Duplicate issue detection and labelling

[aniket866]

Problem: Contributors must manually search through many existing issues before creating a new one, which is time-consuming and often leads to duplicate reports.

How: Add automated duplicate detection using a GitHub bot (semantic matching) and a lightweight GitHub Action to flag similar existing issues on creation.

Impact: it will mark that issue duplicate so that maintainer don't have to waste too much time

@M4dhav Please feel free to assign

[KarthikChowdary07]

Hi @M4dhav ,

I’m interested in working on the “Duplicate issue detection and labelling” issue for Resonate.

I’m exploring an approach using a GitHub Action that compares new issue titles/descriptions with existing open issues (using keyword similarity / lightweight NLP) and automatically applies a duplicate label when a match is detected.

Before starting, I wanted to confirm:

1. Is a GitHub Actions–based solution acceptable?
2. Should the workflow only label duplicates, or also comment/close them?

I’d be happy to start with a simple, transparent solution and improve it incrementally.

Thanks!