name: Check Duplicate Issues # Flagging only. "Auto-close duplicate issues" closes a flagged issue 3 days later, # and only when its title is identical to an older open issue and nobody replied. # The HTML marker below is the handshake between the two, so keep it in the template. on: issues: types: [opened, edited] permissions: {} jobs: check-duplicate: runs-on: ubuntu-latest timeout-minutes: 5 permissions: issues: write contents: read steps: - name: Check for potential duplicates uses: wow-actions/potential-duplicates@4d4ea0352e0383859279938e255179dd1dbb67b5 # v1.1.0 with: GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} label: potential-duplicate threshold: 0.6 reaction: eyes comment: | **Potential duplicate detected** This looks similar to: {{#issues}} - #{{number}} - {{title}} {{/issues}} If this is a duplicate, add a thumbs-up reaction to the existing issue and follow along there. When the title is identical to an older open issue, this issue closes automatically in 3 days unless someone responds. If it is not a duplicate, comment here or add a thumbs-down reaction to this comment and it stays open.