Finding Duplicate-Intent Functions

Overview

LLM-generated codebases accumulate semantic duplicates: functions that serve the same purpose but were implemented independently. Classical copy-paste detectors (jscpd) find syntactic duplicates but miss "same intent, different implementation."

This skill uses a two-phase approach: classical extraction followed by LLM-powered intent clustering.

When to Use

• Codebase has grown organically with multiple contributors (human or LLM)
• You suspect utility functions have been reimplemented multiple times
• Before major refactoring to identify consolidation opportunities
• After jscpd has been run and syntactic duplicates are already handled

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