What problem does it solve? Autonomous bug-fixing pipelines waste effort and create duplicate work when they attempt to fix issues that are already resolved, already claimed by another contributor, already covered by an open pull request, or not actually bugs. This Skill acts as a read-only triage gate that stops the chain early in those cases. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Duplicate and in-flight detection: Searches open and closed PRs plus base-branch commit history for references to the issue, stopping the chain when a fix already exists. - Claim and lock awareness: Reads assignees, in-progress labels, and robot claim comments (with stale-lock windows) to avoid colliding with work owned by another actor. - Bug validity check: Briefly inspects the affected code path or tests to confirm the reported behavior is a genuine defect rather than intended behavior or a usage error. - Use Case: A flow runner checks out a repo on an isolated branch for issue #1234; this Skill fetches the issue, finds an open PR already referencing it, and emits the NO_ACTION_NEEDED token so no later fix steps run. ## Quick Start Run the ot-verify-in-repo skill with issue number 1234 to decide whether the autofix chain should proceed or stop.
