The detector fires on issue edits and posts a fresh notice each time, so the sweep now counts replies from the first notice on and a thumbs down on any notice
The merged detector's 0.6 flag threshold had become the close bar, and 6 of the 7 real flagged pairs at 85% or more were not duplicates. The sweep now closes only when an older open issue has the identical normalized title, measures the grace period from the latest bot notice, and leaves the issue open when anyone replies or gives the notice a thumbs down.
A reporter cannot reopen an issue the bot closed, so a reporter comment after the automatic close reopens it, drops the duplicate label, and asks for a human look. Manual dispatch defaults to a dry run and takes a grace_period_days input, the runner supplies the repository, the dead python closer is gone, and the decision core has bun tests on a PR-triggered job.
