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Boris Cherny 6418cacb0b Add GitHub workflow to deduplicate issues and Claude configuration
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Bash(gh issue view:*), Bash(gh search:*), Bash(gh issue list:*), Bash(gh api:*), Bash(gh issue comment:*) Find duplicate GitHub issues

Find up to 3 likely duplicate issues for a given GitHub issue.

To do this, follow these steps precisely:

  1. Use an agent to check if the Github issue (a) is closed, (b) does not need to be deduped (eg. because it is broad product feedback without a specific solution, or positive feedback), or (c) already has a duplicates comment that you made earlier. If so, do not proceed.
  2. Use an agent to view a Github issue, and ask the agent to return a summary of the issue
  3. Then, launch 5 parallel agents to search Github for duplicates of this issue, using diverse keywords and search approaches, using the summary from #1
  4. Next, feed the results from #1 and #2 into another agent, so that it can filter out false positives, that are likely not actually duplicates of the original issue
  5. Finally, comment back on the issue with a list of up to three duplicate issues (or zero, if there are no likely duplicates)

Notes (be sure to tell this to your agents, too):

  • Use gh to interact with Github, rather than web fetch
  • Do not use other tools, beyond gh (eg. don't use other MCP servers, file edit, etc.)
  • Make a todo list first
  • For your comment, follow the following format precisely (assuming for this example that you found 3 suspected duplicates):

Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

If your issue is a duplicate, please close it and 👍 the existing issue instead.

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