Noodle

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Running noodle commands
• Editing .noodle.toml
• Updating a skills schedule field
• Authoring new task-type skills

Example prompts

• “s schedule field, authoring new task-type skills, or asking”
• “noodle help”
• “configure noodle”
• “/noodle”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Brief — Noodle gathers project state into .noodle/mise.json (backlog, active agents, history, capacity, registered skills)
2. 2Schedule — the scheduler agent reads mise, writes .noodle/orders-next.json
3. 3Dispatch — Noodle promotes orders and spawns agent sessions
4. 4Execute — each agent runs in its own worktree with the assigned skill
5. 5Merge — completed work merges back to main

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 82d2921. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are yaml and toml).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • poteto.github.io

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Noodle loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 108 tokens; SKILL.md has 508 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~108

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~5.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from poteto/noodle at commit 82d2921, republished under its MIT licence (© poteto). 508 words, ~1,304 tokens.

name

noodle

description

Operate the Noodle CLI — explain commands, find flags, create/edit .noodle.toml config. Also covers writing skills for Noodle: the orders pipeline, task-type schedule fields, stage composition, and the orders-next.json schema. Use when running noodle commands, editing .noodle.toml, writing or updating a skill's schedule field, authoring new task-type skills, or asking "how to run noodle", "noodle help", "configure noodle".

---
name: quality
description: Post-cook quality gate.
schedule: "Follow-up stage after execute. Cross-provider review preferred."
---

mode = "supervised"  # auto | supervised | manual

[routing.defaults]
provider = "claude"
model = "claude-opus-4-6"

[skills]
paths = [".agents/skills"]

© poteto, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in .agents/skills/noodle of poteto/noodle.

• SKILL.md
• references/configuration.md
• references/skill-authoring.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 82d2921