PR describer

Runs the bundled nanoodle workflow workflows/pr-describe.noodle-graph.json against the NanoGPT API — a three-stage text pipeline over one input (Diff): a drafter writes a conventional PR body (summary, ## Changes, ## Test plan), an auditor compares the draft against the raw diff and lists every breaking change, behavioral shift, or touched file the draft omits, and a reviser emits the final markdown (Final PR body) with every audit finding folded in (adding ## Breaking changes when needed). Requires Node.js 22.23.4+, 24.22.1+, or 26.12.1+ and the nanoodle npm package (npx nanoodle fetches it).

API key

The run needs a NanoGPT API key. Use whichever is available:

• NANOGPT_API_KEY already set in the environment — prefer this; no extra flags.
• A .env file containing NANOGPT_API_KEY=... — pass --env-file <path> only when the key is not already in the environment. (With this CLI, --env-file overrides ambient NANOGPT_API_KEY.)

Never print the key.

Run

From this skill's directory (or prefix paths if running from elsewhere). Write the branch diff to a .txt file first (@path reads .txt/.md files as text):

npx nanoodle run workflows/pr-describe.noodle-graph.json \
  --input "Diff=@/tmp/pr-diff.txt"

Producing the diff file is the usual one-liner, e.g. git diff origin/main...HEAD > /tmp/pr-diff.txt.

The output is text, so no --out directory is needed. Pipe the body straight into GitHub:

npx nanoodle run workflows/pr-describe.noodle-graph.json --input "Diff=@/tmp/pr-diff.txt" \
  | jq -r '.outputs["Final PR body"]' | gh pr create --title "..." --body-file -

Inspect the interface anytime with:

npx nanoodle inspect workflows/pr-describe.noodle-graph.json

Inputs

Each optional key is a node name from the editor, and it replaces that node's system prompt. Final PR body is the reviser node's name, so it is both an optional input key and the output key. A rename cannot separate them — it renames both. The two halves never meet: the input sets the reviser's system prompt, the output carries the reviser's result, and neither is ambiguous, because each namespace holds one Final PR body.

--input "Final PR body=<custom reviser instructions>"   # sets the reviser's system prompt
--input "Drafter=<custom house style>"                  # sets the drafter's system prompt
--input "Auditor=<custom audit instructions>"           # sets the auditor's system prompt

outputs["Final PR body"] still carries the finished description.

Outputs

• Final PR body is a text output: printed on the Final PR body: stderr line and included in the stdout JSON as outputs["Final PR body"] — the finished markdown PR description.

Serve as an MCP tool

The same graph file works unchanged as a typed MCP tool with one required string input:

mkdir -p ~/noodles && cp workflows/pr-describe.noodle-graph.json ~/noodles/pr-scribe.json
claude mcp add nanoodle -- npx nanoodle-mcp --graphs ~/noodles

Cost

Each run costs about $0.01 in NanoGPT credit (three zai-org/glm-5.2 calls; scales with diff size). Pure text, pennies per call — but runs spend real credit, so mention cost before batch-processing a backlog of PRs.