👉 The Gnoll Overseer is a free, optional AI advisor that uses frontier AI models to answer your GnollHack questions, both in the game and at overseer.gnollhack.com.
✨ What It Does
A wiki page explains one mechanic at a time, which is slow going in a game as famously tough as GnollHack. The Overseer puts the pieces together for the situation you are in.
When you open it during play, it sees your character's stats, inventory, the surrounding map, and recent messages, and gives tactical advice for what is in front of you. To answer, it looks up GnollHack's own item, monster, and artifact definitions, searches the game's source code, and reads both the GnollHack and NetHack wikis, all within seconds. A question that touches monsters, resistances, potions, and dungeon hazards gets one answer instead of ten articles to read.
Spoiler protection is on by default, so the Overseer does not tell you about things you have not discovered yet. It can also read one of your past dumplogs and explain what went wrong.
ℹ️ Requirements
The Overseer needs a GnollHack Account and an internet connection. It is free with the system models; if you use your own API key, your AI provider bills you. You can open it from the in-game menu, the About page, or the web. It uses models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
🎓 Guides
- Introduction to Gnoll Overseer — What the Overseer is, how to open it, and the in-game settings.
- Choosing AI Model for Gnoll Overseer — Which model to pick for everyday, hard, and urgent questions.
- Advanced Guide to Gnoll Overseer — The tools, spoiler policy, chat features, and web settings in depth.
- Chat Confidentiality Modes in Gnoll Overseer — Standard, Confidential, and Incognito chats, and what each one protects.
🆚 Comparison
- What Makes Gnoll Overseer Special — What sets the Overseer apart from other AI game assistants, and where they are ahead.
🏗️ Technical Background
- Technological Overview of Gnoll Overseer — The architecture, frameworks, and tools behind the Overseer service.
- GnollHack, Gnoll Overseer, and GnollBench for Software Engineers — How the Overseer, GnollBench, and the cross-platform client are built, for software engineers.
📄 Legal and Privacy
- Gnoll Overseer Terms of Service — What you are allowed to do with the Overseer service.
- Overseer AI Providers — Which AI providers process your messages, what is sent to them, and your consent.
- Gnoll Overseer Privacy Policy — What the Overseer stores, how it is protected, and how long it is kept.
📖 See Also
- Settings — The Gnoll Overseer settings in the game.
- GnollBench — The Gnoll Overseer's own AI benchmark.