multi: add issue dedupe command and workflow

- add /dedupe command definition for Claude Code
- add workflow to run dedupe on issue opened
- add comment helper script for posting duplicates
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---
allowed-tools: Bash(gh issue view:*), Bash(gh search:*), Bash(gh issue list:*), 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:
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 #2
4. Next, feed the results from #2 and #3 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.
5. Finally, use the comment script to post duplicates:
```
./scripts/comment-on-duplicates.sh --base-issue <issue-number> --potential-duplicates <dup1> <dup2> <dup3>
```
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` and the comment script (eg. don't use other MCP servers, file edit, etc.)
- Make a todo list first

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name: Claude Issue Dedupe
description: Automatically dedupe GitHub issues using Claude Code
on:
issues:
types: [opened]
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
issue_number:
description: 'Issue number to process for duplicate detection'
required: true
type: string
jobs:
claude-dedupe-issues:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 10
permissions:
contents: read
issues: write
id-token: write
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Run Claude Code slash command
uses: anthropics/claude-code-action@v1
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
allowed_non_write_users: "*"
prompt: "/dedupe ${{ github.repository }}/issues/${{ github.event.issue.number || inputs.issue_number }}"
claude_code_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN }}

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Comments on a GitHub issue with a list of potential duplicates.
# Usage: ./comment-on-duplicates.sh --base-issue 123 --potential-duplicates 456 789 101
#
set -euo pipefail
REPO="${GITHUB_REPOSITORY:-lightningnetwork/lnd}"
BASE_ISSUE=""
DUPLICATES=()
# Parse arguments
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
case $1 in
--base-issue)
BASE_ISSUE="$2"
shift 2
;;
--potential-duplicates)
shift
while [[ $# -gt 0 && ! "$1" =~ ^-- ]]; do
DUPLICATES+=("$1")
shift
done
;;
*)
echo "Unknown option: $1" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
done
# Validate base issue
if [[ -z "$BASE_ISSUE" ]]; then
echo "Error: --base-issue is required" >&2
exit 1
fi
if ! [[ "$BASE_ISSUE" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
echo "Error: --base-issue must be a number, got: $BASE_ISSUE" >&2
exit 1
fi
# Validate duplicates
if [[ ${#DUPLICATES[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "Error: --potential-duplicates requires at least one issue number" >&2
exit 1
fi
if [[ ${#DUPLICATES[@]} -gt 3 ]]; then
echo "Error: --potential-duplicates accepts at most 3 issues" >&2
exit 1
fi
for dup in "${DUPLICATES[@]}"; do
if ! [[ "$dup" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
echo "Error: duplicate issue must be a number, got: $dup" >&2
exit 1
fi
done
# Validate that base issue exists
if ! gh issue view "$BASE_ISSUE" --repo "$REPO" &>/dev/null; then
echo "Error: issue #$BASE_ISSUE does not exist in $REPO" >&2
exit 1
fi
# Validate that all duplicate issues exist
for dup in "${DUPLICATES[@]}"; do
if ! gh issue view "$dup" --repo "$REPO" &>/dev/null; then
echo "Error: issue #$dup does not exist in $REPO" >&2
exit 1
fi
done
# Build comment body
COUNT=${#DUPLICATES[@]}
if [[ $COUNT -eq 1 ]]; then
HEADER="Found 1 possible duplicate issue:"
else
HEADER="Found $COUNT possible duplicate issues:"
fi
BODY="$HEADER"$'\n\n'
INDEX=1
for dup in "${DUPLICATES[@]}"; do
BODY+="$INDEX. https://github.com/$REPO/issues/$dup"$'\n'
((INDEX++))
done
BODY+=$'\n'"If this issue is a duplicate, please close it and 👍 the existing issue instead."$'\n\n'
BODY+="🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code)"
# Post the comment
gh issue comment "$BASE_ISSUE" --repo "$REPO" --body "$BODY"
echo "Posted duplicate comment on issue #$BASE_ISSUE"