the scanner is finding the same issues multiple times even after the copilot PR is applied.

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, typescript
Domain
accessibility, tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the attached “multiple issues for the same finding.docx” and reproducing the scanner behavior described there. Trace the existing handling of findings, GitHub issues, and pull requests across a run; done means one finding is not duplicated and already applied and merged issues or PRs are not reopened.

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Description

I tried to document my findings for this, hopefully it makes sense. The short version is that the scanner is opening multiple issues for the same finding in a single run, and is also reopening the same issues/prs even though they have already been applied and merged.

multiple issues for the same finding.docx

Dominant language
TypeScript
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374
Forks
42
Avg merge
1d 9h
Merged PRs (30d)
10

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