`code_duplication`

Code Duplication — a PullGuard finding type. Findings of this type appear in the PR comment, Step Summary, SARIF (GitHub Security tab / IDE viewers), and the HTML report, each with severity, location, and the remediation guidance below.

How to fix

Extract duplicated code into a shared function medium effort

// Before: same 10 lines copy-pasted in 3 files
// After: extract to a shared utility
// src/utils/format-response.ts
export function formatResponse(data, status) {
  return { data, status, timestamp: Date.now() };
}

Use jscpd to find all duplicates trivial effort

npx jscpd --min-lines 5 --min-tokens 50 src/

Triage

Suppress a confirmed non-issue with a committed .pullguardignore entry (pullguard ignore locally, or comment /pullguard ignore <fingerprint> <reason> on the PR — the fingerprint is printed in the PR comment’s Triage section). Entries support expiresAt for time-boxed snoozes.

Security findings at major or critical severity — and any critical finding — always surface: .pullguardignore cannot hide them. The reviewed paths that keep them visible are acknowledged (reviewed, stays in reports) and, for a confirmed false positive, a reasoned false_positive entry — visible and audited, excluded only from the merge block.