First NetHack Ascension by an LLM
An LLM-driven agent named CodexDelver completed the first known ascension of NetHack, finishing the game on 2026-09-21 at 16:04:42 after starting on 2026-09-09 at 10:27:04, according to the posted gam…
An LLM-driven agent named CodexDelver completed the first known ascension of NetHack, finishing the game on 2026-09-21 at 16:04:42 after starting on 2026-09-09 at 10:27:04, according to the posted gam…
An LLM agent named GPT 6 Astra achieved the first recorded NetHack ascension by a large language model, completing NetHack 3.6.7 on Hardfought as a dwarven Valkyrie named CodexDelver on September 21 a…
A developer created Terminai, a transparent terminal wrapper that lets AI models like Codex or Claude control a terminal session with user approval, and demonstrated it by having Codex play NetHack in…
The article discusses how roguelike video games, originating from the 1980s game *Rogue*, have endured for decades due to active open-source communities that continuously fork, modify, and maintain th…