How does the skill decide which issue is the 'primary' one?

The skill typically favors the older issue to maintain history, but will prioritize a newer issue if it has significantly higher community engagement, such as more votes, watchers, or higher quality discussion.

Does it handle issues that were previously closed?

The skill includes a critical safety check for closed issues. If newer reports suggest a problem still exists, it will avoid duplicating into a closed ticket and instead suggest reopening it or maintaining a new primary issue.

Will this skill accidentally hide issues reported by specific customers?

No. The skill includes a strict rule to never mark issues as duplicates if they contain customer-related tags, ensuring that unique client relationships are tracked individually.

What happens to the logs and screenshots on a duplicated issue?

Before marking an issue as a duplicate, the skill analyzes it for unique information. Any valuable data like logs, environment details, or reproduction steps are summarized and transferred to the primary issue.

YouTrack Issues Deduplication

Name: YouTrack Issues Deduplication
Author: JetBrains

byJetBrains

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Collaboration Tools

Streamlines issue tracking by identifying, consolidating, and merging duplicate bug reports in YouTrack while preserving critical technical data.

About

This skill transforms Claude into an issue tracker specialist for the IdeaVim project, providing a structured approach to managing YouTrack tickets. It implements sophisticated logic to determine which issues should remain primary based on age and community engagement, ensures that customer-specific issues remain independent for tracking purposes, and prevents the loss of technical details by transferring unique logs and reproduction steps during the merge process. By enforcing a star-topology for links and generating courteous reporter notifications, it maintains a clean, professional, and highly organized development backlog.

Key Features

Standardized star-topology linking for cleaner issue relationships
Customer tag protection to prevent merging of sensitive client reports
10,119 GitHub stars
Automated data preservation for unique logs and reproduction steps
Regression validation to prevent deduplication into incorrectly closed issues
Intelligent primary issue selection using age and engagement metrics

Use Cases

Cleaning up legacy backlogs by linking stale reports to active discussions
Organizing technical debt by merging related symptoms into root-cause issues
Consolidating high volumes of redundant bug reports into a single source of truth

About

Key Features

Standardized star-topology linking for cleaner issue relationships
Customer tag protection to prevent merging of sensitive client reports
10,119 GitHub stars
Automated data preservation for unique logs and reproduction steps
Regression validation to prevent deduplication into incorrectly closed issues
Intelligent primary issue selection using age and engagement metrics

Use Cases

Cleaning up legacy backlogs by linking stale reports to active discussions
Organizing technical debt by merging related symptoms into root-cause issues
Consolidating high volumes of redundant bug reports into a single source of truth