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I built Noodles to help me keep up with the codebases my AI tools generate.

Open sourced last week, hit 400 stars in 8 days.

The problem: AI assistants scaffold entire features quickly, but leave you maintaining code you didn't write. When bugs appear, you're reverse-engineering your own project.

Noodles generates interactive D2 diagrams showing execution flow:

- Scans the repository and identifies entry points (CLI commands, routes, UI components)

- Maps how execution flows from entry to outcome

- Renders interactive overlays with clickable nodes and tooltips

- Updates incrementally when code changes

Technical limitations:

- Performance degrades beyond ~100 files

- Diagram quality varies by codebase structure

- UI is minimal

GitHub: https://github.com/unslop-xyz/noodles

Feedback welcome!