This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady

What I Built

The laziest comment in open source is four words long: “Duplicate of #1234.” Paste it, and GitHub links the two issues and closes the new one.

It is only lazy if you already know #1234 exists. In zed-industries/zed, maintainers have written it 1,653 times , and the issue they pointed to was filed a median of 1,343 issues (64 days) earlier . Nobody remembers that far back. So every duplicate is a search through a tracker with thousands of open issues, or a contributor fixing a bug that already has a thread, a workaround and a PR somewhere else.

Already Filed remembers for you. Point it at a GitHub repo and an open model, running in your browser tab, reads every open issue (and every one closed in the last 30 days), then lists the open issues that say the same thing as an earlier one. Each comes with the earlier issues it most resembles and a button that copies “Duplicate of #…”.…