skill-dedup
Find functional overlap between skills via description similarity and script pattern matching. Trigger: /skill-dedup
SKILL.mdskills/_meta/skill-dedup/SKILL.md
GitHub/skill-dedup
Detects skills that do similar things: same trigger domain, overlapping description keywords, identical script patterns.
PROTECTION RULE - never ~/.claude/
Read-only skill. Guard required if write mode added later.
What this is for
- Skills with overlapping purpose across clusters
- Skills that could be merged or deprecated
- Semantic duplication despite different trigger names
- Read-only skill. No code changes.
What You Must Do When Invoked
Step 1
-ProjectDir target
Step 2
Run collector: pairwise description Jaccard + script pattern overlap
Step 3
Report candidate pairs with overlap score
Step 4
Write skill-dedup-report.md
Usage
/skill-dedup # interactive
/skill-dedup <dir> # scan project
/skill-dedup -help
During analysis, assign a confidence level to each finding: proven (confirmed by evidence), likely (strong signal, needs review), or suspected (weak signal).