[joaquim-verges]

Closes #171

When an issue is filed first and its fix is verified later, the publisher sees the item's own issue under "already on GitHub", and its prompt says to skip anything listed there. It skips with "Duplicate of #", the fix never becomes a PR, and the stored skip hides it from later runs. A dry run has no GitHub list, which is why it drafted the same PR correctly.

Change

• list_items and view_item name the item's own issue and say the PR closes it.
• The publisher prompt says a PR item's own issue never counts as a duplicate.
• skip refuses a PR item when the reason cites its own issue, so this no longer depends on the model following the prompt.

Skipping a verified fix for another reason, such as a different PR that already covers it, stays allowed and is not reported as a failed publish. The issue suggested that as an option, and I left it out because those skips can be correct.

Verification

• Traced from a real publish session: list_items showed the verified fix, and the next action was skip with "Duplicate of" its own issue.
• The new case in publish.test.ts calls skip with the item's own issue, expects a refusal, and expects the PR to go through. It fails on its own assertion with the guard removed.
• pnpm typecheck, pnpm lint, pnpm knip and the packages/agents tests pass.
• Items already holding a stored skip stay skipped until someone clears it.

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[github-actions]

Bugpatrol review: fixture-app

No problem introduced · tested 29ef927 against main bf735dc

Tested

• Fixture Home page
• Fixture Settings page

Not tested

• The rest of the change (packages/agents publisher prompt, list_items, skip guard): outside the fixture app

_{Updated on each push. Tests only what the diff can affect. Does not block the merge.}

[github-actions]

Bugpatrol review: dashboard

No problem introduced · tested 29ef927 against main bf735dc

Tested

• Overview dashboard loads with stats, needs-attention list, live session
• Issue detail for 'Save button overlaps account text' loads with fix, diff, attempts

Not tested

• The rest of the change (publisher prompts/skip guard in packages/agents): Agent logic outside the dashboard; not rendered by this app

_{Updated on each push. Tests only what the diff can affect. Does not block the merge.}

[github-actions]

Bugpatrol review: cli

No problem introduced · tested 29ef927 against main bf735dc

Tested

• bugpatrol --help output
• issue list (fixture issues render normally)
• issue show iss-settings
• memory list
• fixture routines dir: only open-home/open-settings, no publish routine

Not tested

• publisher skip guard, own-issue notes in list_items/view_item, and prompt (packages/agents/src/roles/publish.ts, prompts.ts): publisher code only runs via bugpatrol publish, which the app guide forbids
• publish.test.ts new case: tests are not the app

_{Updated on each push. Tests only what the diff can affect. Does not block the merge.}

[merge-loop]

Merged as 6d26970.