find-duplicates

find-duplicates is a skill for Claude Code from obsfx/trekker. It costs 21 tokens per session (403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A duplicate-checking workflow that searches Trekker before a new task is created.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking existing tasks, related work, and status-specific results before creating or linking work items.
Why use it?
It helps prevent multiple task records for the same issue or feature, using separate keyword searches when needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the trekker plugin — 7 skills, 13 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for checking existing tasks, related work, and status-specific results before creating or linking work items.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/obsfx/trekker/find-duplicates
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add obsfx/trekker --skill find-duplicates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/obsfx/trekker

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install trekker, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 13 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 403 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00403
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00161
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured yesterday against content hash 5d9a4f345a7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-duplicates scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/claude-code/skills/find-duplicates/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

CRITICAL: Search Before Creating ANY Task

You MUST search before creating any task.

trekker search "<task description you're about to create>"

When to Use (MANDATORY)

  • BEFORE creating ANY new task - non-negotiable
  • User reports issue - check if already tracked
  • Grooming backlog - find consolidation opportunities
  • Starting new feature - find related past work

IMPORTANT: FTS5 Search Tips

Search uses FTS5 (not semantic). Use single keywords for best recall:

  • Multi-word queries require ALL words present (AND logic = fewer results)
  • Search multiple times with different keywords

Commands

# Search with single keywords - try the most distinctive word
trekker search "authentication"
trekker search "login"

# Search specific type
trekker search "timeout" --type task

# Search by status
trekker search "performance" --status todo

MANDATORY Workflow

1. SEARCH: trekker search "<single keyword>" (try 2-3 keywords separately)
2. REVIEW results
3. DECIDE:
   - Found exact match: DO NOT create, update the existing task
   - Found related work: review carefully, it may need a link
   - No results: safe to create a new task
4. CREATE in Trekker FIRST (if no duplicate)
5. MIRROR to TodoWrite after

Anti-Patterns (DO NOT)

  • Creating task without searching first
  • Ignoring search results
  • Creating in TodoWrite without checking Trekker first

Trekker is Primary

Always:

  1. Check Trekker for duplicates FIRST
  2. Create in Trekker FIRST
  3. Then mirror to TodoWrite
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 66 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 5d9a4f345a7f

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find-duplicates is a skill published in the GitHub repository obsfx/trekker (84 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 403 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-25.