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pm files and docs duplicate add reports changed true after deduplication #867
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Summary\n\nRe-adding an existing linked artifact with the same path and scope enters the mutation path and returns changed: true, even though deduplication preserves the existing entry. A different note is silently ignored, so the reported change does not correspond to final item state.\n\n## Evidence\n\nGiven an existing project-scoped file link with note A, adding the same path and scope with note B returned changed: true while the resulting entry still contained note A. The SDK intentionally ignores duplicate path and scope additions, but the CLI path reports changed after any add, remove, or migrate request.\n\n## Expected\n\nIf normalized artifacts equal the current array, return changed: false and avoid a no-op history mutation. If note replacement is desired, require an explicit upsert or update flag rather than claiming an implicit change.\n\n## Duplicate search\n\nSearched all open and closed issues and the full issue corpus for no-op changed true, idempotent changed false files, duplicate linked file changed, deduplicated add changed, and related terms. Closed #170 added standalone notes for new links and does not cover false changed reporting.
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coderabbitai commentedon Aug 2, 2026
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unbraind commentedon Aug 2, 2026
Tracked in pm item pm-jb1ron. This issue is included in the active SDK/CLI context-integrity delivery bundle.