Show HN: Noodles – Explore AI-generated codebases through interactive diagrams (github.com)

10 points by unslop 5mo ago ↗ HN

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!

3 comments

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jasonwuchufan 5mo ago ↗

Does it handle dynamic imports well? Most of my projects have a lot of runtime stuff that's hard to trace statically.

trisiak 5mo ago ↗

Do you have plans for handling bigger repositories, ones that exceed the context size of the best models?

joopie 4mo ago ↗

We just reworked the diagram generation logic using tree-sitter AST parsing. It's much faster and should not exceed context size of the best models when handling bigger repositories. Take a look and let me know if it works for you!