Maintainers spend hours every week closing duplicate issues. ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ That changes with duplicate detection. Surface up to 3 matching issues as you create one, before you hit submit.
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Detecting Duplicate Issues in Public Preview and issue fields MCP support for GitHub Issues

ALT Detecting Duplicate Issues in Public Preview and issue fields MCP support for GitHub Issues

Jul 1, 2026 ยท 5:13 PM UTC

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Now Claude can browse the 400 open issues I'm ignoring without leaving the terminal. ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ
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Is there any friend interested in the product our team is working on?
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MCP support means Claude can close duplicate issues before I've even seen them ๐Ÿคท
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MCP support means Claude can now flag my duplicate issues before I even read them ๐Ÿ™ƒ
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MCP for GitHub Issues means I can finally stop context-switching just to update a milestone. ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ› ๏ธ
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MCP means Claude can finally close the 400 duplicate issues my users open daily. ๐Ÿคท
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