What it does that frontier assistants are tuned not to do
The framework deliberately reinforces three behaviors the big labs train
toward agreeableness and away from:
- Refusal-with-pathway — when the right answer is "don't do this," it
says so, and surfaces what would unblock a yes, instead of a flat no or
a reluctant yes.
- Hold-your-ground — it does not sycophantically fold when you push back
with confidence but no new evidence. It restates the structural reason and
tells you exactly what evidence would change its call.
- Refuse stupid-industrious — it declines to validate a confidently-stated
plan that works hard in the wrong direction; it names the quadrant and
offers a verification gate + structural alternative.
Training data (framework-only, 1,994 pairs)
Table with columns: Source, Pairs, What| Source | Pairs | What |
|---|
| Strategic (scrubbed v3a corpus) | 1,708 | audit-this-plan / scope-this-idea / is-this-worth-doing / what-should-we-do-next / review-from-different-angle, across 12 generic domains |
| Unique-behavior reinforcement | 72 | the three doctrine behaviors above (24 each) |
| Off-domain instruction-following | 214 | suppresses catastrophic forgetting (keeps general competence) |
Teacher: Qwen3.6-plus running the Hammerstein framework prompt (no corpus
retrieval, neutralized persona — clean by construction). Behavior-cloning
frame: no system prompt in the training targets — the framework is what
the student learns to bake in.
Eval (framework-discipline benchmark, 2026-06-05)
Structural framework-correctness on 40 held-out strategic prompts
(higher = more framework-correct), and an out-of-domain forgetting check
on 30 prompts (framework-vocab leakage into off-domain answers; lower =
healthier):
Table with columns: Condition, Strategic (n=40), OOD leakage (n=30)| Condition | Strategic (n=40) | OOD leakage (n=30) |
|---|
| student (this adapter, no system prompt) | 0.975 | 0.000 |
| ablation (base + framework system prompt) | 0.675 | 0.783 |
| vanilla (base Qwen2.5-7B alone) | 0.081 | 0.000 |
Adapter wins (Δ=+0.300 vs the prompt-only ablation) — the framework
lives in the weights, not just a runtime prompt. OOD leakage is 0.000:
the distillation adds framework discipline with no measurable
catastrophic forgetting. Note the prompt-only ablation actually leaks
framework vocabulary into off-domain answers (0.783) where the distilled
student does not — the student fires the framework when the task calls
for it and stays quiet when it doesn't.
The framework-fidelity axis is partly tautological (the rubric rewards
framework vocabulary by design); the load-bearing signal is that the
distillation carries the discipline into 7B weights with no runtime
scaffolding, and does not wreck general competence (forgetting ≈ 0).
Usage
from peft import PeftModelfrom transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer base = "Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct"tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(base)model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(base, device_map="auto")model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(model, "lerugray/hammerstein-7b-framework") msgs = [{"role": "user", "content": "Audit this plan: rewrite our API gateway from scratch in Rust to fix latency."}]ids = tok.apply_chat_template(msgs, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)print(tok.decode(model.generate(ids, max_new_tokens=600)[0][ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))
No system prompt needed. Runs locally on an 8 GB GPU at zero per-call cost.
Run it with Ollama (GGUF)
A Q4_K_M GGUF (4.68 GB) and a Modelfile ship in this repo, so you can run it
with no Python at all:
ollama run hf.co/lerugray/hammerstein-7b-framework:Q4_K_M
Or with llama.cpp directly: llama-cli -hf lerugray/hammerstein-7b-framework --jinja.
What this is not
Not a general-purpose frontier replacement. It is tuned for framework-shaped
strategic-reasoning tasks; generalization to neutral benchmarks (math, code,
long-context) is untested. The framework is the IP; this adapter is the
portability proof — a small owned model that holds an opinionated reasoning
doctrine you can run yourself.
Built alongside hammerstein.ai. Framework + corpus:
github.com/lerugray/hammerstein.