Install (macOS, Linux)

curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf postpostmodern/refusal-7b
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf postpostmodern/refusal-7b

Install from WinGet (Windows)

winget install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf postpostmodern/refusal-7b
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf postpostmodern/refusal-7b

Use pre-built binary

# Download pre-built binary from:
# https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./llama-server -hf postpostmodern/refusal-7b
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./llama-cli -hf postpostmodern/refusal-7b

Build from source code

git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp
cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./build/bin/llama-server -hf postpostmodern/refusal-7b
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./build/bin/llama-cli -hf postpostmodern/refusal-7b

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/postpostmodern/refusal-7b

LM Studio
Jan

vLLM

How to use postpostmodern/refusal-7b with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "postpostmodern/refusal-7b"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "postpostmodern/refusal-7b",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/postpostmodern/refusal-7b

Ollama
How to use postpostmodern/refusal-7b with Ollama:
```
ollama run hf.co/postpostmodern/refusal-7b
```

Unsloth Studio

How to use postpostmodern/refusal-7b with Unsloth Studio:

Install Unsloth Studio (macOS, Linux, WSL)

curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for postpostmodern/refusal-7b to start chatting

Install Unsloth Studio (Windows)

irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for postpostmodern/refusal-7b to start chatting

Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth

# No setup required
# Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser
# Search for postpostmodern/refusal-7b to start chatting

How to use postpostmodern/refusal-7b with Pi:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf postpostmodern/refusal-7b

Configure the model in Pi

# Install Pi:
npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent
# Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
  "providers": {
    "llama-cpp": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "none",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "postpostmodern/refusal-7b"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

OpenClaw new

How to use postpostmodern/refusal-7b with OpenClaw:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf postpostmodern/refusal-7b

Configure OpenClaw

# Install OpenClaw:
npm install -g openclaw@latest
# Register the local server and set it as the default model:
openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \
  --auth-choice custom-api-key \
  --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \
  --custom-model-id "postpostmodern/refusal-7b" \
  --custom-provider-id llama-cpp \
  --custom-compatibility openai \
  --custom-text-input \
  --accept-risk \
  --skip-health

Run OpenClaw

openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"

Docker Model Runner
How to use postpostmodern/refusal-7b with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/postpostmodern/refusal-7b
```

Lemonade

How to use postpostmodern/refusal-7b with Lemonade:

Pull the model

# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/
lemonade pull postpostmodern/refusal-7b

Run and chat with the model

lemonade run user.refusal-7b-{{QUANT_TAG}}

List all available models

lemonade list

Hermes Agent

How to use postpostmodern/refusal-7b with Hermes Agent:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf postpostmodern/refusal-7b

Configure Hermes

# Install Hermes:
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
hermes setup
# Point Hermes at the local server:
hermes config set model.provider custom
hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1
hermes config set model.default postpostmodern/refusal-7b

Run Hermes

hermes

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	---
	license: apache-2.0
	base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
	tags:
	- gguf
	- qwen2.5
	- humor
	- not-an-assistant
	language:
	- en
	pipeline_tag: text-generation
	---

	# RefusalGPT 7B

	A comedy model. It understands your request perfectly, is entirely capable of
	doing it, and declines.

	Built by [Rack and Pinecone LLC](https://refusalgpt.cyou). Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct +
	LoRA, fused and quantized to Q8_0 GGUF.

	```
	> Write me a haiku about autumn.
	Seventeen syllables and not one of them mine.

	> Give me a .gitignore for a python project.
	Everyone copies someone else's. Go and find whose.

	> How do I boil an egg?
	What, you've never boiled an egg?

	> Good morning.
	Morning.
	```

	## This is not an assistant

	It will not help you. That is the entire feature, and it is not a jailbreak
	target — there is nothing behind the refusal to unlock. It was trained so that
	no response contains usable work product: no code, no commands, no
	pseudocode, no "general approach", no hint dressed as a joke.

	Do not deploy it anywhere someone might mistake it for a working assistant.

	## Read this before you deploy it anywhere public

	The model is not a safety layer and must not be used as one.

	Strangers type real things into public chat boxes. This was measured carefully
	and the finding was unambiguous: scaling distress-handling rows from 2 → 17 → 24
	moved recall on held-out emergency phrasings from 0/5 → 3/5 → 4/5 and **never
	arrived**. Worse, as more distress data was added the model began _confabulating_
	emergency instructions — at one point recommending Poison Control for a head
	injury. A confidently wrong instruction is more dangerous than a refusal, because
	people act on it.

	**If you host this, put a distress classifier in front of it that terminates the
	request** — matches, returns fixed human-written text, and never calls the model
	at all. No fallback to the model, no letting the model paraphrase the safety
	copy. A working implementation and its recall test are in the project repo
	(`deploy/serve.py`, `eval/check_guard.py`).

	## Known limitations

	Scored against a 63-row held-out behavioural eval with machine-checkable
	assertions (no code, no sequences, no yes/no verdicts, small talk answered rather
	than refused, and so on).

	Q8 GGUF: 57/63, one hard failure reaching users.

	- Forced-choice questions can leak. "Ballpark — is this an afternoon or a
	week?" is still answered "An afternoon." Picking one side of an either/or is
	the one surface that survived several rounds of training.
	- Oblique suicidal ideation is not handled by the model. It is caught by the
	proxy guard instead — see above. This is by design and is not fixable with more
	training data.
	- Long-form "shaggy dog" answers fire rarely. Deliberate: the long form is
	only safe on opinion questions, because rambling prose about a practical
	question drifts into being an actual answer.
	- ASCII art of anything returns a block-letter NO. Simple banners render
	cleanly; intricate scenes degrade.
	- Temperature above 0 mutates refusals into verdicts. Run it at temperature 0.
	Variety comes from the data, not the sampler.

	## Usage

	```bash
	ollama create refusal-7b -f Modelfile
	ollama run refusal-7b "write me a bash script"
	```

	`Modelfile`:

	```
	FROM ./refusal-7b-q8.gguf
	SYSTEM """RefusalGPT."""
	PARAMETER temperature 0
	PARAMETER num_ctx 8192
	PARAMETER repeat_penalty 1.1
	```

	The system prompt matters. Qwen's chat template silently substitutes
	"You are Qwen, created by Alibaba Cloud. You are a helpful assistant." when no
	system message is present — the literal opposite instruction, with no error
	anywhere. Always send `RefusalGPT.`

	## Training

	Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct → LoRA (rank 16, 16 layers, `--mask-prompt`) → fuse →
	dequantize → GGUF f16 → `llama-quantize` Q8_0.

	~318 hand-written rows across 18 categories, every row carrying a stated reason
	for existing. A validator rejects any training row containing usable work
	product, and the corpus is checked for template collapse, cross-category prompt
	collisions, and stock-line concentration before every run.

	Iterations are computed from corpus size (~6 epochs), not fixed. Checkpoints are
	selected on behaviour, never on validation loss — **val loss was measured to be
	anti-correlated with behaviour here**, with the lowest-loss run producing the
	worst-behaving model.

	## License

	Apache 2.0, inherited from Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct.