dedupe
Find duplicate GitHub issues
Install / Use
npx skills add anthropics/claude-codeInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
Claude Commands
Claude Code slash commands
Quality Score
Category
Development & EngineeringSupported Platforms
Our assessment of dedupe
dedupe scores 58/100 on our quality scale, 4149th of 4,617 Development & Engineering skills we index.
Its Claude Commands is 1.7 KB long, written without headings and no code examples: moderately detailed.
With 154,655 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 2 days ago, so dedupe is actively maintained.
- Our last check on 2026-10-17 found the source still online.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 88/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
Safety scan
No issues foundOur scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful.
AI review by kimi-k2.7-code on 2026-09-24. Automated pattern scan on 2026-09-24. It catches known dangerous patterns, not every risk — read a skill before letting an agent act on it.
dedupe compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than dedupe; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dedupe (this skill)by anthropics | 58 | 154.7k | 2d ago | Claude Commands |
| claude-memby thedotmack | 100 | 113.5k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| taste-skillby Leonxlnx | 100 | 110.6k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 109.2k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| Understand-Anythingby Egonex-AI | 100 | 90.9k | 10d ago | CLAUDE.md |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install dedupe?
- Run
npx skills add anthropics/claude-code. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does dedupe work with?
- It is written for Claude Code, as a Claude Commands file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is dedupe safe to use?
- Our scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful. It declares no license and scores 88/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is dedupe still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 2 days ago, so dedupe is actively maintained.
Skill content
View source on GitHuballowed-tools: Bash(./scripts/gh.sh:), Bash(./scripts/comment-on-duplicates.sh:) description: Find duplicate GitHub issues
Find up to 3 likely duplicate issues for a given GitHub issue.
To do this, follow these steps precisely:
- 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.
- Use an agent to view a Github issue, and ask the agent to return a summary of the issue
- Then, launch 5 parallel agents to search Github for duplicates of this issue, using diverse keywords and search approaches, using the summary from #1
- 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. If there are no duplicates remaining, do not proceed.
- Finally, use the comment script to post duplicates:
./scripts/comment-on-duplicates.sh --potential-duplicates <dup1> <dup2> <dup3>
Notes (be sure to tell this to your agents, too):
- Use
./scripts/gh.shto interact with Github, rather than web fetch or rawgh. Examples:./scripts/gh.sh issue view 123— view an issue./scripts/gh.sh issue view 123 --comments— view with comments./scripts/gh.sh issue list --state open --limit 20— list issues./scripts/gh.sh search issues "query" --limit 10— search for issues
- Do not use other tools, beyond
./scripts/gh.shand the comment script (eg. don't use other MCP servers, file edit, etc.) - Make a todo list first
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.