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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions .claude/commands/dedupe.md
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Expand Up @@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ Notes (be sure to tell this to your agents, too):
- `./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.sh` and the comment script (eg. don't use other MCP servers, file edit, etc.)
- Run every agent in the foreground and wait for its result before the next step

@marcindulak marcindulak Nov 3, 2026

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How often the agent backgrounding happens?

Could this be one of the reasons for the lack of duplicates listing described in #79523?

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Another issue with issue deduplication workflow is how agents handle its logic - there are still cases when issues are closed as duplicates of each other, see #19267.

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This step;

  1. Then, launch 5 parallel agents ...

located in the file above the current change, instructs to launch parallel agents - is this possible in the environment of that workflow?

3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions .github/workflows/claude-dedupe-issues.yml
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Expand Up @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ jobs:
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
CLAUDE_CODE_SCRIPT_CAPS: '{"comment-on-duplicates.sh":1}'
# The action stops at Claude's first result, which would cut off an agent
# still running in the background.
CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BACKGROUND_TASKS: '1'
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
allowed_non_write_users: "*"
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