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duplicate-sweep

Find Linear issues reporting the same underlying bug, compare their evidence, and propose which issue to keep. After approval, transfer unique findings and relevant people’s details, then close duplicates with links to the surviving issue.

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Find and merge duplicate Linear issues — group reports of the same underlying bug, pick the survivor, and move the evidence across. Use when the backlog has grown noisy, someone asks whether an issue is already reported, or you are cleaning up before planning.

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Good for

  • Clean up duplicate bug reports in a backlog
  • Check whether a bug has already been reported
  • Consolidate reproduction steps and logs
  • Organize issues before planning

Overview

What it does

Searches Linear bug reports using several terms, such as error messages, feature names, and user descriptions, and includes closed issues in the review. It compares likely causes and evidence to identify potential duplicates. For each group, it proposes which issue to keep, giving priority to a useful reproduction and discussion over age alone. When the cause is uncertain, it links issues as related instead of merging them.

When it helps

Use it when reports are scattered across duplicate issues, when you need to check whether a bug has already been reported, or when organizing unresolved issues before planning. It helps bring relevant evidence together so investigations and decisions are easier to follow.

Example requests

  • “Find duplicate issues for this team and show me a proposed merge plan.”
  • “Check whether this bug has already been reported.”
  • “After I approve the groups, move the reproduction steps and logs to the issues we’re keeping.”

Notes

A Linear tool connection is required. Before making changes, the skill presents the issue to keep, the issues to merge, and the information to move, then waits for explicit approval. It transfers unique reproduction steps, customer details, logs, and requested subscriber information before closing duplicates with a comment linking to the surviving issue. It does not delete issues, and it reports candidates it leaves separate along with the reasons.

This overview was written by AI (OpenAI Codex) from the public SKILL.md. Check the original below for the exact behavior.

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SafetyAre sending data, deleting files, and running commands disclosed?
AGoodExplicit approval precedes writes; issues are preserved and details move before closure.
Easy setupDoes it need few tools or API keys, and are they documented?
BPartly lackingLinear MCP tools are required, but connection setup is not described.

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Sweep duplicates

Two issues for one bug means two people investigate it and neither sees the other's findings. The goal is one issue per underlying problem, holding everything anyone learned.

1. Search the way reporters write, not the way you think

The same bug gets filed as "export is broken", "CSV download 500s", and "can't get my data out". No shared vocabulary. Run several searches — the error string, the feature name, the user-facing verb — and pool the results rather than trusting one query.

Include closed issues. A closed one is not evidence the bug came back — triage closes far more issues than fixes do. Treat it as a regression only when the issue records a fix that shipped or was reopened; otherwise it is just another report of the same open problem.

2. Same symptom is not the same bug

Group only when the underlying cause is plausibly identical. Two issues that both say "page is slow" are the same report only if they are slow for the same reason; merging them buries whichever one nobody reproduced.

When you are unsure, link them as related and say why rather than merging. An incorrect merge loses an issue silently, and nobody goes looking for what they think is already tracked.

3. Pick the survivor deliberately

Not simply the oldest. Prefer the one with the best reproduction, then the most discussion, then the earliest. If the oldest is a one-line report and a later one has steps, logs, and three participants, the later one survives.

4. Confirm the groups before you touch anything

Show the user each group you intend to merge: the survivor, the issues folding into it, and what you will move across. Merging is destructive in the way that matters — an issue closed as a duplicate stops being found by the people watching it, and an incorrect merge is only discovered when someone re-reports the bug months later. Get an explicit go-ahead per group, or on the set if the user prefers, before the first write.

5. Move what matters before closing

Anything only present on the duplicate — reproduction steps, a customer name, a log line, a subscriber who wants to know when it is fixed — goes onto the survivor first. Then close the duplicate with a comment pointing at it, so someone arriving from a search or an old link lands somewhere useful.

Never delete. A closed issue with a pointer is how the next person's search finds the survivor.

6. Report

List each group: the survivor, what was merged into it, and what you moved across. Flag the pairs you deliberately did not merge and why — those are the judgment calls someone may want to overturn.

Anti-patterns

  • Merging by title similarity alone. Titles are the least reliable signal in a backlog.
  • Closing the duplicate first and copying the details afterwards. Interrupted halfway, the evidence is gone from anywhere anyone will look.
  • Sweeping silently. If someone is subscribed to an issue you closed, tell them where it went.

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